MP3 extraction

Posted by: Fraser Hadden on 28 October 2003

Has anyone mastered the art of extracting a whole CD's worth of live music without having tiny (maybe 0.2s) gaps between tracks?
Extracting the whole CD as a single track works no better than extracting the tracks singly - there is still the tiny interruption as one track segues into the next.
That the gap is so short argues that this problem does not relate to the 2s inter-track gap which is the CD standard save for live CDs.

Any ideas?

Fraser
Posted on: 28 October 2003 by Martin Payne
Fraser,

are you recording a new CD of the extracted audio, or playing the WAV files directly on the PC?

cheers, Martin

E-mail:- MartinPayne at Dial.Pipex.com
Posted on: 28 October 2003 by Fraser Hadden
I'm abstracting .mp3 files from the original CD for playback either on the computer itself or an Mp3-compatible DVD player.

Both playback modalities play back the supposed single datastream with these little glitches.

Fraser
Posted on: 28 October 2003 by John Channing
Extracting the whole CD as a single track works no better than extracting the tracks singly

That should not be the case. If you rip an album of say, 15 tracks, to a single MP3 track it does play without any glitches. Download a free copy of iTunes and it is easy to do this.
John
Posted on: 28 October 2003 by TomK
I've found the opposite sometimes happens. When I've downloaded an MP3 album (normally a live bootleg but sometimes one to preview before buying - honest!) and convert it to WAV there is sometimes an annoying short gap between tracks (not the 2 sec gap). It's not difficult to remove but it can be a pain.
Posted on: 30 October 2003 by Fraser Hadden
John,

I have duly downloaded iTunes. I cannot, however, find how to extract a run of tracks as a single file. Also, extraction of single tracks is incredibly slow - about 0.3x compared with the already achingly-tedious 1.5x achieved by my Plextor software. Computer is old (450MHz Pentium III) but the disparity in performances of the two pieces of software is still considerable.

Have I missed something?

Fraser