Ripping help.....

[JustTheTip]

I've recently been ripping some cds into mp3 format, and have come across a bit of a bump in the road - whenever I rip a cd which has the tracks blended together (mixed), each individual track gets stored as a separate mp3. This produces a very annoying second-or-so gap on playback in the car.

Anyone know a way to get rid of the gap?

TIA

Tip

[Balmoral Green]

Drive around the bumps?

[wedg1e]

Hum? Whistle?

[john_p]

Gap between MP3s is really down to the player, not the MP3 itself. I have a plugin for Winamp that mixes them together just fine.

Of course if you burn them as one big file (could join them back together with Cooledit or Goldwave) then you won't be able to easily select a track you like in the mix ..

[Bodo]

Gapless plackback is not possible with the mp3 format. It may be electronically simulated, but it will always loose frames.
Gapless plackback is possible with the Ogg Vorbis format (*.ogg), but I don't know of any CD-Player that supports Ogg Vorbis. It's mostly harddrive or flash memory players that do.
Have a look at a Ogg Vorbis supported hardware lists:

http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/VorbisHardware

[c c]

You could use a wave editor and join the tracks together to make one big mp3.

[mcflurry]

put a 4 frame "overlap" when burning

[Lois]

My greenday album has that on but when I ripped it they were saved as one (just a long title!).

[JustTheTip]

mcflurry said:

put a 4 frame "overlap" when burning

How would I do that?

I should probably say that I use Pinnacle my MP3 pro.....

[JustTheTip]

anonymous said:

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Do you mean it has the overlap? What program have you used? This is all much more hassle than it should be!!

[Lois]

I just ripped straight into windows media player and it did it all itself.
Runs lovely!

[JustTheTip]

I didn't realise you could rip into windows media player - damn the geek at PC World for making me buy such a tedious bit of software! (apologies to any PC World geek/PH hybrids).

[Lois]

Whether it depends on the version I don't know but mine's version 10 and has a "rip" button. Does everything automatically.

[JustTheTip]

I don't believe it. I have the exact same thing. I've been fleeced by someone who only works part-time to fund his quake and Dungeons and Dragons habits!

Bah!

(thanks for the pointer!)

[mcflurry]

WMP is very slow. I would recommend a trawl of download.com for all the required stuff (all is legal and above board on there)

In the advanced audio settings there is a choice for the gap between tracks, normally set to 2 seconds. If you set it to zero you will hear a "clunk" between tunes. The overlap merges the two tracks to avoid such an issue. It is on ezcd, sonic and nero that I know of in some form or other...