From: Eugenio Perea <eugenio_at_perea.com>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 15:11:39 -0500

In fact, EAC has an option to detect and leave out the gaps when
ripping/encoding. This is what I've done in the past, in the hope I
would get continous playback. Apparently, I was wrong :)

By the way: Andreas, thanks for the links!

Cheers,

Eugenio

Neon John wrote:
> While in this thread, I should note that there is a free utility, MP3trim I
> think (not where I can check right now) that will automatically trim off the
> silent frames at the beginning and end of an MP3 file. This utility might be
> easier to use than to figure out how to force LAME to do what you want.
>
> John
>
> On Thu, 29 May 2003 09:11:31 +0200, "Andreas Stemmer" <Andreas.Stemmer_at_web.de>
> wrote:
>
>
>>Ok, here are some links:
>>
>>documentation on lame options:
>>http://lame.sourceforge.net/
>>but there's no info about the nogap-option. I remember from somewhere
>>that the nogap option only works, if you pass all the single wav-files
>>together to lame, not each wav-file seperately as EAC does.
>>
>>Good tutorials on EAC and LAME setup:
>>http://mp3.radified.com/
>>http://www.ping.be/satcp/tutorials.htm
>>
>>A very good description of LAME settings and what is necessary, extra
>>chapter about live recordings:
>>http://www.r3mix.net/
>>(It was offline when I wrote this, I don't know if it comes back)
>>
>>The tools I mentioned:
>>split the large mp3 according to the cue sheets:
>>http://musicutter.host.sk/
>>(Cue sheets are simple text files with information about the track names
>>and when the tracks start)
>>
>>I think MP3DirectCut also does this, but I never tried
>>http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch/
>>fix the vbr-header if seek information got lost:
>>http://www.willwap.co.uk/Programs/vbrfix.html
>>
>>There is a tool called MP3TagStudio which is very powerful in correcting
>>MP3s. It also claims to be able to cut off the silence at the beginning
>>and at the end of MP3s. Perhaps this is enough for you to modify your
>>existing files. I didn't try, if it works, new encoding was faster for
>>me.
>>http://www.magnusbrading.com/mp3ts/
>>
>>For detailed information on vbr headers, a search on Google or Linus :-)
>>should give you lot's of information.
>>
>>
>>>Please, somebody tell me there's another way! :)
>>>
>>>I also use EAC. I've already encoded over 3,000 songs
>>>directly to mp3,
>>>but it is possible to extract directly to wav. Perhaps -r3mix
>>>and -nogap
>>>can be used together, like Linux options?
>>>
>>>Anyway, it is obvious I need to read up on the following:
>>>-LAME options
>>>-Cue Sheets and their uses
>>>-VBR headers
>
>
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>
Received on 2003-05-29