I hate the EMPTY SECONDS on cds....

[yoda313]

So do any of you get tired of seeing those blank seconds on songs??? You know how the song will be over but the counter still ticks down to 0?? I think thats a totally cheap way for the music industry to inflate its total play time.

[lumis]

yeah, i'm sure increasing the play time of a cd by 1 minute will sell millions more records..

[yoda313]

I don't think thats it. What I mean is why do it at all??? Why not stop the song when its done???

[canadateck]

Why not stop the song when its done???

I like the Fade.........Is that what you mean?

[yoda313]

Why not stop the song when its done???

I like the Fade.........Is that what you mean?

No many songs keep ticking after there is no audible noise.

[ZAPPER]

I hear Ya, little green dude. Ain't nothing like a little bit of hiss or clicks between songs to remind you that the thing is still working. Kind of like the old days of record albums on vinyl.

OK, You see, they used to have these things that we called records.........

[lordsmurf]

The gaps are for the way the CD is burned, and for the way a CD player can vary in how it starts/stops playing a song.

If you had burned CDs in the early 1990s, you'd have been forced to rip songs manually and add in air before making the new compilation. Software did not auto-add the spacing properly in the ancient days.

[Noahtuck]

Software did not auto-add the spacing properly in the ancient days.

What software ?? in the ancient days the only software was your finger paused over the stop or pause button using your own judgement thinking was that a long enough pause


The only computers back then were the ones you saw on the original Star Trek!!!

[lordsmurf]

Something Adaptec made, came with the SCSI card and SCSI 1x burner.

[Noahtuck]

Something Adaptec made, came with the SCSI card and SCSI 1x burner.

Okay, when i hear ancient i think of the home 8-Track recoder decks i had even before cassette's existed

And i am not talking reel to reel....

Talk about ancient 8)

[Faustus]

My cousin does audio production for a living. The "2 second gap" is standard except for tracks that are meant to be together. (look at a trance mix CD for an example)

Thats my biggest iPod complaint is that it doesn't (As far as I know) support gapless playback.

[Noahtuck]

My cousin does audio production for a living. The "2 second gap" is standard except for tracks that are meant to be together. (look at a trance mix CD for an example)

Thats my biggest iPod complaint is that it doesn't (As far as I know) support gapless playback.

See, that is what i hate!!! any program, software, Hardware that does not allow seamless playback!!! some albums (cd's) were made to never have gaps between the song's!!!!

[Conquest10]

My cousin does audio production for a living. The "2 second gap" is standard except for tracks that are meant to be together. (look at a trance mix CD for an example)

He is correct there. Especially in the world of audio production where that audio will be used later on for something.

[Faustus]

I don't have a name off hand but there are ways to not have the gap on CDs you burn yourself.

But on a commercially pressed disk there isn't much you can do.

[smearbrick1]

Nero has an option for audio CDs. You can remove the 2 second gap between tracks. You just highlight tracks 2 through the last track, right click, select properties, change the 2 seconds to 0 seconds (or you can set it to crossfade), click "Ok", and your done. Burn as normal. You can't modify the gap settings for the first track though. It requires that the gap be set to 2 seconds even though it still runs seamlessly into track 2. Figure that one out.

[thevoelk]

Flaystus, do you mean Disc-At-Once (DAO)? I think it was an advanced checkbox option in EZ CD Creator, when it was actually a somewhat decent program. To burn CDs with at least.

[Faustus]

Flaystus, do you mean Disc-At-Once (DAO)? I think it was an advanced checkbox option in EZ CD Creator, when it was actually a somewhat decent program. To burn CDs with at least.

No, what I'm talking about will have an option that says something like Remove Gap, or Gapless.

[MackemX]

Nero has anoption to remove the gap doesn't it? I haven't got the latest version but even when I change the 2 second gap to 0 it still has the gap for a fraction of a second . I've been to lazy to find out why until someone with a newer version of Nero showed me the remove gap option was there also

[smearbrick1]

Flaystus, do you mean Disc-At-Once (DAO)? I think it was an advanced checkbox option in EZ CD Creator, when it was actually a somewhat decent program. To burn CDs with at least.

No, what I'm talking about will have an option that says something like Remove Gap, or Gapless.

Nero has an option for audio CDs. You can remove the 2 second gap between tracks. You just highlight tracks 2 through the last track, right click, select properties, change the 2 seconds to 0 seconds (or you can set it to crossfade), click "Ok", and your done. Burn as normal. You can't modify the gap settings for the first track though. It requires that the gap be set to 2 seconds even though it still runs seamlessly into track 2. Figure that one out.

[MackemX]

so you are saying crossfade is the option but isn't crossfade when one track fades out the other fades in but they overlap?

I've just checked Nero again and the 'remove silence at end of tracks' is in the CDA options. . I've never looked in there and always used the 0 seconds in the properties

nooooooob!

[Faustus]

so you are saying crossfade is the option but isn't crossfade when one track fades out the other fades in but they overlap?
nooooooob!

Crossfade is LIKE gapless, but instead of ZERO silence the end of one song actually over plays the begining of another by a bit.

[MackemX]

I use crossfade of around 3-5 seconds on Winamp when playing songs as I hate gaps and sometimes it sounds pretty decent

I just can't believe I've never checked the options for the remove silence in all the time I've used nero. Saying that I must only burn CD's twice a month as I only ever use them in the car