Audio DVD disc (Encore 2.0) - adding chapters without gaps in sound?

I'm currently building an audio-only DVD for a project that is 24 hours of continuous sound. It consists of 26 separate sound files, each just under an hour. When one file ends and the next begins, instead of a gap-less flow I get about a half second of silence. Does anyone know how to place separate sound files together with chapters so it will play completely uninterrupted?

Jim.
This problem (WaveLab 5) is caused by your source file being straight WAV. To get a WAV file larger than 2Gb on any 32-bit system it must be encoded as WAV format extensible. AIFF is a good workaround as well.
It's not the fault of WaveLab, but the source file.
A 24-hour file on a DVD-A?
Not certain you can do this.
we can assume - depending on the music - around 40 to 60% reduction in data. So, 24 * 60 = 1440 minutes
Data Rate is:
48(KHz) * 16 (bitrate) * 60 (seconds per minute) * 1440 (minutes) * 2 (tracks) = 132,710 megabits.
Average MLP compression is around 40% (could be higher depending on the music) so 132,710,400 * 0.6 = 79,626 Megabits.
So far, so good - the total capacity of a DVD9 disc is as follows:
8,500,000,000 (bits) * 8 (bit/bytes) / 1000000 (bits/megabits)
= 68000 Megabits available.
So we have a shortfall in space here.
Lets see what happens if we reduce to 44.1KHz (This sample rate is DVD-A legal).
44.1 * 16 * 60 * 1440 * 2 = 121,927Mbits * 0.6 = 73,156 Megabits.
It would depend entirely on exactly how much data reduction the MLP system will give us, and because this is a lossless system it cannot be accurately calculated (VBR = Reduction in Data, CBR = Reduction in Quality)
So I am sorry, but unless you get lucky on the encoding it is not going to fit with 24 hours of lossless material on a DVD9 disc.

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