Burning disc-at-once (DAO) CDs

From the Tools menu, choose Burn Disc-at-Once Audio CD to burn a disc-at-once CD using the current CD layout.

Use DAO CDs when you need to create a master disc for mass replication.

Tip: When creating DAO CDs, right-click the ruler or Time Display window and choose Audio CD Time from the shortcut menu to help you arrange your project. In Audio CD Time format, the ruler will display hh:mm:ss:ff (hours:minutes:seconds:frames). Audio CD time uses a frame rate of 75 fps.

Next, choose Quantize to Frames from the Options menu to ensure that any edits you make will occur on frame boundaries.

If your first track region begins before 00:00:02:00, a timeline offset is automatically added so the first track begins at exactly two seconds. This offset is added for burning only and is not reflected in the data window.

If you want to display track numbers in the Time Display window, right-click the Time Display window and choose CD Track Position from the shortcut menu. In this mode, the Time Display will show track numbers and the running time for each track. Negative values indicate the pause time before a track:

Creating and editing tracks for disc-at-once CDs

A disc-at-once CD requires that you define a track list before burning.

From the Insert menu, choose CD Track to add a CD track using the current selection as the track length.

Sound Forge also provides several other methods of adding tracks.

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