Hi, I was wondering if there's a way to stitch more than one song together for longer playing. In other words, I have a DVD X-Show program for making DVD slide shows with music. But you can only assign one title, so it ends up playing over and over again. If I could stitch several songs together into one .wav or .mp3, I could select that and it would play thruout the slide show, which is usually 25-30 mins without repeating. This is just the way my feeble 1/2 brain decided it would be workable. If there are better or other ways, plz advise. Thnx, rob

Without buying an expensive editor such as Cool Edit Pro, this would be your easiest way, and it costs nothing but a wee bit of time:

Open a text editor like Notepad and paste the following lines into it.....

@echo off

copy /b 1.mp3+2.mp3 merged.mp3
copy /b merged.mp3+3.mp3 merged.mp3
copy /b merged.mp3+4.mp3 merged.mp3
copy /b merged.mp3+5.mp3 merged.mp3

@exit

Save this file as merge.bat.

Now, copy your MP3 songs into a seperate folder, along with the above .bat file. Rename the songs, in order of how you want them, to 1.mp3, 2.mp3, 3.mp3, etc. The above file will merge 5 songs. More lines can be added to merge greater amounts. If you run it with fewer files, it will still work OK. Anyway, just double-click the .bat file, and your songs will be merged. It won't remove the originals, either.

Hey Jim ! This is really strange. I came back yesterday and thanked you for a excellent idea ... and it looks like it'll work! However, I come back today, and no follow-up post from me ! Not sure what happened. But again, thnx ! I will get around to trying your great suggestion and let you know ! Now I have to find the right tunes to use. Thnx again, rob

hey rob, there is a good free sound editor called asia that you could use if you prefer a proper app

Or Acid Pro from Sony would work...