Posted by Peterson on 03/30/06 08:46

<googlemail2003@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I'm trying to copy my cassette tapes to CD using Music Match. I cannot
> get it to recognize when one song ends and another begins. What is
> happening is it is copying each side as one long track.
>
> I have enabled the Auto Song Detect feature and have tried setting the
> Gap Length at 750, 900, 1100 and 2000 without success. It stills
> copies everything as one long track.
>
> Help!!
>

I would imagine that your problem with the song spaces getting noticed has
everything to do with your source being a tape, as opposed to a CD. The
program is listening for a period of silence; the tape playback has
apparently too much noise (slight hiss -- these things can be sensitive).

I once had a component burner that would give me the same sort of fits --
even with cds when I recorded them via analog RCA cables. My solution there
was an optical cable, but that won't help a tape.

I would think you have two options -- either record the tracks one by one,
either by starting and stopping manually, or taping the tracks individually
on another tape before recording them to the computer (though I haven't
found a tape deck in at least a decade that still copied directly and wasn't
shot out); or by taking your one big long track and splitting them up with
an audio editor. I can't tell you which one will do this, but failing a
simple google hunt, I'm sure some of the techheads 'round here will tell ya.

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