advice needed from techo whizzes (making a CD)

[Claw75]

Hi folks,

I need to put together a CD of a few tracks, and for a couple of them I'd like to mix up a few songs together.  I don't even really know where to start.  If anyone could help, or recommend some free idiot-friendly software, that'd be just super

tyty

[Graham C]

I'm not sure about mixing songs together, you may need some dj program for that.   There's a few about but you can record CD's with no gaps between the songs if that's good enough?

For making a CD, there's plenty of easy ways.  I tend to do mine in iTunes (just because I use it from time to time), you can make a play list by dragging the songs into it then simply right click and create a CD.  I'm sure it's pretty simple in Windows Media player too which you should have installed on your computer already.

Is copying a playlist to a media device (iPod, your phone, iPad, computer etc) and putting it through speakers not an option?

[Jon MW]

I think Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) covers what you want plus a bit.

I haven't done that much on it though, so I don't 'really' know how easy it is to use.

[KarmaDope]

Easier said than done depending on what you mean by mixing songs together.

You need professional software to strip lyrics out of music for example I believe. Audacity can help but doesn't go very deep.

[Claw75]

thanks folks - I'm not too bothered about seamless mixing, but what I really want to do is get several groups of songs together on an audio CD, but have the continuous groups of songs listed as single tracks. Will take a look at Audacity - cheers Jon.