cd burning program---is Roxio the best?

[ratioci nation]

Originally posted by mark e smith:
  Yep, Itunes, if you play around with it for about 2 minutes, will do all of that. Besides, it is free. What have you got to lose?
 
 You just have to import the tracks into compressed format and select volume normalisation in the preferences somewhere.

I don't think it will let you change the time between tracks per song, only the time between all songs.

[markie]

Originally posted by pollard:
  I don't think it will let you change the time between tracks per song, only the time between all songs.

Yeah, your right. I only skimmed FOGC grumblings. I am tired of defending itunes.

[ggw]

Plus Macs get trojan horses now too.
 
 http://www.intego.com/news/pr40.html

[markie]

itunes runs on bland beige boxes too, plus:
 
 http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,63000,00.html

[kosmo vinyl]

i would recommend you check out the cd burning audio mixing products at  Acoustica i briefly used the mp3 mixing software and found it very powerful and easy to use verses most of the bpm matching mixing programs out there.  if you are looking for a bpm mixing program there are probably better options.
 
 personally, i don't beat mix any of my cds and found the acoustica product allowed me to quickly create a mixed with custom cross fades etc.  it's a bit like using a word processor where you cut and paste the songs you are mixing into a document , edit them and same them out as a mixed file.  it's also leaves the source files intact, non destructive editing.
 
 if i had a more powerful pc i'd exclusively use this sw, but unfortunately the budget dosen't allow for a new pc, so i'm using the Roxio Toast/Jam combo and kosmettes G4 Mac.  It produces great sounding mix cds, but not quite as easy to use as the Acoustica product.  
 
 vansmack has made use of the acoustica product based on my recommendation...

[ggw]

Originally posted by mark e smith:
 http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,63000,00.html

Wow -- Mac users jumping up to the defense of Macs
 
 Who woulda thunk it?
 
 [/sarc]

[kosmo vinyl]

plus it's free to try and with the burner sw you get the ability to set the gap, can't remember about the normalization feature

[Justin Tonation]

Golden Hawk's  CDRWIN . It let's you do almost anything.
 
 And it has drag-n-drop if you need that type of thing....

[Richard D Taylor]

Thanks for all the suggestions & help. Kosmo, I think I'll be looking into the Acoustica program. I checked out the website and it sounds amazing...

[kosmo vinyl]

hope it works out for you... it's a shame it hasn't be ported to osx.  i'm however excited by the fact that the new version of jam is included in the bias peak sw.

[vansmack]

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
  vansmack has made use of the acoustica product based on my recommendation...

I'm taking Markie's approach - as much as he's tired of defending it, I'm tired of slamming it.  To each her own, there is no perfect program to do everything you want....
 
 I will, however, jump at the chance to defend Acoustica.  A fantastic program for mixing your own tracks, fading songs, and adjusting/customizing volumes.  Probably the best $25 I spent last year.

I defend Anacostia program too!