How to Customize a Music CD Burn With Crossfade & Playback Mixing
- 1). Download and install a music-editing program with a decent list of effects. Good choices are Audacity or Adobe Audition.
- 2). Drag and drop your music tracks into the sound-editing program in the order you'd like them to appear on the finished CD.
- 3). Use the program's built-in "crossfade" or "mix" features to do what you like to the songs.
Crossfade allows you to fade out one song while fading in another, and mixing enables you to actually beatmatch and splice two songs together. - 4). Mix the songs into one or more long, adjusted tracks complete with mixing and crossfade.
For a nonstop, highly edited party CD, you'll most likely want to crossfade most songs together into a single, unbroken musical track. For a CD where you'd like to skip around to find your favorites, you'll want to create multiple tracks. Both of these features are built into any editing software. - 5). Export your finished music track(s) as MP3 files by clicking "export" in the "file" menu, and then burn them to CD.
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