<p>OK, this may be splitting hairs, but D is having some questions about the timing of her audition songs for chicago.</p>
<p>All of her schools seem to have different time requirements for songs and monologues, but specifically for songs..</p>
<p>We had a CD made for her with all her accompaniment pieces, accompaniment for the whole song, in each case, usually 2-2:30 or so for her various songs. She's gone through her songs and the time requirements for each school, and she's figured out each cut she needs, but we don't have a separate track for each school. She has gone through and knows the timemark on the cd for each of her cuts.</p>
<p>Most of her schools say "have the CD cued up to the start of your songs" etc... that's no problem for the first song...but she's worried about having to cue up song two, to say 0:45 or whatever, in each specific case.. Will auditors give her a hassle about having to do that for each second song in her auditions?</p>
<p>My D had separate CDs for each song and for each song cut. For instance, she had one CD for a 16-bar cut of, say, a ballad and another CD for the 32-bar cut of the ballad, and the same for her 16- and 32-bar cuts of uptempo songs.</p>
<p>It was never a problem at Unifieds.</p>
<p>Also, be aware that the kid is not the one usually manning the CD player. Someone else does that. So having the cuts on separate CDs makes it easy: walk in, hand the various CDs to whoever is there, and be ready to sing. </p>
<p>Putting various songs on one CD would make it more complicated, in my opinion.</p>
<p>yes I see your point. unfortunately when the accompanist was available to do the recording, D hadn't had all her school specific individual cuts worked out. One fix I could do is to use Goldwave [url=<a href="http://www.goldwave.com%5DGoldWave">http://www.goldwave.com]GoldWave</a> - Audio Editing, Recording, Conversion, Restoration, & Analysis Software<a href="I%20have%20all%20her%20accompaniment%20on%20my%20laptop%20too,%20and%20can%20cut/edit%20it">/url</a> to select her individual cuts from the whole accompaniment piece, and burn those to new CD's just like you mention above, but I just want to make sure it's that big of a deal to the auditors, before going through all that editing work, rather than having her songs on one CD and her telling the auditor, say -"my song 2 cut is track 2, 0:45" or whatever. opinions please... I am fine either way, just don't want to knock myself out if it's not that big of a deal..</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>I am not familiar with your particular software, but if you already have identified the exact times you need cut, it shouldn't be that time-consuming. I would make the separate CD's if I were you.</p>
<p>My D, like NMR's, had individual CD's for each of her songs and each of her cuts. It was worth the trouble, because it made things so much easier for her to not have to worry about cue-ing etc.</p>
<p>I'd recommend making separate CD's (and not forget to clearly mark them, not only with the title, but also with the cut 16 or 32 bars etc. :D - seems probably redundant, but we ran into one girl who had forgotten to do so, and she was stressing while counting the bars of the songs she was planning to sing).</p>