Ripping Cd's Question

[jak]

Hey Everybody
I had a question about burning cd's I have ripped to my pc.No matter what I do I am getting a gap between each track.No big deal except when I burn a concert cd.I have media player and cdburner xp that I have been using.I have it set to audio cd.Is that gap unavoidable?Thanks for any help.
Jak

[Getlo]

I have the same problem when I rip concert CDs. I use the basic CD copying software that comes with Windows Millennium (or whatever it's called) ... is there any way around that?

[jak]

If you ripped them as Wav. files you can burn them using Nero and disable the 2 second pause menu in Nero.

I've heard Nero mentioned many times but I've never tried it.Sounds like that was the tip I needed.
Thanks

[malc07]

If you use nero you can change the gap in between tracks and even have no gap whatsoever.nero 7 gives you the wave editor too which is very handy if you wish to edit any tracks.hope this helps

[jak]

A big thank you for the advice about using nero.I downloaded the trial version and it's great.Problem solved.
Thanks Again
Jak

[Albert]

I always use Exact Audio Copy (www.exactaudiocopy.de). It's free and considered by many audio-crazy-people as the best.

It can rip cd's simply to mp3's and wav's. But it can also detect gaps (on live cd's they should be 0 seconds), rip the whole album to one wav file + a cue-sheet with the gap information. When you burn this cue-file with nero as an image, all gap-settings will be intact. Your cd-copy will have no gaps at all.

Live cd's should always be burned at a low speed (try 1/2 of the maximum speed of your recordable) and with little to none tasks at the background. Because eventhough there will be no gaps burned, Nero still have to burn the marks where the songs end and begin.

[waymore44]

I always still heard the skip a little even when I took out the pause. The only way to avoid that , that I found when burning a live CD from mp3's was to cross fade them for 1-2 seconds. Basically one track fades up while the other fades down. You NEVER hear that if the track hits in the middle of applause. Sometimes this doesn't work if the song is a cold start, so you have to kind of play with it in the properties inbetween each track it will let you hear a preview of what it's going to do on the CD.