Burning long lengths of silence to CD....SOLVED

Just a shot in the dark here.  My wife, The Bear, just got back from some crystal gazing, mantra intoning, yert dwelling week of "meditation" in the Rockies.  Now, she's asked me to make two CDs (a short set and a long set) that is basically long intervals of silence punctuated by either temple bell, gong or rainstick.  Which I did.  Since damn X3 wont let you copy empty measures I had to actually use an audio track to record some silence and then copy paste that to the appropriate lengths and then insert my "noises" at the appropriate times.  No probs.
 
Only no matter what burner I use or how I divide it up...it won't burn properly.  The rendered wave files play fine in windows media player and on any other device.  But every CD I've tried to burn is just distorted noise.  Any suggestions.  I'm not used to recording "nothing".  I figure it has everything to do with the silent gaps. 
 
 
go to last post for answer:-)
 
 
 

 
Just an idea 'Ol Pal...
 
In your CD burning software, add each sound as a separate track.
 
In the burning options window, see if you can prescribe the length of the 'Pause' between tracks.
 
I usually use Nero to create my CDs, and it gives you the option to select the pause length individually after each track, or to speed the process up, you can select multiple tracks and apply the same pause to all of them.
 
For example, here I've selected nine tracks and set the pause value at 300 seconds:
 

 
 

Some say all I should record is silence.
 
I lurves you anyway Straummy.

yorolpal
Why can't Pork Barbecue be part of this equation??

That's part of post-production I believe... 

Why am I salivating all of a sudden??

Hi,
 
Hmmmm ... maybe it is time to go back and use the plain old Teac's!
 
If a DAW is interfering with "silence" or anything, then it is BAD CODE and STUPID! No wonder no one can do the 3AM at the Okefanokee Swamp anymore ... gotta have that screwed up stick counting on the floor yet again.
 
You guys gotta help tell these daws to stop being a CLOCK. You don't need a clock!

Nope Architect needs red book pq codes which apparently won't let you write that length of silence. The odd thing is that the wave files will play just fine.

Yup...that's my next try. Plus both the Bear and I prefer "martini meditation" too:-)

Does your CD player have a "normalize" function? Some players are designed to avoid sudden changes in volume, and an attempt to normalize a lot of zero bits might create noise. Some players that have this capability have it as an option you can turn off. Have you tried saving your silence as part of an MP3 and playing it from an MP3 player?

Who knew that NOT making music could be so hard??? 

 
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SteveStrummerUK
 
As to the conundrum at hand, my method will definitely work because you are actually writing the length of the inter-track pauses into the architecture of the disc.
 

 
 You have absolutely no feckin' idea what any of that means, do you fatboy?

Then please move your clothes to the lower peg...unless you have a permission slip...in which case put your clothes in your gym bag and put the "available" hang tag on the lower peg. Then wait for an older boy or proctor to drop by your cubicle and give you a Dutch rubby bubby.

My DAW is elsewhere, but I just tried doing what you describe using Audacity timed recording with no input to make a 35 minute clip, imported a cowbell wave file and cut and pasted at 10 minutes and 34 minutes into the silent clip. Then exported to a wave file, dragged the wave into the burn list pane of windows media player 12 and burned as an audio CD from WMP. The resulting audio plays as expected with silence until the cowbell is reached on a boom box and a DVD player. I am at a loss as to why you are getting noise on your CD.