Separate Tracks 1st Time Every Time DAK Track Tracker

Easy Automatic Track Splitting

Drew's Tutorial
Track Tracker - The New Technology
Separate Tracks - 1st Time Every Time

Instantly and effortlessly turn your recorded side of an LP, Cassette, Open Reel tapes or an hour of Internet Streaming Audio into individual numbered tracks. Automatically put them in a folder and give them a common prefix so you'll always know what they are. It's a new, fast, easy to use technological breakthrough that's now built into the new DAK Wave Editor Pro

This is a very big deal. Very few programs allow you to separate tracks at all. And the ones that do can be very slow and time consuming. It's not their fault, Wave Files are very big and it takes your computer a long time to process them. The new Track Tracker technology changes all that. In the example below

I'll show you how to take a side of a record that had 7 tracks and

in less than 2 minutes (I can do it in 52 seconds)

separate all 7 tracks. 1st time every time. No guessing. No problems. Just easy track splitting.

Then in less than another 1.5 minutes, the Track Tracking technology will take over and automatically do all the track splitting for you.

The Track Tracker Will:

1. put all your tacks in the folder of your choice
2. automatically number your tracks and assigning a prefix of your choice.

OK, let's do it. Remember it's 1st time every time and less than 2 minutes to do.

Oh, if you're not really sure why you want to separate tracks, and you do, here's a little explanation.

Here's One Side of One Record With 7 Tracks

OK, I've just recorded an LP that was about 22 minutes on side 1. The record had 7 tracks and I used the Automated Length Timer in the DAK Wave Editor Pro to automatically make the recording. So, here are the facts.

(Note: You don't need the facts I'm just letting you know. You really can do this 1st time every time in about 2 minutes)
It's a 598 Megabyte Wave File.
It has 7 tracks.
It runs about 22 minutes

I'm going to show you how you can separate it into 7 separate numbered tracks ready to burn to a CD (you can use our Click & Pop filter first if you want) and you'll spend just about 2 minutes telling the Track Tracker what to do and then let the Track Tracker do it all for you in another 1.5 minutes automatically.

It's the same for copying cassettes, tracks you've recorded from the Internet or anything you put in the Wave Editor.

OK, let's get started.

Easy Setup First.

OK we're going to choose our tracks. But first, where do we want them to go and what do we want to call them? It's all easy and instant. You really will do all this 1st time every time in just about 2 minutes.

Arrow 1. Do you want Wave (standard audio for CDs) or MP3. Just click the button you want.

Arrow 2. Where do you want to put the tracks that the Track Tracker automatically generates for you? Just pick any folder on your computer. Or make one with the name of the artist or album or anything you want.

Arrow 3. What do you want to call the tracks? The Track Tracker will automatically generate and number all your tracks. But, you can put the Album name or Artist name, or anything you like as a Prefix so in my example, you'll see that I've chosen the name of the album, Sing Out. So I'll get tracks SingOut1 - Singout7 automatically. Now you'll never have to wonder what track 7 is or where you put it.

Arrow 4. So all you do is click your cursor where you see the blank spots between tracks (more later) and then click the Add Marker Button. That's all there is to it.

Arrow 5. This isn't anything for you to do, but the Track Tracker will automatically list each track in this box for you. See below.

OK, after you do this once or twice this will just take you a few seconds and you're ready to let the Track Tracker automatically generate all your tracks for you.

OK, let's create the tracks.

Track Tracking 1st Time Every Time Made Easy.

OK, this is really easy. All we do here is mark the tracks. As I've said, all you do is think of your music as an EKG. Where there's music, you see the lines going up and down. Where there are tracks, you'll see it looks like a flat line.

Let's do it.

ArrowS 1A, 1B, 1C. So just click your cursor in between the waves as I've shown. Each time you click your cursor, just click the (arrow 3) Add marker button and the Track Tracker will be ready to separate your tracks.

That's really all there is to it. I've shown you at arrow 2 what the display looks like after you've selected your tracks.

But what if you're not sure where the track is? What if you'd like to see it bigger and closer?

No problem, scroll down.

See Your Tracks Big And Clear

Let's take a close look so you can see bigger spaces between your tracks.

Let's zoom in.

Arrow 1. Here's how you Zoom In, in the Track Tracker or any time in the Wave Editor. Just put your cursor anywhere in the wave form. Hold down the left mouse button and drag to the right. What I've done is dragged from 1A to 1 B here.

You don't have to drag any particular area. You don't have to be accurate. Just drag from before you think there's a break till after it. About 2-3 inches is good.

Arrow 2. See the Magnifying glass with the + in it? That's the Zoom In. The one with the - is the Zoom Out and the one with the 0 is the return to full view. Anyway, since we want to Zoom In, let's click the Zoom in Button.

Viola, I can see.

See It Big. Zoom In. Easy See.

This is what the Same Wave Form looks like once you've Zoomed In. And you can Zoom In again if you want.

In fact you can zoom in till you're looking at about 1/10 of 1 second on the entire screen. We don't need to do that here. But I thought you'd want to know.

Anyway, here's how to mark and separate your tracks. What I'm showing you here is that there could potentially be two track breaks here. I've shown them with Arrows 1 and 2. Most likely, there's only one and that the other one is simply a silent part of the music.

