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Re: [LUG] Ripping Clasical CDs: WAS Re: Music CD Database

 

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 07:04:46AM +0100, J Wonnacott  wrote:
> > "Ripping to MP3" is actually (normally) a 2 stage process, but many
> > tools hide this.  What ought to happen is ripping CD -> WAV and then
> > encoding WAV -> MP3.  If you were to do this manually (rather than
> > using a GUI 'CD Ripper' application) you would have complete control
> > over the process.  You can stitch the required WAV files together and
> > then encode the larger file(s) to MP3.  Obviously this can be automated
> > somewhat.
> 
> Now that answers a problem that's been driving me mad too!
> 
> Any pointers as to instructions on how to do this please.
> 
> BTW it's not just classical music- Pink Floyd's "The wall" sounds terrible with 
> track gaps!

Various players support “gapless playback”. Wikipedia has a list.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gapless_playback

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