[linux-audio-user] cd burning w/out gaps

[Malcolm Baldridge]

> so, if we don't want silence we'll have to put 00:00:00, right?
> but you say that a minimum of 1 sec is required??

I hate to add further confusion to the bonfires, but the pregap length and
silence have nothing to do with each other, per se.  You can have 2 second
pre-gaps with zero inter-track silence.  Casualty: your CD player's time
elapsed value will look strange around track transitions compared to a
"normal" CD mastered with P subcode bits set appropriately.  Most people
seem accustomed to see the timecode "countdown" from -00:02 during two
second "pause" gaps between tracks.

Pre-gap is only silence if the P subcode flag says it is.

I will give two examples of controlling silence values in a DAO table of
contents listing:

(This is in cdrdao syntax, which resembles "professional" formats)

// Track 3
TRACK AUDIO
NO COPY
NO PRE_EMPHASIS
TWO_CHANNEL_AUDIO
FILE "track3.wav"
// Track 4
TRACK AUDIO
NO COPY
NO PRE_EMPHASIS
TWO_CHANNEL_AUDIO
FILE "track3.wav"

[ no silence ] 

If you want silence:

TRACK AUDIO
NO COPY
NO PRE_EMPHASIS
TWO_CHANNEL_AUDIO
FILE "data.wav"
// Track 4
TRACK AUDIO
NO COPY
NO PRE_EMPHASIS
TWO_CHANNEL_AUDIO
SILENCE 00:02:00
FILE "data.wav"

If you want 2 seconds of silence with a 2 second "countdown" timer between
the tracks, with index points defined every minute within the track:

TRACK AUDIO
NO COPY
NO PRE_EMPHASIS
TWO_CHANNEL_AUDIO
FILE "track3.wav"
// Track 4
TRACK AUDIO
NO COPY
NO PRE_EMPHASIS
TWO_CHANNEL_AUDIO
SILENCE 00:02:00
START
FILE "track4.wav" 
INDEX 01:00:00
INDEX 02:00:00
INDEX 03:00:00
INDEX 04:00:00

(Yes, I know it's tempting to make a bunch of these to play some havoc with
cd-player displays.)

Incidentally, you can specify offset/length parametres to FILE to write out
only a portion of one monolithic track file, as was asked before.

Like so:

FILE "track.wav" 00:04:00 10:00:00
(dump track.wav from the 300th through the 44,999th frames, inclusive)

The pre-gap is demarcated by "INDEX 0" of the track.

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