Re: [Gwc-general] [ gwc-Bugs-2813350 ] cdrdao file generation bug]

[James T. <ja...@ta...>]

On Monday 02 November 2009 15:26:52 jeff welty wrote:
jw> Sorry I've not been checking the inbox as often.
jw> 
jw> I think you are working on a problem, which I think really is a user
jw>  interface issue.
jw> 
jw> The problem with song markers, is that they assume songs end, and start
jw>  on a single sample boundary.
jw> 
jw> Problem with that, if you think about a recording from a multi-track
jw>  source like vinyl LP, is that it allows for no lead-in, no separation
jw>  between tracks, and no tail-out of silence on the recording.
jw> 
jw> I think the real solution is to make song markers identify not an exact
jw>  sample, but rather the start of a song, and the length of the song.  In
jw>  the GUI, songs could be displayed with alternating highlights or
jw>  anything that indicates the start of a song and its length.
jw> 
jw> What do you think?
jw> 

Hi Jeff, all
	I think that while the idea you suggest has its merits, but for most purposes 
the silence between songs on an LP is about the right length and usually I 
have far too much lead in and tail out on the start and end of the disk that I 
have to cut off. Therefore I think that for maybe 80-90% of cases the present 
system does what is needed. 

Actually for the majority of what I do, I build my own TOC files by hand as 
when there are 1 or 2 numbers per side (and occasionally a single number is 
spread over 2 sides) and a dozen or so sides in the entire work it's easier to 
do it that way.

James

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