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WAVELAB
Preparing a Basic Audio CD 17 – 359
About relations between markers in a file
To understand how CD markers relate to the items in the Basic Audio
CD, please read the following:
• A track in the Basic Audio CD is defined by a track start or track splice marker in
the actual audio file! Delete the track start/splice marker, and the track item van-
ishes from the list! Also, edit the track start or end position, and the change is re-
flected in all Basic Audio CDs that include this track.
• Just because you create the markers for it, this does not mean the track will be
added to a Basic Audio CD window. You have to do this “manually”, using drag
and drop to the desired Basic Audio CD(s). As a matter of fact, you can have sev-
eral tracks defined in a single audio file, but still decide to only use one or a few of
them in a Basic Audio CD.
• Whenever you create a track start marker, WaveLab will automatically create a
track end marker at the start of the next track or at the end of the file, whichever
occurs first. It’s then up to you to adjust the position of that end marker if you like.
• WaveLab does not allow tracks that start but have no end. Neither will it allow
overlapping or nested tracks (tracks inside tracks). If you try to move track mark-
ers to invalid places (beyond the end of the file, to a position inside another track,
etc.), WaveLab will automatically reorganize the markers to a valid configuration.
• The track splice marker indicates the end of one track and the start of another. In
other words, it's a combined start and end marker. If you drop a start marker after
another start marker, it will automatically convert into a splice marker since you
can't have two starts after each other without an end between them.
• If you use one file in multiple Basic Audio CDs, beware that any changes you
make to the audio file will be reflected in all Basic Audio CDs!
• Sub-index markers can be added between starts and ends as required. The only
limitation is that there can only be 98 sub-index markers per track. You can’t in-
sert a sub-index outside a CD track. If you move a sub-index out of a CD track, it
is deleted.
• Whenever you insert a sub-index, its position is quantized to a CD frame (1/75th
of a second, or 588 audio frames) relative to the track start. If you move the CD
track start marker, all sub-index markers will need to be re-quantized. You will be
warned about this via an alert box. This is usually not a problem, since you will nor-
mally only start defining sub-indexes once your start and end points have been
established.