Burning a gapless mix with Nero...

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...out of individually downloaded tracks, is it possible? I tried the 0 seconds gap between songs thing once but a very audible gap still remains. Thanks in advance.

― manuel (manuel), Monday, 26 July 2004 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

use the edit feature to splice the songs together.Otherwise the gapless thing really only is perfect for live recordings

― evan chronister (evan chronister), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Your source files, .mp3's, have little gaps at the beginning of tracks inserted when they are encoded. One (difficult) way around this is to convert the files to .wav (or .aiff) and then manually delete the gap from the .wav itself (this doesn't always work perfectly). The other thing is, if you're talking about a DJ mix, is to scour slsk for the entire mix in one file (usually 100 megs or so), and then convert it to .wav (it will be upwards of 700 megs), and use something like CD wav edit to cut up the gigantic .wav file. When you burn, you'll have no gaps.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 00:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Segued albums, DJ mixes and concert recordings create the one drawback in my futuristic iTunes world. I have got to the point where I just don't import them anymore, and it even puts me off buying them.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 00:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not sure (as I haven't done it), but I would imagine there's a way to rip the songs from the CD as one single .mp3 file (i.e. gap-less).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 00:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, yeah, I'm tempted to do that, but it's a bugger to then not be able to know which track is playing, or be able to skip straight to it. Also, an entire album as a single track kind of buggers up random play and depletes your iPod battery quickly.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

also, if you have "remove silence at end of tracks" ticked, it sometimes puts in a tiny gap. untick it and then make sure you have the gap between each track as "0".

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 00:23 (twenty-one years ago)

actually I looked into that "feature" and apparently it does *nothing*!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 00:29 (twenty-one years ago)

You might want to try using an mp3 mixer and inserting your own track listing to remove the gaps. I've used Acoustica MP3 Audio Mixer ( available for trial at http://www.acoustica.com/download.htm the Acoustica website. I've used this to mix tracks and then burned with Nero and the track progression is gapless. It's a pretty simple program to understand.

― Gregory T (tubesocks), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 00:45 (twenty-one years ago)

whoa, tried nero 6.0 out and somehow i pulled off a gapless cd! (ellen allien's weiss.mix)

just selected all the tracks, set the gap between songs to o and then chose 'disc-at-once' and it flows!

― manuel (manuel), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 01:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Great! Have you used the Wave Editor (asuming your version comes biundled with it) - really useful.

― Jez (Jez), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 05:52 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, perfect for chopping up live mixes

― manuel (manuel), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 06:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I think manuel's cracked it here- proper CD-Audios (The ones wot have no gaps between tracks) always need to be burned as "disc at once", not "track-at-once" (Which puts little gaps between tracks, even if you specify 0 secs between the tracks.)!!!! Remember not all CD burners do disc-at-once, so check your your CD-zapper!!!

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 09:29 (twenty-one years ago)

i've done perfectly gapless mixes using Nero but only by editing the files sufficiently or just pre-mixing them beforehand

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 09:31 (twenty-one years ago)

just look for a single file rip with a .cue file and then burn using the cue file. it's basically the tracklisting index sheet and makes your track markers in the mix without having to break the file up to individual tracks.

if all you have is the individual tracks, you're probably going to need to piece them together in a wav editor as suggested above.

that's why i implore any of you ripping a mix cd to do it as a image/cue - EAC is perfectly capable of doing this with the greatest of ease

― rentboy (rentboy), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)

DAO mode rules

http://www.fokus.fhg.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html

Lots of good CDR burning info there

― Whiskeytown Littlecock (ex machina), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 11:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Is that anything to do with that funny little feature of CD standards where individual tracks can have 'index marks' within them that you can skip between. My old CD player used to have INDEX < > buttons but the only CD I ever had that I noticed I could use them on was one of the Beach Boys boxed set discs with the Smile sessions. Maybe the Beatles Anthology set too, actually.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 11:53 (twenty-one years ago)

re: Alba - yes. you can put index markers in too, but i usually just stick with track markers in the cue sheet. then you can use the regular controls on your player rather than needing some special controls

― rentboy (rentboy), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Alba, intriguing. Go look around on that page I linked. There's info on the formats of karaoke cds, videocds, etc on there.

― Whiskeytown Littlecock (ex machina), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 12:01 (twenty-one years ago)

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