I am going to be ripping my CDs to WAVs, but I want it to be gapless (there will be no burning, just playing on computer).
With EAC, here is what I do.
1 - Make sure all title info, artist info, etc... is correct.
2 - Action | Detect Gaps
3 - Action | Test Gaps on Silence
4 - Action | Leave Out Gaps
5 - Action | Test & Copy Selected Tracks | Uncompressed
Is that right?
Also, in step 2 above, on one or two tracks it will say that the track has a peak of 0.08% or something else. What should I do with these tracks?
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you don't need to detect gaps manually before ripping. make sure that you have chosen the right mode of detecting the gaps (a - secure etc for example).
if you want 1:1 copies of your cds chose "append gaps to previous track" and use the "noncomplient cuesheet". but anyway those features in eac only touch the 00 indexes. what you mean by "ripping gapless" is probably that you don't have little pauses on a live album for example. and those gapless (without pauses) albums actually don't have a 00 index. the wav codec itself IS gapless (or provides gapless playback)
if you want to remove digital silence (which is actually on the original cd) at the end and the beginning of a track there's a special option in the eac preferences. but this way you don't copy the cd 1:1 but modify the data.
if you want 1:1 copies of your cds chose "append gaps to previous track" and use the "noncomplient cuesheet". but anyway those features in eac only touch the 00 indexes. what you mean by "ripping gapless" is probably that you don't have little pauses on a live album for example. and those gapless (without pauses) albums actually don't have a 00 index. the wav codec itself IS gapless (or provides gapless playback)
if you want to remove digital silence (which is actually on the original cd) at the end and the beginning of a track there's a special option in the eac preferences. but this way you don't copy the cd 1:1 but modify the data.
"Leave out gaps" is a no-no in most situations.
AFAIK is only there to "fix" some CDs burned with 2-sec additional gaps.
To preserve the playing time, as well as the structure of the CD (even if not for burning, is the best thing to do, IMHO) you either DO NOT DETECT GAPS of choose "append to previous track" if you perform detection prior to extraction.
Sometimes, the CDs actually have information stored on the gaps, which you would lose if "leaving out gaps".
Just do not detect before extraction and you will be fine.
And, if you use Foobar2000, you do not even have to care as to which format you encode to. MP3 is gapless now, you know.
AFAIK is only there to "fix" some CDs burned with 2-sec additional gaps.
To preserve the playing time, as well as the structure of the CD (even if not for burning, is the best thing to do, IMHO) you either DO NOT DETECT GAPS of choose "append to previous track" if you perform detection prior to extraction.
Sometimes, the CDs actually have information stored on the gaps, which you would lose if "leaving out gaps".
Just do not detect before extraction and you will be fine.
And, if you use Foobar2000, you do not even have to care as to which format you encode to. MP3 is gapless now, you know.
QUOTE(AtaqueEG @ Jul 27 2003, 01:11 AM)
"Leave out gaps" is a no-no in most situations.
AFAIK is only there to "fix" some CDs burned with 2-sec additional gaps.
To preserve the playing time, as well as the structure of the CD (even if not for burning, is the best thing to do, IMHO) you either DO NOT DETECT GAPS of choose "append to previous track" if you perform detection prior to extraction.
Sometimes, the CDs actually have information stored on the gaps, which you would lose if "leaving out gaps".
Just do not detect before extraction and you will be fine.
And, if you use Foobar2000, you do not even have to care as to which format you encode to. MP3 is gapless now, you know.
AFAIK is only there to "fix" some CDs burned with 2-sec additional gaps.
To preserve the playing time, as well as the structure of the CD (even if not for burning, is the best thing to do, IMHO) you either DO NOT DETECT GAPS of choose "append to previous track" if you perform detection prior to extraction.
Sometimes, the CDs actually have information stored on the gaps, which you would lose if "leaving out gaps".
Just do not detect before extraction and you will be fine.
And, if you use Foobar2000, you do not even have to care as to which format you encode to. MP3 is gapless now, you know.
aac is not gapless (but hopefully will in future) as far as i know
QUOTE(Xenion @ Jul 26 2003, 06:14 PM)
aac is not gapless (but hopefully will in future) as far as i know
You got me there...
My mistake
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