:grumpy: Can't see how to do it. :(

I use this "Ahead Nero" thing and know perfectly well how to burn a regular CD and remove the 2 second gaps, but when it comes to burning MP3s (which obviously it sees as a mere data CD) I get annoying gaps.

I've got this hardcore classics CD for the car but it really bothers me when it pauses between tracks. :thumbdwn: Dance music is supposed to flow seamlessly for the duration of the CD.

Last resort is join the MP3s into 1 long track, but I'd still like to skip if I think one song is a duffer.i

So you've just got MP3s as data on the CD? If so, I think it's more down to your MP3-compatible headunit, rather than Nero.

If you're converting MP3s into an audio CD, you can tell it not to insert gaps, as you correctly say.

Steve

I think this is a characteristic of Nero. Something to do with cluster sizes etc. I don't think there is a hack available for it so you could try another burning program. This may be of help too.

Hmm, according to that the burn is as per the data, so it should stop one "track" or file as it sees it, and start playing the next. I wonder if there's a setting on the Pioneer to remove the gap between tracks? Time to dig out the destructions.

damnit! Nothing in there. Can someone MSN me / link to a decent MP3 joiner please? Easier to just make the 3 CDs into 3 long MP3s and burn that (got 200 blank CD-Rs to waste anyway )

I could be wrong but I think you've asked this question before Jason. A very long time ago when you were just a boy. Now get searching through those 15,000 posts... :P

"MP3 removing gaps" only brings up this thread as a result. :P

You can do it in Nero, I use that. Can't find it offhand now either, but you can do it.

Can't seem to do it when burning MP3s though. Like I said I'd sooner find a decent MP3 joiner. Any advice welcome.

But this is for "tracks" as in audio/WMA/WAV files. It doesn't see MP3 files as anything other than data so the track setting function is rubbish. With so many CD-Rs spare I may as well expand each MP3 CD back to WAV and do as you say, Martin. Make 3 CDs instead

It's your headunit inserting the gaps as most MP3 capable players don't have the ability to start one file playing as soon as the other stops.

Nothing you do in nero will change this

Oh, I'll try and do it using "audio CD" then. I always use the "data CD" option as thats what it is.

Shall give it a shot using audio CD function, but I didn't think it would see an MP3 as an audio track. Might be wrong

Experimentation tonight then.

Go the audio cd route. But you will only get 74-80 mins of music per disk.

edit. oh and yes, you can create an audio cd from mp3's. Just drag the MP3 files into the track list.

If you want to remove any quiet bits from MP3s I think you will need to convert them to Wav format first

as MP3s are a compressed format I dont think it's easy to do

(also I do it this way because it keeps the quaility of the MP3)

maybe time consuming converting the songs to Wav then converting them back to mp3

I have some good programs on my home computer for creating and adjusting MP3s and waves next time you see me on msn I can tell you more about them

"MP3 removing gaps" only brings up this thread as a result. :P

Must have dreamt it then. Happens to me alot...