Elimitating gaps between songs and commercial quality.

[XDelusion]

Have you ever noticed when you buy a CD from a store that when one track ends, the other begins right away, but when you burn a CD with Nero or something, it seems to put a few second gap between tracks, which really sounds bad in the case of bands like Pink Floyd where tracks A and B often run into each other.

How can I avoid this annoying problem?

Also, why is it that I can not burn a commercial quality CD like the factories do? For instance my XBOX and many DVD-ROM drives can read a DVD, CDRW, or a commercial CD, but NEVER a CDR. What is the diff between how a factory burns CD's and how home users burn them, and why are we being blocked from using there methods!?!?

[mats.hogberg]

In Nero, you can set the pause between tracks to 0 (it defaults to 2) seconds. However, there's still a noticeable "glitch" between the tracks, at least on my player.
Just select all tracks and right click.

/Mats

[mazinz]

i seem to recall that on most cd apps, if you select the "disk at once" method this will eliminate any gaps when you burn it. However if you select "track at once" this adds the 2 secondgap

[mats.hogberg]

What is the diff between how a factory burns CD's and how home users burn them, and why are we being blocked from using there methods!?!?

The diff is that CD plants don't burn, they "press" them using a glass master IIRC. We are not blocked from doing so, but would we like a $ thousand start up cost for each CD we'd like to copy, + equipment in the $ million range?

/Mats