> On the topic of burning a CD, is it possible to define > the start and stop points for many songs within one > large file? Sure, and you can easily see this looking at the output of cdrdao read-toc $ cdrdao read-toc --fast-toc --device 0,0,0 /tmp/foo.toc (0,0,0 is my cdrom device, with ide-scsi emulation) this contains stuff like: // Track 5 TRACK AUDIO NO COPY NO PRE_EMPHASIS TWO_CHANNEL_AUDIO FILE "data.wav" 14:42:15 03:06:20 // Track 6 TRACK AUDIO NO COPY NO PRE_EMPHASIS TWO_CHANNEL_AUDIO FILE "data.wav" 17:48:35 03:03:58 As you can see, it uses one large data.wav file, and starting points in that file + length for each track (and in this case, with no silence in between).