Comments on: CD burning

Question: CD burning

monkey closet — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 01:17:00 -0800

Is there a way to stop XP's built in CD burning tools (I'm currently burning stright from Media Player) leaving a small gap between tracks? Failing that, cheap/free software that will?

By: transient

transient — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 06:48:16 -0800

The way I do it (XP Home) is to import the songs into iTunes as WAV (not AAC or mp3), put everything onto a playlist and burn away. No gaps.

By: arco

arco — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 06:50:21 -0800

You can set the length of the gaps between songs in iTunes.

By: PinkStainlessTail

PinkStainlessTail — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 06:50:54 -0800

Exact Audio Copy should do this, either as a direct burn, or if you create a CUE sheet with zero second gaps between tracks. CDex might work too.

By: shepd

shepd — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:09:04 -0800

This is free, give it a shot.

By: sdrawkcab

sdrawkcab — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:18:34 -0800

I second iTunes. Booo media player.

By: caution live frogs

caution live frogs — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 12:04:42 -0800

iTunes is a resource hog on Windows, just so you know. I prefer Winamp, resouce-wise. You can burn CDs from playlists but you're speed-limited to about 4x unless you go for the pro version ($15, I think? Also enables more CD ripping options.)

The crappy free Roxio software that comes with some CD burners you ought to avoid at all costs: I have at home a stack of about 50 CDs I burned in my lab for a road trip, and every damn track has a gap at the end. Not as in "space between tracks" gap, as in "Roxio deleted the last two seconds of each song to artificially create a gap". I was absolutely pissed when I discovered this. Both burners I have now (and anything I will ever purchase in the future) came with Nero, which was the deciding factor in buying them.

(Nero has a free trial, by the way. I think 30 days. Not sure if you can keep reinstalling it after the trial period ends or not, but it's damn good software.)