[Tfug] CD Ripping

[Terence Rudkin]

The break between tracks is a feature of MP3. OGG-Vorbis and other
FOSS media address this.  but thats about the extent of my knowledge/

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Bexley Hall <bexley401 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I carry a rescued MP3 player around on my daily (nightly?)
> walks -- since walking is *so* boring!  :<
>
> In general, I don't update the music on it very often.
> It's just more hassle than its worth and whatever is
> there is usually "good enough" to serve as a distraction.
>
> Recently, I *did* start changing the music.  And, noticed
> something that, had I thought about it ahead of time, I
> should have been wary of!
>
> The ripping software treats each "cut" on the CD as a
> separate "song".  I suspect the player deliberately inserts
> some fixed amount of dead space *between* songs during
> playback -- even if the songs were originally temporally
> contiguous.
>
> Note that vinyl, tape and even CD's are able to play their
> entire contents *without* gaps between songs.  I suppose
> the MP3 player *could* have been designed to NOT insert
> this gap (though how it would "separate" songs by different
> artists would be an issue).
>
> While this is mildly annoying on my walks, it would be
> *crippling* if all ripping/playback software had a similar
> problem!  I surely don't want to start digitizing my music
> collection only to find all my live recordings, etc.
> "broken up" into an arbitrary set of disjointed "cuts"!
>
> <frown>
>
> So, is this *just* an implementation issue that I am facing?
> Is it more likely in the *player* or *ripper*?  How do other
> tools/utilities deal with slicing "sides" of albums into
> discrete "cuts"?
>
>
>
>
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