Atlantic;664512 Wrote: 
> Gary, I must check that; it may be that the problem is ok on the CD rips
> we have but is definitely prevalent on digital captures from analogue
> sources where our music was captured on a track-by-track basis.  From
> now on (knowing this) we can add a few seconds silence, at the end of
> each capture, using Audacity.  (We use crip to create the flac files
> from our CDs.)
> 
It sounds to me as if we're talking mainly about classical music here.
In my experience, classical CDs tend to put the gap into index 0 of the
upcoming track (that's the part where you see your CD player "counting
down"). If you have ripped individual tracks, then the liklihood is
that the ripper has started at the position of index 1 (the point where
your CD player stops counting down and the music begins). So you have
lost the gap that was present on the CD.

As others have pointed out, rippers often have options regarding what
to do with the index 0 portion of tracks (also known as the "pregap").
I think what you want to do most of the time is to ask the ripper to
append the pregap to the end of the previous track when ripping - and
this means you need to rip the whole CD in one go, not track-by-track.

Unfortunately there are also CDs where the content of the pregap
naturally belongs at the front of the track it precedes - for example
live concert recordings where someone makes an announcement before the
song is played. So appending the pregap to the end of the previous
track isn't always the right choice. But for studio classical
recordings, chances are the pregap is just silence.


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