Re: [Traverso-devel] CDRDAO export

[Jonatan Liljedahl]

ben levitt wrote:
> On 5/9/07, Jonatan Liljedahl <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I see no conflict in combining them! One could have a long
>> live-recording which you want to split up into separate tracks, and then
>> another live-recording to do the same. Then you have 2 songs with
>> multiple trackmarks, and you probably want them on CD like this:
>>
>> 1: song 1 mark 1
>> 2: song 1 mark 2
>> 3: song 1 mark 3
>> 4: song 2 mark 1
>> 5: song 2 mark 2
>> 6: song 2 mark 3
>>
>> It's just a matter of incrementing the track counter for each trackmark,
>> and iterate through the songs.
> 
> I agree, that's how I expect it to work.
> 
> One open question:  Do we leave the standard 2 seconds of pregap
> silence between songs?  I'm thinking it should include "PREGAP
> 0:02:00" before the first track of each song's set of tracks,
> including before the very first track of the CD.  So in the above
> example, we'd get:
> 
> 1: (PREGAP 0:02:00) song 1 mark 1
> 2: song 1 mark 2
> 3: song 1 mark 3
> 4: (PREGAP 0:02:00) song 2 mark 1
> 5: song 2 mark 2
> 6: song 2 mark 3

That's a good question. The standard says only that the first track of a
CD should have a 2 seconds pregap. So I'd say we let the toc file
generator put a 2 sec pregap before the first track in the toc, but not
at the first track of each song!

And I think that in the future, there should be special pregap markers.
It could be visualised like if the track marks had a draggable start and
end point, painted in a transparent color. like a range selection..
And so the start edge would mean PREGAP and the end edge would mean
start of TRACK. This way one can put whatever they whish inside the
pregaps, and make them any length.

Note: pregaps is the first part of a track that isn't played if you skip
directly to that track, but only when you listen continually from the
track before it. The 2 sec pregap of the first track of a CD is actually
never heard, unless you rewind the CD-player after you begin playing the
first track. (Some CD's have made this pregap very long and put hidden
bonus songs there! =)

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