Recording A Cd

[Brundlefly]

I've looked around your forum (and yes, used the search function) but noone else seems to be having this problem....

Anyway, using SS 3.0 on windows XP I find that, if I record (sorry, "Import") a CD then often the tracks run into one another. What I mean to say is, for example, track 9 may have the last second of track 8 at the beginning. Whereas if I only record track 9, then there is no problem, it works as it should.

I have smoothing enabled, btw.

Any ideas?

Cheers

[dex Otaku]

Usually errors like this are caused by the drive being used have a rather large read-offset, however, if you're able to rip just one track from the middle of the CD and have it work correctly, that would suggest otherwise. [i.e. the read offset should still affect the single track]

Do you have access to another drive that you could try ripping the same CD with?

[Brundlefly]

I have two CD drives, if that's what you mean but the problem is the same with both of them.

What is a read offset?

EDIT:

Oh, I forgot to say, it happens on specific tracks. For instance, the example I gave was real, on one of my CDs it is always track nine that contains a brief sample of track 8's final moments on it but as I said if i record track 9 alone it will be fine. Some CD's are fine all the way through but most have one or two tracks like this.

Edited March 22, 2005 by Brundlefly

[dex Otaku]

See here:

http://users.pandora.be/satcp/tutorials.htm

There's a link there for "the truth about offsets."

The important part is right in the very first paragraph,

Almost every drive cannot position its reading head exact at the wanted sector. For data CDs that isn't much of a problem since every sector has location information so the drive can easily find the correct sector. Contrary to data CDs, audio CDs contain no sector location information. In other words it's very difficult too locate a certain sector on an audio disc. That means that drives will have an offset when reading audio CDs. For most modern drives this offset is constant so you can correct it once you know it.

To my knowledge, neither SonicStage nor Simple Burner actually do offset-correction, which means the trackmarks basically move around by however much the offset is.

Still, it doesn't sound like this is your problem, as the offset usually applies more to reading single tracks than to ripping entire discs. Also, if both of your drives are doing it, it suggests that the problem lies with the software, not the hardware.

I'm not sure what to suggest as a solution, though.

[Brundlefly]

Ok, thanks anyway.

[atrain]

maybe try ripping to wav or high bitrate mp3 with a program like cdex

http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/

then import these files to SS

[Brundlefly]

Yeah I could but wouldn't that then put gaps between the tracks so that if I wanted to listen to the whole album I'd get breaks where tracks are meant to run smoothly from one into the other?

Sorry if that isn't too clear but I'm not sure how to express what I mean.

Anyway, if it would then I might as well record each track seperately because it would take less time.

Thanks though