Pause command in CD Architect 4 and 5

Digitdan wrote on 3/18/2003, 4:32 PM
Concerning the pause command that CD Architect 4 or 5 adds to the CD image, inserted between the tracks. Does the software actually add just a logic "pause" command that is picked up by the CD player, or does it physically add two (or more) blank seconds between the tracks? I think it is just a logic command, since one of my Computer PC based CD audio players just ignors the pause command, and plays the wave file tracks back to back. If it were the addition of two blank seconds, at the end of each wave file, then theoretically, no player could ignor the blank section.
My other dedicated hardware CD players do a countdown in-between the tracks, and then revert to a count-up when the actual music tracks are played back.
I have noticed this same "in-between-track" phenomenon with commercially available CD's, such as the Mannheim Steamroller Christmas series.
If it is a logic command, is it embedded into the table of contents section on the CD?

Comments

Geoff_Wood wrote on 3/19/2003, 3:22 PM
"Pause command ?!!!" What pause command ? There is no pause command - there is a default 'pause time' between tracks, which is an area between track end and the subsequent start marker, which can contain either silence or audio. This can be adjusted to zero or whatever.

It should play through on a dedicated CD player, or computer CD playing application (if correctly implemented). Maybe some are not, which would make it a pain to play contiguous music with embedded track markers, but that's not CDA5's fault.

geoff