markshan
1K Club - QQ Shooting Star
See if this helps...
Dude "A" records the Phish show from the audience. He then goes home and cuts that file into individual tracks, not knowing that there even is such a thing as a sector line that the audio is supposed to be cut at, and burns a CD. He checks the CD by playing it in his computer and it sounds great. He then gives the CD to his friend, dude "B".
Dude "B" plays the CD back in his car and he is really digging it, except that there is this tiny but really annoying burst of static at the end of each song. He goes on line and finds out that it is caused by an SBE, and also finds that there is software to correct it. So his rips the disc and reburns it, not knowing that his "correction" has fixed one problem but created another. So he gets back in his car and digs the show again, except that now instead of bursts of static between the songs, now he has silent gaps between the songs. He shrugs his shoulders and says "oh, well" because the silence, which not great, is better than the loud burst.
Now the only way to remove the gaps he has introduced is to edit them out of the file completely. If he had corrected the disc from dude "A" by moving the sector lines instead of correcting it by padding with extra zeros, he would not have had this problem.
Of course, as CDs are going the way of the dinosaur, this is becoming irrelevant, save for old shows that have been improperly traded.
Dude "A" records the Phish show from the audience. He then goes home and cuts that file into individual tracks, not knowing that there even is such a thing as a sector line that the audio is supposed to be cut at, and burns a CD. He checks the CD by playing it in his computer and it sounds great. He then gives the CD to his friend, dude "B".
Dude "B" plays the CD back in his car and he is really digging it, except that there is this tiny but really annoying burst of static at the end of each song. He goes on line and finds out that it is caused by an SBE, and also finds that there is software to correct it. So his rips the disc and reburns it, not knowing that his "correction" has fixed one problem but created another. So he gets back in his car and digs the show again, except that now instead of bursts of static between the songs, now he has silent gaps between the songs. He shrugs his shoulders and says "oh, well" because the silence, which not great, is better than the loud burst.
Now the only way to remove the gaps he has introduced is to edit them out of the file completely. If he had corrected the disc from dude "A" by moving the sector lines instead of correcting it by padding with extra zeros, he would not have had this problem.
Of course, as CDs are going the way of the dinosaur, this is becoming irrelevant, save for old shows that have been improperly traded.