[jlove]

On a number of my older CDs, and especially concert (live) performances, the Roxio CD ripper seems to have a hard time figuring out where tracks are supposed to begin or end. After I rip the music and move it to my mp3 player, I find that songs begin several bars into the track, or end abruptly before they are supposed to.

Can anything be done (such as a manual edit) to correct these problems?

Thanks for any advice.

--jlove

[sknis]

On a number of my older CDs, and especially concert (live) performances, the Roxio CD ripper seems to have a hard time figuring out where tracks are supposed to begin or end. After I rip the music and move it to my mp3 player, I find that songs begin several bars into the track, or end abruptly before they are supposed to.

Can anything be done (such as a manual edit) to correct these problems?

Thanks for any advice.

--jlove

Capture the full performance as one file and then edit it in Sound Editor. You will see the track markers. Move them manually. I don't trust it very much so I do everything manually. Remember to work from the first to the last or you'll find some markers that move again. Export the clips to your folder.

[jlove]

I ripped about 500 CDs over a few weeks, so it would have been pretty time consuming to do this manually for all of them--and I must say I only had the problems I mentioned with a handful of disks. But I will try your solution with the ones I had the trouble with and for working with these disks, that sounds like a great solution.

Thanks!

-- Jack

Capture the full performance as one file and then edit it in Sound Editor. You will see the track markers. Move them manually. I don't trust it very much so I do everything manually. Remember to work from the first to the last or you'll find some markers that move again. Export the clips to your folder.

[d_deweywright]

On a number of my older CDs, and especially concert (live) performances, the Roxio CD ripper seems to have a hard time figuring out where tracks are supposed to begin or end. After I rip the music and move it to my mp3 player, I find that songs begin several bars into the track, or end abruptly before they are supposed to.

Can anything be done (such as a manual edit) to correct these problems?

Thanks for any advice.

--jlove

As you say that these are mostly older CDs that have had trouble, I would guess that the problem is actually with the discs. If you put those discs into a CD player, and then index to one of the songs that starts several measures into the song, does it start the same way when you index to that song? If so, then the issue is in how the CD was produced initially. EMC is using the information in the table of contents on the CD to know where the track starts, it's not "listening" to the music. When you play the CD from start to finish, you wouldn't notice that sort of issue unless you happened to be watching the display, then you'd probably see the track number change those few measures into the song, rather than right at the beginning.

Good luck!