OFF: MP3 players

[Chris Allen]

There are settings in your CD burning software which usually inserts a 2
second silence between tracks.  Alsi some ripping software can add silence
to the start and finish of the tracks.

C.

----- Original Message -----
From: "William Duffy" <xl5 at IINET.NET.AU>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 2:32 PM
Subject: Re: OFF: MP3 players


> Hi again
>
> Thanks for the info, but I am still none the wiser. When I play MP3 files
> from CD on my computer some software has a habit of placing a gap between
> tracks, yet others (such as Winamp) don't.
>
> What I was wanting to know the answer to doesn't relate to playing MP3
files
> on my PC, but on portable MP3-CD Players, as well as DVD Players that also
> play MP3 files. I'm looking at possibly purchasing one, but don't like the
> idea of hearing separate tracks that are linked together in some way with
a
> gap in the middle.
>
> William
>
>
> > Hi ya,
> >
> > > Can anyone tell me if any of the MP3-CD Players or DVD Players play
> MP3's
> > > without leaving gaps between tracks, as I've been considering the
> purchase
> > > of a player, but only if I know I can enjoy listening to the tracks
> without
> > > hearing a gap that should not always be there, such as where tracks
are
> > > either live or linked together?
> >
> > The answer is yes/no, if you mp3 encode one side of an album you will
> > hear it the way it should be.
> >
> > mp3 is audio compression.  It is not like *.zip or *.tgz file
> > compression however.
> > When you decompress *.zip or *.tgz files you get exactly what you
> > started with.
> >
> > When you decompress mp3 files you do not get exactly what you started
> > with, you get something that will sound the same as what you started
> > with, and it can be very good, at the sacrifice of file size you can get
> > much better than cd quality from mp3.
> >
> > My guess is that there will always be a start and/or end gap on a track
> > because with mp3 the aim is for good compression.
> >
> > The Mp3 players I've seen are very, very good.  If you encode a cd as
> > one track you will hear it as one track.  If you encode a vynal album,
> > and you have enougth memory on the player you can get much better than
> > cd quality.  Which blows my mind because with mp3 you never get back
> > what you put in, but if you want quality its there.
> >
> >
> > Chris
> > --
> > There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the
> > truth without lying.
> >
>