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[joshuadmwilliams]

I'm trying to burn and enhanced cd with 0 second pauses inbetween the tracks.  I'm using Roxio Toast 6 on a mac to burn the disc.  Everything works but once I hit the "burn" button, after the songs get converted into .AIF files the 0 second gaps turn back into 2 second gaps.  Why is this happening and how can I fix this?

[tsantee]

I don't know much about enhanced audio CDs but I'll make a couple guesses. You can have Toast convert (export) the tracks to AIFF and use the AIFF versions. Maybe that will change the result. The first track has to have a 2-second gap but that precedes the start of the track. Make sure you a burning Disc at once and not track at once. I believe that's in the Recorder settings window. If you have an older optical drive it may not support burning disc at once.

Something you can test is choose Save as Disc Image from the File menu. This should result in a .sd2f file. If you play that file with QuickTime Player it will be one continuous track so you can preview if the gap is present. If there is no gap then the problem is the disc is burning in track-at-once mode.

[joshuadmwilliams]

I don't know much about enhanced audio CDs but I'll make a couple guesses. You can have Toast convert (export) the tracks to AIFF and use the AIFF versions. Maybe that will change the result. The first track has to have a 2-second gap but that precedes the start of the track. Make sure you a burning Disc at once and not track at once. I believe that's in the Recorder settings window. If you have an older optical drive it may not support burning disc at once.

Something you can test is choose Save as Disc Image from the File menu. This should result in a .sd2f file. If you play that file with QuickTime Player it will be one continuous track so you can preview if the gap is present. If there is no gap then the problem is the disc is burning in track-at-once mode.

Thanks for the reply.  When I go to burn the cd, them problem happens when roxio starts converting the files to AIFF so maybe that's what's wrong.  By you suggesting that it might fix the problem if I get Roxio to convert them to AIFF I'm assuming that means this is an optional process.  So is there an option for me to have Roxio NOT convert the files to AIFF?  If so, where to I find this and what affect will this have on the final product?  I made sure that I'm burning in DAO mode too.  I'll also try saving the image and testing with QT.  Thanks for you help.

[tsantee]

Thanks for the reply.  When I go to burn the cd, them problem happens when roxio starts converting the files to AIFF so maybe that's what's wrong.  By you suggesting that it might fix the problem if I get Roxio to convert them to AIFF I'm assuming that means this is an optional process.  So is there an option for me to have Roxio NOT convert the files to AIFF?  If so, where to I find this and what affect will this have on the final product?  I made sure that I'm burning in DAO mode too.  I'll also try saving the image and testing with QT.  Thanks for you help.

The source audio files need to be 16 bit, 44.1 khz AIFF or WAV to be used in an audio CD or enhanced CD. Otherwise they wouldn't play in a CD player.

[joshuadmwilliams]

The source audio files need to be 16 bit, 44.1 khz AIFF or WAV to be used in an audio CD or enhanced CD. Otherwise they wouldn't play in a CD player.

Our source file are 16 bit 44.1 khz WAV files.  When we burn the cd, everything works fine and it plays in cd players but it adds the 2 second gap back in even after we set it to 0 seconds.  It switches from 0 seconds back to 2 seconds when it starts converting the WAV file to AIFF files.  Do you know why that would be happening?