Take a ripper that rips the whole CD in one big wav...

You're right, that method would certainly work. If you had one huge MP3, then trimmed it precisely at frame boundaries to split it into multiple tracks, that would work. However, that's a lot of trouble to go to. I know of no tool that lets me easily mark multiple MP3 trim points based on time indices. So that last step really is the tough one.

For now, I'm happy with my method (interactively trimming the gaps with the tool I wrote), and I'll probably switch over to Audiocatalyst anyway. This is all just academic until the Empeg can implement true gapless playback.

I recall now seeing a CD-ROM with all Beatles music with lyrics, sleeve graphics etc.

Yeah, I made one like that for my Rush collection. Can't distribute it, though, since it would be copyright infringement to do so. But it was a fun project just for personal use.


Tony Fabris
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