radish;403924 Wrote: > No it wouldn't, the gaps are encoded as silence on the end of the > per-track files. You even said that in your own post...so I'm a little > confused!
Well, burning the FLACs in DAO (or anything with no gaps) will make the disc *sound* the same as the original if you listen straight through, but the actual gap points (the information telling the player that a gap exists for a particular track) will be lost. What was on the original disc a pre-track gap for a particular track will forever be actual normal track information at the end of the preceding track, and every track will just have a pre-track gap of 0. This mainly makes a difference in shuffle mode. In the original disc, the pre-track gap will be heard before the track being played or, on some players, not at all (because going to a new track in shuffle mode is treated the same as a seek whereupon the player begins play at INDEX 01). On the new disc burned in DAO mode without the aid of a CUE Sheet, the pre-track gap for a given track will be heard at the end of the preceding track, whenever that is heard. Because there is actually nothing about the pre-track gap definition that says it has to be of a certain length or that it must be silence, the difference is most clear on discs that make use of this and stray well outside the norm of a gap of silence between 0 and 2 seconds. A good example is Comin' Back on The Crystal Method's debut album Vegas. It has about a 1.5 minute pre-track gap that has actual music (no jokes about CM, please). If I seek directly to or hit this track in shuffle mode, I don't hear that bit at all. If a copy were burned without the aid of a CUE Sheet, I'd hear this at the end of the preceding track (High Roller) every time that track was played, no matter what. Of course, this is also the behavior I get in my current setup where I stream FLACs to various SBs... Also, many live performance CDs in which an emcee in present will have the emcee's introduction to each piece in the pre-track gap. On some CD players then, if you listen to the disc in shuffle, you'll never hear these introductions. This lack of proper support for this aspect of CDs (plus lack of support for indexes beyond 01) is actually one of the things that I miss most about having moved to having all my music on a server. -- eq72521 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ eq72521's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1512 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60945 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
