Technical Question 4 The Know-It-Alls....

[C-4]

CD Burning Question.....

Ok I got a couple of mixtapes that I downloaded right, and I'm tryin to burn them, and they're set up with the tracks running right behind each other so the mix is continuous throughout the whole cd right. And it sounds fine on the computer, but when I burn it, there is just a slight bit of like a pause in between each track for some reason, and I'm burning it on Disc At Once so it's sposed to put all the tracks right together so there's no space in between them, but for some reason it still will have that little tiny bit of hesitation or pause or whatever between each one, how can I get rid of that so the mix is continuous???

 

[Big Robb]

if u use cd creator u can over lay the track slighty or greatly depending on ur choice, once u lay the trackz out u want right click the option to the far right, can leave desinagted time gaps or desiganted over lays for each track.............might help ya

 

[Leon Kage]

use music match jukebox and you shouldnt have that (if you're using it now, & still getting the gap, it means your burn speed is set too high)

 

[lunitunez]

burn it as Disc-At-Once (DAO), instead of TAO track at once. that should fix it right there.

 

[DJ Mark 7]

ALOT of times when mix CDs are made into mp3s, there's a pause...No real way of getting around it. Matters how they were encoded

There ya go a fuckin KNOW IT NONE

lol

 

[Pimperoni]

Maybe I'm off here, but all you do is Burn it with NERO and highlight all of the tracks

Once highlighted, just right click and instead of a 2 second pause make it 0 seconds


Simple as that, worked for my DJ Rectangle (who scratches) mixtape

 

[C-4]

i tried it with Easy CD Creator, and with Music Match, came out the same, converted the MP3's to Wavs, came out just a little bit better, but still a slight pause on some songs, didn't try to lower the speed though

Mark 7, that sucks, so if u can't get ahold of that shit to buy it, basically ur screwed cuz if u download it, it's gonna sound annoying as fuck if the transition from song to song aint smooth

haven't tried Nero

 

[D-Style]

i tried it with Easy CD Creator, and with Music Match, came out the same, converted the MP3's to Wavs, came out just a little bit better, but still a slight pause on some songs, didn't try to lower the speed though

Mark 7, that sucks, so if u can't get ahold of that shit to buy it, basically ur screwed cuz if u download it, it's gonna sound annoying as fuck if the transition from song to song aint smooth

haven't tried Nero

You could get a wav editor like goldwave or soundforge (goldwaves demo is fully functional whereas soundforge is not) and delete the space inbetween the tracks. That way you can burn the mix as one song and it'll come out perfectly. It's really easy to do just load all the tracks into the wav editor and paste them one after the other. Then delete the gap between each of the songs. You can download goldwave at http://www.goldwave.com/

It also has a lot to do with your cd player. When a continuous mix is split up most of the time there's going to be some silence inbetween the tracks even if it was professionally made. Sometimes your cd player takes a little time (half a second or more) to read the beginning of the next track. So the best way to get around this would be to connect all of the tracks.

 

[Sick Wid It]

There is a 'pause' or 'gap' setting for each track. It's set to 2 by default. Just change it to 0 in your burning software.

You might also need to uncompress the mp3's to .wav and then use a sample editor to change the silence at the start & end of each track.

 

[Sick Wid It]

It also has a lot to do with your cd player. When a continuous mix is split up most of the time there's going to be some silence inbetween the tracks even if it was professionally made. Sometimes your cd player takes a little time (half a second or more) to read the beginning of the next track. So the best way to get around this would be to connect all of the tracks.

That's not true. The gap time between tracks (except for the first one) is a SETTING in the TOC. It's set to 2 by default. It's very easy to eliminate by simply changing the setting to 0 for each track in your burning software.

And cd players take zero time to read the beginning of a 'next' track when playing a cd straight thru. The start of the next track follows immediately after the last one so the laser doesnt have to move anywhere, it just keeps reading forward.

As a matter of fact, there are no 'tracks' on audio cds. When you burn a cdda, all the tracks are turned into one huge 44.1khz 16bit stereo sample (redbook format). The track indexes (ie: location on the cd) are then written to the cd's table-of-contents. When you skip tracks the cd player just gets the new location for whichever track you selected from the TOC and then just goes there.

 

[Pimperoni]

I feel so smart