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Old 04-06-2005   #39 (permalink)
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Re: Gapless Audio CDs - Here's How

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Originally Posted by minix
yes, it's difficult for Nero to burn a perfect gapless disc.
With Foobar2k you'll probably get a disc with no perceived pauses and it will be fine most times. I guess it's possible to get a "click" between tracks if, by chance, there's too much difference in volume between the end of a track and the first samples of the following...
Yeah I've found this. After reading about Foobar2k on here I gave it a try, has been the best program so far for burning something gapless. Its still not flawless, on checking some Funki Porcini, Prefuse 73 and Masters At Work blends between track, its ever so slightly jumpy. But its still the best translation I've heard so far. Naturally this means that if you're trying to burn a mixed CD, you're a bit scuppered really since volume is going to be pretty constant throughout the CD...

Shame, kinda exposes mp3's as a bit of a shocking musical medium really. Almost assumes that people won't quite need the beginnings and ends of the tracks. I've mastered up my own mixes on Soundforge, split tracks out and burnt from wavs and never had a problem using Nero, just a shame that the entire world trades in mp3s. I've never managed to stumble across anything Flac or Wav based at all.

I resort to sharing my own mix CDs by just ripping them as one long mp3. Not great if you want to go track skipping, but then you get the quality instead.

Been through so many different programs to try and resolve this, no joy as of yet.

Even decompressing the mp3s into Soundforge and pasting them together doesn't work. Mp3s just seem to lose the plot at the end of a track!
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