blip at end of a track

iknowindigo wrote on 1/7/2004, 12:04 PM

Since this is my 2nd post today, I'll confess that I'm a first time user of CD Architect. Sorry to ask dumb questions.

I'm working on a CD. I notice that as I work, the end of the track is getting confusing. I guess I would have thoiught that as I slid a chunk of music back and forth, the track would keep lined up with the start and end of the music.

Anyway, I'm trying to live with the 2 second gap between songs, but I'm confused about the "end of the track" vs the "end of the sound byte."

When I play a test CD, I'm hearing soft burps at the very end of some tracks - perhaps only those tracks which I"m trying to do a fade out on.

My guess is that if I extend the "track" so it's longer than the "sound byte" I can eliminate this, but I'm not sure.

Can someone help me understand how to end a track, including fade out, or even cross fade, without a burp?

As I indicated in my first post today, I'm also confused about the 2 sec gap between tracks. How can you cross fade one track into another, and still put a gap of silence in between? And if you can do that, then why am I hearing silence on the test CD, when the software doesn't play silence before the burn?

Thanks,

Gene

Comments

Rednroll wrote on 1/7/2004, 3:16 PM

One of the best features about CD architect is that the audio and track ID's are seperate information that you can edit to your desire. You are probably moving the audio past the end of the last track end ID. The CD will only play until it reaches the end of the "Track ID". So your audio is probably getting cut off, because that's what you told it to do by not extending the track ID to the end of the audio. I'm not sure, because I use Vegas for most of my CD authoring, but there should be a preference setting where you can chose to lock track ID's to audio. This might make your life easier if you are new to CD architect.

iknowindigo wrote on 1/8/2004, 6:47 AM

Thanks so much for your help!

I made two posts yesterday, and solved both problems once I discovered that my problems were caused by using WinAmp on my computer to listen to CDs. If I put the CD in a real CD player, there was never a problem.

WinAmp is a nice program for playing MP3s for pleasure listening, but I will never use it again to listen to CDs.

Both Windows Media Player (which is way too complex for me to understand) and Real Player can play CDs as they were mastered.

Not sure which one of them I will settle with.

However, CD Architect wasn't putting any gap in at all - my player did the damage.

Thanks,

Gene

Geoff_Wood wrote on 1/11/2004, 8:07 PM

Also blips at ends of tracks can be caused it the audio ends on anything other than a 'zero'. Easiest way to avoid is to routinel fade the last fraction of a second, it no other fading being done.

geoff