1. What is Amarok Tracks? Amarok is a one
track album lasting over 60 minutes but, as according to the inner sleeve notes made by
Mike, this long track can be splitted into several short tracks making its listening more
pleasent and comfortable, giving you the chance to jump forward and backward. The inner
sleeve notes are a good guide but they are incomplete and give shifted timings, but
according to this notes and the ones found in Mike's FAQ one can split the
whole album into 52 tracks after a carefullly listening. Even the FAQ has a few mistakes,
imho, so this CD contains the result of my point of view of how Amarok
can be divided in multiple tracks.
2. What do I
need? Well, of course you need the original album, no matter if it is the
original release or the HDCD remix; a good ripping program (may I recommend you
EAC?)
and a burning program capable of reading cuesheet, in particular, CDRWin.
3. What is a cuesheet? The cuesheet file is the heart of Disc-At-Once recording. This file
defines all of the files to be recorded and the starting time of each track/index. This
file gives you complete control over the layout of the disc. You can control the spacing
between tracks, plus define subindexes, pregaps, postgaps, media catalog numbers, and
ISRCs. Cuesheet files are standard text (ASCII) files.
4. Step by step.
First, download the cuesheet for Amarok Tracks.
Rip all the CD to your hard disk as a wave file and name it amarok.wav. Put the
wave file and cuesheet in the same directory. Read the cuesheet with CDRWin and burn the
CD in DAO mode (CDRWin does it by default). Listen. Have fun with next and previous track
buttons on your CD player. There you have it!
5. What's all
this code in the cuesheet? Have a look at it and you will find it pretty
easy to understand. Starting times for each track are given as <mm:ss:ff> being
minutes, seconds and frames. There are 75 frames or cd sectors per second.
6. Titles and times. Each track has it's name so write this down:
01. Fast Riff (02:32) intro
02. Intro (03:13)
03. Climax I (00:32) 12 strings
04. Soft Bodrhan (01:01) part 1
05. Rachmaninov (00:17) part 1
06. Soft Bodrhan (00:20) part 2
07. Rachmaninov (00:35) part 2
08. Roses (01:48)
09. Intro (00:49) reprise 1
10. Scot (02:03)
11. Didlybom (01:43)
12. Mad Bit (00:56) part 1
13. Russian / Hoover (02:03)
14. Fast Riff (01:56)
15. Lion (01:59)
16. Fast Waltz (01:45) part 1
17. Stop (00:50)
18. Mad Bit (00:13) part 2
19. Fast Waltz (00:19) part 2
20. Mandolin (01:01)
21. Intermission (00:15)
22. Boat (03:03) part 1
23. Intro (00:32) reprise 2 - part 1
24. Intro (02:07) reprise 2 - part 2
25. Big Roses (01:05)
26. Green Green (01:11) |
27. Slow Waltz (01:39)
28. Lion (01:00) reprise
29. Mandolin (01:40) reprise 1
30. TV-am (00:30)
31. Mandolin (00:33) reprise 2
32. Fast Riff (01:13) reprise
33. Hoover / Scot (01:19)
34. Boat (01.10) part 2
35. 12 Strings (00:16) reprise
36. Intro Waltz (00:23)
37. Green (00:34) reprise
38. Africa I: Far Build (03:15)
39. Africa I: Far Dip (00:43)
40. Africa I: Pre Climax (00:47)
41. Africa I: 12 Climax (00:50)
42. Africa I: Climax (00:36) part 1
43. Africa II: Bridge (00:17) part 1
44. Africa II: Riff (00:17)
45. Africa II: Boat (00:17) part 3
46. Africa II: Bridge (00:19) part 2
47. Africa II: Climax (02:12) part 2
48. Africa III: Hello Everyone (01:26)
49. Africa III: Choir (01:40)
50. Africa III: Recorder (00:43)
51. Africa III: Happy (00:28)
52. Africa III: Finale (01:18) |
7. Please, don't ask
for artwork! Sure you can do a pretty one by
yourself O;-) |