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Old 10-14-2003, 04:21 AM   #23
framesaver
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Sorry Magnetic, you're clearly misinformed. To quote from http://www.geocities.com/altbinaries...l/mp3gaps.html,

"1. WHAT ARE MP3 GAPS?
These are the short silence gaps at the beginning or end of music tracks that result from ENCODING an audio track into mp3 format. They are NOT the gaps on a CD between audio tracks put there by the CD manufacturer. mp3 gaps were NOT there originally and are merely an artifact of the encoding process. These sections of silence are needed by the mp3 encoder and decoder to ensure that there are an equal number of "samples" in each part or "frame" of the mp3 file. The mp3 encoder/decoder needs this so that it can perform its frequency analysis properly in order to compress and later play back the audio signal.

Almost every audio track encoded to mp3 will have these small gaps added to either the beginning and/or end of the final mp3 file. Generally they are less than a second (often 0.1-0.2 seconds long) and may not noticeable at all. But they clearly can be heard when playing tracks sequentially where no break originally occured in the sound or playing between tracks on the CD. Operas and vocal works are an example where this happens frequently."

To actually remove these when you go to burn an audio cd, you need to convert them back to wav and trim them ever so slightly in Cool Edit or what have you, paste them all back together and re-index the entire file, which obviously noone's going to do. Folks are just happy enough to burn straight from mp3, and if they're happy about that, that's grand. The shn circles are just people who just like to have EXACT copies of the source show as it was made, just like copying the entire cd as is to put it in the post. There's no need to be such an arse about singing the praises of your beloved mp3.
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