[John Z]

Apologies, etc, as I've never posted anything before. I have searched for this topic and found nothing.

Most of my interest in EMC 10 is in burning music CD's from wave files. I can't find a way to rip audio tracks without gaps of silence at the end. I've looked at the several different ways of ripping in EMC 10 but haven't found anything.

Since the "pre-gap" from the previous track is being added to each track I rip, there is a 2 to 4 second silence at the end of many tracks. (It can even be 10 seconds or more when it's before bonus tracks.) I don't want this as I'd like to choose the gap of silence between tracks on the CD I'm burning (without editing each track manually). Also, on most discs all but the last track will end up with a few seconds of silence at the end. The last track rarely has this, so if you shift the tracks around or compile from various discs they are never going to have uniform gaps between tracks.

Isn't there a way to rip tracks without this gap? Hope I made my question clear.

[sknis]

Apologies, etc, as I've never posted anything before. I have searched for this topic and found nothing.

Most of my interest in EMC 10 is in burning music CD's from wave files. I can't find a way to rip audio tracks without gaps of silence at the end. I've looked at the several different ways of ripping in EMC 10 but haven't found anything.

Since the "pre-gap" from the previous track is being added to each track I rip, there is a 2 to 4 second silence at the end of many tracks. (It can even be 10 seconds or more when it's before bonus tracks.) I don't want this as I'd like to choose the gap of silence between tracks on the CD I'm burning (without editing each track manually). Also, on most discs all but the last track will end up with a few seconds of silence at the end. The last track rarely has this, so if you shift the tracks around or compile from various discs they are never going to have uniform gaps between tracks.

Isn't there a way to rip tracks without this gap? Hope I made my question clear.

Use Sound Editor to remove/adjust the gaps. Sorry, I know that you don't want to do it manually but I don't think that there is any way of doing it otherwise. There seems to be a glitch in EMC 10 that will not allow you to set the gaps between music cuts.

Of cource, you can eliminate the gaps in Sound Editor by making a mix of the music so that they play one after another.

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[John Z]

Thanks for your help, sknis. I was afraid that might be the case. I think I kinda liked Easy CD Creator 5 better for several of its features, but oh well. I guess at least with the Sound Editor I can roughly see the silences and gauge by that whether to bother to edit or not.

[d_deweywright]

Thanks for your help, sknis. I was afraid that might be the case. I think I kinda liked Easy CD Creator 5 better for several of its features, but oh well. I guess at least with the Sound Editor I can roughly see the silences and gauge by that whether to bother to edit or not.

Most commercial CDs are written in DAO mode, as such, the only pre-gap that exists, is before the first track, and that is not included when you rip to .WAV files. If you're dealing with TAO written discs, then that's a different thing. So, the silence you're getting, if from a DAO written disc is part of the track itself. Even ECDC 5 didn't eliminate that, unless you were working with the version that had the bug that always cut 2 seconds off the ends of tracks, whether they were written in DAO or TAO, and whether or not it was silence or music.

The only way for any application to do what you want would be for it to first scan the tracks, then come up with some determination for the length of the silence between the tracks, and cut that, I've never seen any Roxio application do that.

This post has been edited by d_deweywright: 27 February 2008 - 06:16 AM