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  1. Hi. I'm new at this. I've downloaded a concert with no problems. My problem is trying to burn the concert onto CD-Rs. I keep getting gaps in-between song tracks.

    How do you burn onto a cd-r without those gaps in between song tracks? I have used Widows Media Player and Roxio.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated!

  2. MP3 has and inserts a 1-2 second gap in between each song so you'll hear a short gap.

    You could try using a program called mp3directcut, available from http://mpesch3.de1.cc. Then load each song in, chop out the gaps (where the space is empty usually at the end and sometimes at the beginning) and save, then burn to disc. Using MP3DC takes a little while to learn but when you save it's lossless, meaning no changes to the format take place (or more technically known as re-sampling). So far, I've used it for about ten shows and has worked 90% of the time.

    Another program that apparently works is MP3trim from http://www.logiccell.com/~mp3trim/

    It's not lossless like it changes to FLAC but lossless refers to "less or no loss", and so it loses no quality, data etc which is important - and works on non-standard gapless devices too, say a CD player, MP3 player etc.

    If you want to know more:

    http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=mp3+2-second+gap&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
  3. Originally posted by dlvoilesHi. I'm new at this. I've downloaded a concert with no problems. My problem is trying to burn the concert onto CD-Rs. I keep getting gaps in-between song tracks.

    How do you burn onto a cd-r without those gaps in between song tracks? I have used Widows Media Player and Roxio.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated!




    Drew's got the answer covered, but I wanted to say welcome to U2Start. Please pop over here and introduce yourself:-

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  4. It's a pain in the arse but if you're using FLAC files they usually are gapless. But MP3s have this problem - I guess the original developers (there were several actually), which were Philips, CCETT, IRT, AT&T-Bell and Fraunhofer, didn't intend for it to be used for live concerts or mixes (the dance ones which I've suffered to in the past).




    And it has several limitations as well, one of which:

    Encoder/decoder overall delay is not defined, which means lack of official provision for gapless playback. However, some encoders such as LAME can attach additional metadata that will allow players that are aware of it to deliver seamless playback.

    Some hardware devices are capable of this too: namely the Logitech Squeezebox, Rio Karma, Apple iPod, Creative Zen, cheap Chinese imports, some CD players, portable MP3 players and car players as well as third-party software solutions such as Apple iTunes 6.0, Microsoft Windows Media Player 10, Foobar2000, Rockbox, iPod Linux and Songbird can handle gapless and cross-fading too.




    Probably a better solution for you (if you'd like to, it's not the best way necessarily but is more fool-proof) is to use MP3directcut as I posted earlier, cut each gap out at the end and beginning if one exists and then get a program called Foobar2000, with the MP3 codec for FB2000 to use and the burning engine.

    Foobar2000: http://www.foobar2000.org/
    LAME Encoder: http://lame.sourceforge.net/
    Foo_burninate: http://www.foobar2000.com/components/index.html



    For Burninate, you need to have Nero installed (I guess this is what burns the CD). That Foo_burninate.dll needs to be copied into a folder called \C:\Program Files\foobar2000\components. Add your files to the Foobar2000 window (drag and drop them in) then right-click on them all (like you select for Properties in Roxio) and choose Write Audio CD. Drop in a disc into your burner and click Write. Then hopefully you'd made the files gapless earlier - and then see what happens.
  5. Windows Media Player ALWAYS introduces a 2-second gap between the tracks. So I said "F*** to WMP. Let's use Nero". And, with Nero SoundTrax (and a little help from Nero Wave Editor to cut a bit the gaps) you can cross-fade the tracks, avoiding any gaps present on the mp3 file itself. It's great
  6. i know there is an option in itunes where you can make any album ''gapless''. This means it will have no pauses between songs. whether this works when you then burn the album to a cd i dont know because i have yet to try it. i fancy it would work though.
  7. Originally posted by robbie07i know there is an option in itunes where you can make any album ''gapless''. This means it will have no pauses between songs. whether this works when you then burn the album to a cd i dont know because i have yet to try it. i fancy it would work though.
    I guess it avoids the 2 second gap present on the Windows Media Player CDs, but NOT the small gaps present on the MP3 files themselves. Those need to be removed with MP3DirectCut as Drew pointed
  8. Originally posted by robbie07i know there is an option in itunes where you can make any album ''gapless''. This means it will have no pauses between songs. whether this works when you then burn the album to a cd i dont know because i have yet to try it. i fancy it would work though.


    I can confirm that it does. Tiniest stutter sometimes audible but nothing else. You have to tell iTunes to burn without a gap too in the advanced preferences. But then it's a winner. Never had to do anything to boots downloaded from here.
  9. Nero, click at 'No gaps between songs' and burn...
  10. Originally posted by LikeASongWindows Media Player ALWAYS introduces a 2-second gap between the tracks. So I said "F*** to WMP. Let's use Nero". And, with Nero SoundTrax (and a little help from Nero Wave Editor to cut a bit the gaps) you can cross-fade the tracks, avoiding any gaps present on the mp3 file itself. It's great


    Unfortunately WMP is probably the only way for me with CDs. iTunes never recognises them to import into my library, and with the dependence on it for Media Center, it's even more so needed. Not that it actually works, mind you.

    But this is the way it is - I'll try the 2-second option in Nero, but then I know there is some sort of other problem where the first song will always have a gap - it's the way it works. I haven't found any other way around that except by cutting the gaps.

    Some bootlegs that don't have a gap from memory:

    1983-06-05 Red Rocks
    2006-11-29 Saitama
    2006-03-02 Buenos Aires
    2001-05-03 Cleveland
    1997-04-28 Las Vegas
    1993-11-16 Adelaide

    I can't remember any more - but I know those ones in particular don't, even if you burn to CD.
  11. Sodding big topic this considering the guy hasn't checked back yet...
  12. My bad for not responding.

    Thanks to everyone for responding. I'm going to give a couple of the suggestions a whirl.

    If anyone of you have not seen the U23D movie yet, make it a point. It is incredibly well done. It felt like I was there at the concert itself. I'm hoping to make it back one more time, before it is taken off the screen.

    Again, thanks for everyone's suggestions and help!
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