ripping cd into one continuous track

[Wuming]

is there any way to rip a cd such that all the tracks of the cd becomes one single mp3 file? this would be particularly useful if the cd is a dance cd whose tracks are continuous and each track mixes into its following track.

 

[Cyph3r]

Usually on CD's where the music seems to flow from one track to another, they just get rid of the GAP between the tracks. So that makes it seem like the music just keeps going on for ever. To that end, what you could do is rip all the tracks into multiple MP3's, then decode them all in WAV's and then simply use a Wav Editor and attach them all together. Save that huge WAV, and then re-encode it to a MP3.

I haven't come across a software that allows you to do this on the fly..but this is what I'd do..

Though to put together 10 or so 50+ mb WAV's into one 500+ MB WAV file is gonna take a serious machine..Regards

 

[Gorgonzola]

it would be much easier to use EasyCD's digital audio extraction. instead of letting it "generate filenames automatically", just type in the name that you want the file to be. then when it has finished ripping it to .wav, use MusicMatch (or similar) to encode it into mp3. just about any computer could do this.

 

[cloudchief]

You can do what you want With EAC/LAME. Set up EAC to extract and encode mp3's following directions here
and here. Once you've done that, pick action/copy range, if you put the start and finish at the begining
and end of your cd you will get a copy of the cd as one large mp3 with gaps or no gaps between tracks, whichever way the original cd was.