Let's find out.

Note. Oh before we do, I want you to see one more really great feature you'll use to move around.

Arrow 3 shows you a green bar. That bar represents how much of the whole file of 7 tracks you are looking at on the screen right now. And if you move your cursor up to it, you can effortless grab it and use it to take you anywhere in the whole file of 7 tracks that you want to go. In short, just because you've zoomed in doesn't mean you don't have easy and effortless access to the entire side without having to zoom in or out again.

OK, back to separating our tracks.

Is It A Track? Or Isn't It A Track.

We've thought of and included everything to make this really easy. Here's all you do to find out if it's a track or just a second of silence within a song.

ArrowS 1A - 1B. Highlight the area around where you think there might be a track. Remember, just drag over it.

Arrow 2. Click the play button. You'll just hear the area you've highlighted. It just takes a second and you're done. In this case it wasn't a track and I'll ignore it. But you never know. And that's why this system is so good. You'll get it first time every time with the Track Tracker.

Let's Finish Marking Our Tracks.

Finish Marking Your Tracks

Here I'm just showing you how easy it is to mark the tracks.

Arrow 1. I've put a marker here by first putting my cursor here and then Clicking the Add marker button (Arrow 3) You can see that after a maker is placed it's Red. Before you click the Add button, it's yellow. Isn't that easy?

Arrow 2. Here you can see the yellow cursor mark where I've placed the cursor. It will turn red after I click the Add Button.

Arrow 3. Here's the Add Marker Button. Just click it wherever you want to place a track.

That's all there is to separating your tracks with the all-new Track Tracker technology.
You really will do it first time every time in just about 2 minutes.

The 7 Finished Tracks Marked.

You're finished. This is what the Track Tracker looks like.

Arrow 1. You see that you have 8 marks. That's for 7 tracks. The 8th mark is because you put a marker (marker 1) at the very beginning of the file. That's about the only thing you need to remember to do.

Arrow 2. This is it. The moment of truth. Click The Split File Button! Let's watch the automation.

BECAUSE YOU ARE FINISHED. Now let the Track Tracker Do it's thing.

Click Split File.

Now You're Just An Observer As Automation Takes Over.

OK, you can go get a soda. But don't be too long. It only took my computer about 1-1/2 minutes to separate all 7 tracks for me. What do you see here? Glad you asked.

ArrowS 1A-1B. As the Track Tracker Separates the tracks, it displays each track as a full screen view. No reason, it's just fun to watch.

Arrow 2. If you look at the green progress bar, you'll see that there are 7 marks in this channel. As the Track Tracker splits your tracks, the green bar moves across the segments so you know how far along it is as you watch. Of course it does its job whether you are there or not. Whenever you come back all your tracks will be separated and waiting for you.

Let's see your tracks.

Your Tracks Separated Like Magic.

Here are your tracks. I've opened the folder that I had selected (Limeliters) and as you can see it automatically put all 7 tracks right here in the folder. Each track has the name of the Album I chose (SingOut) and the track number following it.

Note: Your track Icons will look different. They are really the same, but the design on the Icon is based on which program on your computer you've selected as your default music player. So don't worry. If you're like me and I have 8 computers, each has a different looking Icon. But they all will say Singout1-7.

Now you've seen how easy it is to separate your tracks. The first time this may take you 5-10 minutes. But after you've done it once or twice, you really will do all this in just about 2 minutes per side. And remember, I do it in just about 52 seconds. Let me know how fast it is for you.

Enjoy your music. Now with DAK's New Track Tracker Technology, there's phenomenally less effort that you have to expend before you start listening to and enjoying all your tracks on your computer and on CDs.

A few last things that I want to mention.

Why separate tracks?

A lot of people don't tell you that you need to separate tracks when you copy your LPs, 45s and cassettes to CD.

If you don't separate the tracks, you can only start your CD at the beginning and play till the end. There's no way to get to the middle tracks.

So in the example above, you would always have to start with track 1 and play through track 7 if you wanted to hear track 7. Plus, with our system it's easy to make compilation CDs.

So if you've got 2, 5 or even 20 LPs of a single artist you can take tracks from any or all albums and easily put the ones you really like onto a 'favorites' disc. It's really no harder to do than just putting the tracks from a single album onto a CD.

And Finally, if you don't separate the tracks you can't eliminate the tracks you don't want. Usually there are 2 or 3 tracks on any LP or cassette that you don't really love. Now once you separate them you can leave them off or delete them easily.

Plus if you're copying spoken word tapes you want to put in tracks too. It's easy to do and it will make listening a whole lot easier. For books or sermons when you listen you don't want to have to start at the beginning each time. Put in a track every 10-15 minutes. It makes access really easy and you'll be glad you did.

So, spend about 2 minutes as I've shown you above once and enjoy perfectly separated tracks just like commercial CDs forever. Now with DAK's all new Track Tracker Technology it's easy to have great sounding easy to listen to CDs from now on.

Remember you'll get your tracks separated 1st Time Every Time with the all new Track Tracker Technology in just about 2 minutes flat.

Enjoy. . . Drew

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