Importing AIFF files as tracks

How large are the files? There should be about 10MB per minute. I'm not clear on what exactly has been done since Spin Doctor is third party software and I haven't used it. It sounds like it is possible that your tracks (how long should they be?) are not really broken up into separate files, one per track, but instead strung together as maybe a LP side per file. That would account for itunes importing them strung together. If that is the case you will probably have to use an audio editor (Audacity is free) to split the long track up into individual tune files.

Sorry, my "size" question was about the individual file sizes, trying to see if it was the equivalent of a whole LP side. For example, if they are 30MB and most of your songs are 3 minutes long then it sounds like the files are split up. I don't know how SpinDoctor does things. It may be that it just saves the whole LP side as one giant AIFF track and then uses some reference file to break it up in its display (and if you wanted to burn it using SpinDoctor or Toast which is from the same company) but doesn't go to the trouble of really splitting the LP side file into individual track files. I'm assuming you aren't using an LP like "Tubular Bells" where there is one track per side but something with shorter songs. So, how big are the files, especially compared to what you would expect for track duration?

AIFF files are not tagged like MP3 files. They don't contain track information, just what's in the filename which something like iTunes may use as a basis for putting in track names if it doesn't find id3 tags. Spin Doctor may have a separate file with the full information you enter but since you're using iTunes the filename is all iTunes has to go on.

From the sound of it, CD Spin Doctor created its own sort of TOC file for the albums in question. If that's the case, I think the results would be the best if you were able to use, as you've already suggested, an updated version of the Toast Titanium suite to open up the files with CD Spin Doctor and send the albums to Toast for burning to audio CDs. I would think that if CD Spin Doctor recognizes the separate tracks, then Toast will make use of the track breaks as well.

It may even be possible, if the above is true, to send the files to Toast and export them individually from the list of tracks in the Toast window without having to burn any CDs.

Ah, so indeed SD is just using its own reference file to "break" up the single album side file. You could do as NoName suggests and get a newer version of Toast. If that were the only reason for getting it I would make sure they are still marketing Spin Doctor and using it, otherwise buying it would be pointless. You'd think they would but sometimes companies write new versions that won't support old features or old version files.

Alternatively you could go the free way and use a program like Audacity to manually go up an break up the file into individual tracks.

At least now you know why iTunes wasn't breaking it up into tracks.

You have to save the tracks individually.
Open the file, delete all except the first track, then File -> Save As...( not Save. This would overwrite your original, losing all the tracks except one).
Once it is saved, reopen the original file, then delete all except the second track, and Save As... and so on with the remaining track.

I haven't tested this, but what about.

Bringing the entire recording into Garageband, then selecting a region for the track, and export the track to iTunes. Then select the region for the next track, and export it to iTunes?

Hope this helps,

Nathan C.