Offish: CDR clicks at track points

[Paul Mather]

On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Mark Edmonds wrote:

=> I am using an app called Sonar to process WAVs and splitting these up prior
=> to burning onto CD. The problem I am getting is that there is a slight click
=> at each track point on the completed CD.

You are not splitting the WAVs on CD sector boundaries (2352 bytes/588
stereo samples).  So, these are being padded with zeros during burning,
to make them up to the correct sector length, which manifests itself as
tiny clicks at track transitions.

The solution: cut on CD sector boundaries.  CDWAVE will do this.
Shntool can also fix audio so it's correctly aligned on CD sector
boundaries.  Alternatively, if you use Windows, you could use Feurio! to
burn---it has a mode to round track breaks to the nearest sector (or
words to that effect---I don't use Feurio! as I don't use Windows).

There is a link to CDWAVE at http://www.etree.org/cdwave.html

Cheers,

Paul.

e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu

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