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What resulting gap?
the "gap" resulting from switching to the next ripped audio file.
you do not hear this when playing the cd
Then something is wrong with the setting, or it is ripped to lossy (like MP3). Or something isn't quite right with your player. Lossless files like ALAC/FLACs are naturally "gapless", they normally play the files as they are and there should be no audible break between tracks when there isn't supposed to be one. I have ripped lots of CDs with tracks segueing into each other, and none of them have audible gaps when it goes from one track into the next.
You could of course also rip a CD and combine several tracks into one, but that is usually not necessary.
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I finally had a chance to hear the work in its entirety. Absolutely stunning. From the melodic gothic sound of the first act to the chromatic harmony of the second, and the aleatoric terror of the third act, this work has a breadth to it that impresses.
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Some players DO automatically add a gap in between tracks. My car CD players does this and it's annoying as hell when playing live CDs or cues split over several tracks. We also had a CD player at a radio station I volunteered at back in the 90s that also added a gap. We had to be careful when playing multiple tracks by an artist that are usually played back to back (like Queen, Journey, INXS, etc) when choosing which CD player to load the music into.
I have LOTS of classical music CDs where long delicate tracks (like 30 minutes or even more) are segmented into many shorter tracks for easier access. No CD player I have ever owned, be it in a home stereo system or in a car or portable player, ever added any gaps between tracks. That would render a lot of CDs near useless, practically ALL opera CDs or live concert CDs would be practically a waste.
Note: I am not saying there are not some such CD players, I am just saying that I have never in all the decades of music listening ever came across such a CD player or even heard it mentioned. Fortunately.
However, that is not what Andy is saying, and it has since been clarified: he ripped to MP3, which indeed adds gaps to cues. Because even if a CD player added gaps during playback, it should never add gaps during ripping, because ripping programs should rip the exact data on the CD (provided you rip to ALAC/FLAC or other lossless formats), and if there are not gaps on a CD, they shouldn't (and technically couldn't) be ripped losslessly with gaps for obvious reasons. (Unless your settings specifically are set to add gaps of silence on purpose, of course.)
But I would be very interested to know what CD player automatically adds a gap between tracks? Can you name a model? Seriously, that would be quite interesting to me. Because I wonder: this should have been a major issue of contention when such a player was made or build. I certainly would have returned any player that adds gaps between tracks during playback, not matter in what decade I bought it. I imagine any serious audio magazine must have blasted such a CD player to pieces.
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Did anyone get ship notifications? Or did their CDs just show up?
Mine arrived in the mail yesterday (Dec. 7); I live 100 miles from the Santa Monica mailing address. No advance notice; just showed up.
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Some players DO automatically add a gap in between tracks. My car CD players does this and it's annoying as hell when playing live CDs or cues split over several tracks. We also had a CD player at a radio station I volunteered at back in the 90s that also added a gap. We had to be careful when playing multiple tracks by an artist that are usually played back to back (like Queen, Journey, INXS, etc) when choosing which CD player to load the music into.
I have LOTS of classical music CDs where long delicate tracks (like 30 minutes or even more) are segmented into many shorter tracks for easier access. No CD player I have ever owned, be it in a home stereo system or in a car or portable player, ever added any gaps between tracks. That would render a lot of CDs near useless, practically ALL opera CDs or live concert CDs would be practically a waste.
Note: I am not saying there are not some such CD players, I am just saying that I have never in all the decades of music listening ever came across such a CD player or even heard it mentioned. Fortunately.
However, that is not what Andy is saying, and it has since been clarified: he ripped to MP3, which indeed adds gaps to cues. Because even if a CD player added gaps during playback, it should never add gaps during ripping, because ripping programs should rip the exact data on the CD (provided you rip to ALAC/FLAC or other lossless formats), and if there are not gaps on a CD, they shouldn't (and technically couldn't) be ripped losslessly with gaps for obvious reasons. (Unless your settings specifically are set to add gaps of silence on purpose, of course.)
But I would be very interested to know what CD player automatically adds a gap between tracks? Can you name a model? Seriously, that would be quite interesting to me. Because I wonder: this should have been a major issue of contention when such a player was made or build. I certainly would have returned any player that adds gaps between tracks during playback, not matter in what decade I bought it. I imagine any serious audio magazine must have blasted such a CD player to pieces.
My 2016 Mazda 3 waits until each track ends before looking for the next track on the memory card. Very annoying, but I've always combined continuous tracks into one track, so it's not a killer.
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