cliveb;664642 Wrote: > 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. > >
Clive, useful post. Ive done some tests and noticed this in terms of playback of various types of files: Hotel California CD -> track by track rip -> has audible gaps when listening Everly Bros compilation CD -> track by track rip -> has gaps while listening Analogue sourced tracks -> track by track capture without silence gaps -> no gaps while listening Then I made a handbuilt playlist, analogue track then CD track then analogue then CD, etc, and heard: (a) No gap between analogue track followed by CD track, then (b) Very short gap between CD track followed by analogue, then (c) No gap between analogue track followed by CD track, then (d) Very, very short gap between CD track followed by analogue I conclude from this, and from your post, that the 'index 0' gap has been appended to the end of the previous track, though I am not sure this has happened 'every' time. Maybe over the weekend I can run some of these tracks through audacity and see just what 'silence' there is, and where. I've looked again at the crip website ( http://bach.dynet.com/crip/ ) and I notice that there are settings for dealing with 'silence' so I think I need to be more specific about that when I'm capturing from CDs (I created those files when we'd just first had SBS and probably didn't fully understand why the gap might be important). We purposely do track-by-track captures so that specific movements of a longer work can be played, if we want. On classical 'compilation' CDs - several different works - then track-by-track labelling and access is vital. >From the point of view of the analogue captures, I think I'd like to add 3 seconds silence to the start of each of the files. Some sort of 'batch job' might manage this, I'll look into that. regards, Atlantic -- Atlantic ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Atlantic's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=44239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91049 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
