(fax) musicmatch continuous rip

[Andrew Keyser]

Don't use MP3.

Simple as that... use a program and file format that properly supports "gapless" playback, such as Ogg Vorbis (if you want it compressed like MP3 is) or FLAC (if you want it full quality like WAV is, at roughly half the file size of WAV) for the file format, and EAC for the ripper. At your option, you could use iTunes, if you want to be locked into their proprietary file format kingdom. Ogg Vorbis and FLAC are both free, open source codecs.

MP3, without any special extensions, is fundamentally unable to play without a gap between two seperate songs and the "remove gap" features of audio players is artificial and may not be entirely accurate (not removing enough of the gap, or removing too much, cutting into "real" audio).
The LAME MP3 encoder can encode data about the end of the track in the header so that a program that understands these special instructions can accurately remove any gap, but it's still just a workaround for a flaw in the way MP3 is designed.

Andrew Keyser


----- Original Message ----
From: Jim Greenman <jimbogreenman at yahoo.com>
To: faxlist at 2350.org
Sent: Thursday, January 4, 2007 8:01:53 AM
Subject: (fax) musicmatch continuous rip

Whenever I try to record a CD which has continuous music, Musicmatch puts a gap between the songs. 
   
  Does anyone know how to stop this from happening?
   
   
   
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