Gapless audio cd?!

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#1

Does anyone know how to do this properly ive been tryin all day long…I converted the mp3 file into wav format and associated it with the cue file… now the cue file plays completely “gapless” when i play it on my computer and i am also able to skip tracks no problem…trouble is when i burn the cue file to disc, there is a tiny gap in between songs, like a split second “jump” i’m just curious how to get it completely seamless is it possible or has the cd got gaps burned in2 them?

PERFORMER “”
TITLE “Clubland 11 - CD1”
FILE “Clubland 11 - CD1.wav” WAVE
TRACK 01 AUDIO
TITLE “A Never Ending Dream”
PERFORMER “Cascada”
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 02 AUDIO
TITLE “Work (Riffs and Rays Mix)”
PERFORMER “Masters At Work”
INDEX 01 02:44:29
TRACK 03 AUDIO
TITLE “Baby Baby”
PERFORMER “Sandy Sunblock”
INDEX 01 05:20:25
TRACK 04 AUDIO
TITLE “Sure Feels Good (Resonance Q Mix)”
PERFORMER “Ultrabeat Vs Darren Styles”
INDEX 01 08:24:00
TRACK 05 AUDIO
TITLE “When Love Becomes A Lie”
PERFORMER “Liz Kay”
INDEX 01 11:57:21
TRACK 06 AUDIO
TITLE “Show Me Heaven (Ultrabeat Mix)”
PERFORMER “Micky Modelle Vs Jesse”
INDEX 01 15:15:44
TRACK 07 AUDIO
TITLE “Heaven (Ultrabeat Mix)”
PERFORMER “DJ Manian feat Aila”
INDEX 01 19:05:07
TRACK 08 AUDIO
TITLE “Magic Touch (Headhunters Mix)”
PERFORMER “M&C feat Rebecca Rudd”
INDEX 01 22:06:63
TRACK 09 AUDIO
TITLE “Music Is Pumping”
PERFORMER “Porn Kings Vs Flip And Fill”
INDEX 01 26:15:17
TRACK 10 AUDIO
TITLE “Rush On Me (Riffs and Rays Mix)”
PERFORMER “Eighteen feat Stephanie Mills”
INDEX 01 29:34:13
TRACK 11 AUDIO
TITLE “Amazed (Pascal Mix)”
PERFORMER “Dancing DJ’s feat Caroline Griffin”
INDEX 01 33:26:18
TRACK 12 AUDIO
TITLE “Halfway To Heaven”
PERFORMER “Melanie Flash”
INDEX 01 38:06:15
TRACK 13 AUDIO
TITLE “Let Me Be The One”
PERFORMER “Karen Danzig”
INDEX 01 41:23:34
TRACK 14 AUDIO
TITLE “Heaven And Earth”
PERFORMER “Flip And Fill feat Jo James”
INDEX 01 45:43:36
TRACK 15 AUDIO
TITLE “It Must Have Been Love”
PERFORMER “Friday Night Posse Vs Soraya”
INDEX 01 48:38:54
TRACK 16 AUDIO
TITLE “Never Gonna Let You Go (Bad Behaviour Mix)”
PERFORMER “Delusion feat Jenna C”
INDEX 01 51:49:14
TRACK 17 AUDIO
TITLE “Lucky Star”
PERFORMER “Killa Deejays feat Sarah”
INDEX 01 55:16:00
TRACK 18 AUDIO
TITLE “Headbone Connected”
PERFORMER “Maximum Spell”
INDEX 01 59:02:50
TRACK 19 AUDIO
TITLE “Rise Again (Darren Styles Mix)”
PERFORMER “Breeze Vs Lost Witness”
INDEX 01 64:16:50
TRACK 20 AUDIO
TITLE “More And More (Alex K Mix)”
PERFORMER “Hixxy”
INDEX 01 69:40:16
TRACK 21 AUDIO
TITLE “Tricky Disco”
PERFORMER “Discotronic”
INDEX 01 74:55:46

#2

Is it one big mp3 or loads of separate files ?? what are you burning with ?? nero, etc…

#3

Have a read of this tutorial , might be helpful.

#4

its one big mp3 file and i converted it to .wav format ive tried nero, burrn, EAC, and they all give the same “slight” gap in between songs…

#5

can anyone help me on this then?

#6

just use burrrn http://www.burrrn.net/?page_id=4
edit: just noticed you alredy did
i think its just silence in the end and/or start of each track , you can use a sound editor such as audacity http://audacity.sf.net to remove it or convert it with dbpoweramp/easy cd-da extractor they have an option/plugin for removing silence from end/start

#7

but the thing is the cue file i am burning plays COMPLETELY gapless when played on the computer in winamp even look at the cue file , theres no gaps, so where are these gaps coming from?

#8

From the used burnmethod.

TAO vs. SAO / DAO.

goooooooooooogle ON.

#9

so is there any can change this burn method, i cant see an option to do that? and could you tell me what i need to change it to? please someone help me on this ive been spending hours on it

*** edit

I am using DAO “Disc At Once” which is supposed to not give me any gaps but it is so how can this be the problem?

#10

Use BURRRN for AudioCD, Nero sucks.

#11

I give up, , wasted about 10 cds trying to do this, the converted cue+wav file plays perfectly SEAMLESSLY on the computer and yet when i burn it to disc using DAO there seems to be very slight jumps/gaps at the end of each track,they arent big mabye about half a second but very noticeable, its just that i want the cd to play like it does from the cue file (live recording) on the comp but it just seems to be impossible…ive used foobar, nero, burrn,EAC and they are all giving me the exact same results…

I have also tried with splitting the cue+mp3 file and burning to disc using the “no pause between tracks” optionand this is the exact same…

I really can’t see what the problem is, i mean if it plays right through on the computer without one jump then surely it should be the same when on disc…i googled and read a bit about silences but did’nt read to much in2 it

#12

That is one reason why I always keep a few CDRWs around.

Nero has no associations for cuesheets by the way, so it would be impossible to use Nero. Both Burrrn and EAC can burn a single file with the cuesheet loaded.

I can’t see anything wrong with the cuesheet that would cause the glitches between tracks, nor can I see any faults in the burn methods. Since you say that playback is gapless this is truly puzzling.

I can only suggest that you discard the file along with the cuesheet and rip it once again. My personal preference for ripping is EAC which can also create a cuesheet.

In the event that the MP3 file was acquired elsewhere, try burning the file without converting it to WAV. The burnware already automatically converts the MP3 to WAv proir to burning. Just simply load the cuesheet and give it a try.

#13

I find Easy CD-DA Extractor does a nice job of doing this when you rip from a CD.
http://www.poikosoft.com/