I'm recording a CD solo folksong CD on my 'puter. I'm using Goldwave to record, and have so far been trying MusicMatch to burn to the CD.

There are two or maybe three problems:

My experimental CD does not start playing when inserted. I've seen references somewhere on the web about a signal or characteristic that needs to be put at the beginnning, and I don't see any reference to any such thing in either Goldwave or MusicMatch. The computer doesn't seem to recognize there is a CD in the drive.

How do I set up the various songs so that the CD "plays through" from one song to the next, but is recognized by programs as separate tracks? I had thought one had to cut and paste to make one large file, which will indeed play through, but it doesn't recognize the material as separate tracks if I do that.

Do I need something more heavyweight than MusicMatch to do the autoexecute characteristic and/or the recognizable play-through tracks? Or am I just overlooking functions that I have with these programs?

Dave Oesterreich