Cutting up a Set into its individual tracks

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Cutting up a Set into its individual tracks

I have to start with an apology for bothering anyone here, but I legitmately exhausted all search efforts on DJTTs. I even scrolled through every home page article to see if I could find what I was looking for (there were a lot, I might have missed it).

Im looking to cut up my set into its individual tracks to make it easy to navigate through my set. So basically a mixtape!

I have to get it done tonight, so I really appreciate any responses to this.

-PL>Y

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like the first result in google

http://techie-buzz.com/how-to/split-large-mp3-separate-tracks.html

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Garage Band if your on a mac. Can Audacity to chapters? Probably worth checking out.

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I don’t normally trust the first thing that Google pops up

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if you trust reading you will find that article has your info. seems you need to make a cue sheet for said mix.

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^^^ Cue sheets for sure. There’s a tiny learning curve to figure out the coding, but it’s not hard to get the hold of it. A little time consuming, thought.

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I hate when people record the whole thing in a single track when it’s an album.

Case in point DJ Marky - The Brazilian Job. I got this several years ago as a single track and it’s a bummer they recorded it like that.

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if you burn it to cd, most softwares can mark and cut the tracks for you

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Why not?

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because it’s easier to make others look for you :roll_eyes:

that and Google is evil, pure evil.

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yeah it is, someone once made me type in ‘blue waffle’… can’t believe what google came up with :eek:

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before anyone does, DON’T. I ain’t fallin for that shit!

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lol, wonder if my son knows about that?

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works best if you click the ‘i’m feeling lucky’ button - ironically

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back on topic…

isn’t there a hotkey command in traktor to split a recording? similar to it creating a new file after a pre-set file size?
if so, when you’re recording you could have a key mapped to that and hit everytime you’re on a new track, and therefore split it as you go? think there’s an option for doing this on the crossfader to, but if you like to get fader happy that could result in millions of files…

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Man just re-record your whole mix in traktor. Make some minor edits along the way where necessary and set markers to areas where you want to cut the track on the downbeats. There is a “CUT” button in the traktor recorder. As long as you don’t miss where the downbeat is. Its as easy as 1-2-3-4.

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Hey guys,

Thank you all for the responses. @completej, thanks for helping me find a good splitting program.

Basically what I’m looking for is a way to find out the MM:SS:FR of my individual tracks (so minutes, seconds, and frames). I was trying to figure out how to display it with Audacity and Ableton, and I couldn’t figure it out. Once I have this info, I can write up my cue sheet.

Anyone know what software I can get this info with?

-PL>Y

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Shiiit dude…

I was planning on having an ‘EVENING’ with the missus tonight…not so sure anymore.

:eek:

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bump

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Using audacity or peak pro:

Starting at the end of a mix i would “cut” the last track off and create a new file and call it “Z”. that way you know it is the last track… then cut the next track and call it “Y” and work backwards etc.

Then wack them all in itunes, click burn icon and make sure in preferences that you have audio gap set to 0 seconds…

that’s how i do it… didn’t read the link if there is a better way, probably there is :slight_smile: