Robert Hegemann wrote: > David wrote: > > Hello All, > > > > Has anyone else had the problem of a small pop at the beginning > > of playing an encoded file? I am just curious if it is a known problem. > > > > BTW: > > > > I am compiling and linking in Win98.. > > > > > > -David Swigger > > Hi David, > first of all we need to know what you did. > > Did you use an old version of Lame? > What are your Lame settings? > What kind of player do you use? (maybe winamp, what version?) > Is this small pop in the original wave? (could be the ripper) > > It's hard to track down your problem, if you give so little information. > > Robert > > PS: for your Win98 problem there is an easy solution: LINUX > PPS: OK, I'm just joking :) > -- > MP3 ENCODER mailing list ( http://geek.rcc.se/mp3encoder/ ) I hear a pop on Windows 98 anytime I use Windows Media to play any sound. It seems to leave the DAC at the last value in the last thing it played. Lots of music seems to have an average DC value that is not zero (as if there was a ground shift in the recording equipment and they really did not want to put any transformers in the recording path). Shifting from one song to another often is accompanied by a significant pop. It also could be that there is a little bit of junk in the buffer in Windows 98 that is getting flushed out when Windows Media starts playing. In looking at the spectrum and signal values in the wave files, I have noticed that the pop is not in the recording. It therefore must be in the player. Another problem I have noticed in the CD ripping process is that the time values in the directory of the CD are often not accurate. I have tried different rippers and have written my own ripper and they all have identical problems in picking up the beginning of a song when asked to start at the beginning of a track on some CD's. I find that I have to modify the beginning of the song by backtracking or going forward in time (or else clip the beginning with a WAV editor). You have to do this before encoding the wav into MP3. Doug Wood -- MP3 ENCODER mailing list ( http://geek.rcc.se/mp3encoder/ )
