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).