Trouble converting a CD to mp3 format (too many little chunks)

[Broohaha]

I recently purchased a 16-volume speech that is spread out over 30 days worth of CDs. Since I prefer to listen to them on my mp3 player, I'd like to change each CD to mp3 format. But when I pop each CD in, according to windows explorer, each is made up of something like 40 tracks [Track01.cda, Track02.cda, Track03.cda, etc.] each of which is listed as being 1 kb in size (Type: Winamp Media File).
When I put them all into my winamp playlist, they are listed as being anywhere from 26 second long to 5 minutes long. So I guess all together, they comprise the entire track whcih could be listened to seamlessly on a CD player.
Does anybody know how I can take all these different chunks and convert them to mp3 format as one big, seamless file? Thanks.

 

[Hessakia]

in a round about way, you could use EZ CD Creator (or nero i believe) and put all the MP3s in consecutive order onto a music CD, but before burning, MERGE the tracks together, for one huge seemless CDA track, then burn it (or make a CD Image and use a program to display it as a CD (Daemon tools is great for this), and then re-rip the new CDA Track from the CD as MP3, and you'll have one long continuous MP3


if you choose to burn them, make sure you use RW's so you don't waste any CDs.


Hess.

 

[Workin']

I'm pretty sure EAC or CDEX (do a Google search for them) will rip multiple tracks into a single file. Then use LAME to convert the file to mp3.