Slightly techie help required.

I've been converting audio to mp3 using WMP 9/10 for quite a while now. No problems with 'normal' albums and individual tracks but how do you get rid the gaps between tracks you get when converting a 'mix' album?

Obviously each track is turned into an individual file hence the small gap when you play back. Funnily enough if I play back through WMP the gaps aren't noticable but once on a CD they are.

Any advice?

Slightly techie help required.

I've been converting audio to mp3 using WMP 9/10 for quite a while now. No problems with 'normal' albums and individual tracks but how do you get rid the gaps between tracks you get when converting a 'mix' album?

Obviously each track is turned into an individual file hence the small gap when you play back. Funnily enough if I play back through WMP the gaps aren't noticable but once on a CD they are.

Any advice?

Do you mean your burning them back as a audio cd?

you can set the gap between tracks on audio cds when using a burning program like nero

Do you mean your burning them back as a audio cd?

you can set the gap between tracks on audio cds when using a burning program like nero

Default I think is a 2 second gap, but this can be reduced to 0 I think in Nero. What software are you burning it to CD with?

Chris

Sorry. I'll expand.

I put an audio CD in the drive, fire up WMP and then 'rip' the tracks into MP3 format. These are saved (by default) in My Documents/My Music. I then burn the MP3 files to CD to play in the car. I use either Sonic or the XP CD burning function depending on what mood I'm in.

As I said, the gaps aren't a problem with a normal CD of say ten individual tunes as there are gaps between tracks anyway. The problem is when I rip a mix CD, each track is supposed to merge into the next but obviously as each track is now a data file the equipment I play it on takes a second or two to move onto the next file.

There. Clear as mud.

Yes, sounds like the default 2 second gap you get with most audio-cd burning app.

The 2 second gap is in fact a pre-track gap (you get a -02, -01, -00) countdown.

Most burning software will allow you to remove that pre-track gap, Nero included. But I don't know for Sonic / XP CD burning as I have only ever used Nero.

The difference is burning at track at once and disc at once, the latter means that you lose the gap totally. Nero does this, but not sure about sonic

If I've understood correctly, Rich isn't talking about turning the MP3s into audio tracks but getting the MP3s to play without gaps.

Some software MP3 players have plugins that let you play files in a playlist without gaps (I found one for Wimamp) but I don't think there's a way of doing that on a hardware player.

The only work round I can think of is to rip CDs that need to be played continuously as a single file. This is easy to do in CDex, which lets you select any section from a disc for ripping.

The only work round I can think of is to rip CDs that need to be played continuously as a single file. This is easy to do in CDex[/url'], which lets you select any section from a disc for ripping.

Correct, if they are separate files you will always have a slight gap. Tried all sorts of programs etc but to no avail and as a single file is a pain for selecting songs on your MP3 Player.