> not sure if you can do the same with a big WAV (leaving a few K on the disc for the cue file) but i can find

> out. Also not sure how to make these image/cue doohickys but have downloaded them from elsewhere

> occasionally and they work a treat...i'm sure i could figure it out quickly enough

 

Very easy to do.  I use CD Wave.  It's purpose is to allow you to break up live or otherwise seamless recordings into separate tracks without audible gaps in between.

 

Once you've set you track splits on your 80m wav file, you can save the split settings as a cue sheet.  Distribute the full wav and the cue sheet and you can burn a gapless CD with any cd burning application.

 

As for normalization, I generally set things at 98 percent.  If there is a track in which normalizing it that high destroys it (ie an a cappella song in the middle of a pop album), I'll normalize the entire album to 98%, then that one track is at a more appropriate volume compared to everything else.

 

-paul