Getting rid of gap between tracks on CD

[NeilC]

I use Nero to burn CDs.

It has a "no gap between tracks" option and I use the DAO option. This NEARLY gets rid of the 2 second gap but doesn't quite. There is still a little skip between tracks. For dance mix cds you don't want any gap at all.

Anyone know how to stop this gap or suggest an app that works?

Cheers

[Meffy]

That ought to do it; works fine for me. Have you examined the tracks to see if they need any silence chopt off?

[skoob]

If you are burning from MP3 files, you've just hit one of the limitations of that format. LAME (the high quality MP3 encoder) can add tags that will enable players that support those tags to play LAME encoded MP3 files seamlessly, but this only works if you use LAME as your encoder and you encode the separate tracks from one continuous source file. Other format, such as Ogg Vorbis, have support for gapless playback built in.

Anyway, if you do have MP3 files with gaps, you could try using a sound editor (e.g. Audacity (http://audacity.sf.net)) to cut out any silence and crossfading between the tracks. You could also try this software: http://www.oro.net/~tfabris/gapkill.htm

[Jon.]

If you're using wav files (you should be if you want good quality sound), there's a freeware utility called WavTrim (google it, it's easy to find) that will cut out the gaps.

[Meffy]

Burning a CD from mp3s? *shudder* Ah well, it's a big world.

[BenK]

I came across this blog (http://blog.wired.com/music/index.blog?from=20060720)that might help. It's the opposite problem you're having but you may still be able to apply it.

[LeCynthia]

If you are burning from MP3 files, you've just hit one of the limitations of that format. LAME (the high quality MP3 encoder) can add tags that will enable players that support those tags to play LAME encoded MP3 files seamlessly, but this only works if you use LAME as your encoder and you encode the separate tracks from one continuous source file. Other format, such as Ogg Vorbis, have support for gapless playback built in.

Anyway, if you do have MP3 files with gaps, you could try using a sound editor (e.g. Audacity (http://audacity.sf.net)) to cut out any silence and crossfading between the tracks. You could also try this software: http://www.oro.net/~tfabris/gapkill.htm

Audacity rocks.

[Dog Boots]

CDs are divided into "sectors". Each sector has a specific length measured in bytes (something like 2730 or something....I'm too lazy to look it up. IIRC it's 1/75 of a second in length). A tracks length is an integer of sectors, and if the last sector is not used, it will be filled with zeroes. Therefore, you have to match your tracks to this length.

CD Architect from Sonic Foundry (which, I guess, is now Sony (?)) can do this intuitively. (Costs money)