Wavepad alters sound when Burning to CD

[Guest Antony Hodgson]

I copied a classical CD which was from a live concert. I tried to

lengthen the pause between movements of a

Symphony. I added hall background noise by copying and it came out very

well yet when I copied to CD, the programme put in a dreadful black space of

two seconds into the natural hall ambience that I had created shortly before the

restart of the music at a new track. Worse still, it added another black

space in the middle of a hall-ambience pause before another movement (and I

had not altered that original pause in any way). Neither of these

"drop-outs" could be heard when playing back the wave-form so it was not

until I had copied the CD that I found it. This is a serious fault because,

classical engineers are always careful never to let

the sound "go to black" because, in a well-used phrase, the silence is

deafening. Is there any way to disable this arbitrary two-seconds-silence

which is added to the CD but not to the wave-form?

[Antony Hodgson]

Thanks to the 71 people who looked at this query (but no one replied). I think I've solved it by sheer chance so if you are interested ............. instead of copying direct from each ripped track, save them all one by one and then go into the standard Windows media player that is on most Microsoft XL packages. Then select the option to compile a CD for home or car use. Then search for valid music files by clicking on this option (at top of left-hand box of music tracks) and then pull the tracks one by one to the right hand box in consecutive order). You can then burn them as a compilation CD and there will be no 'black' gaps between tracks. Amazing what prodding a few experimental buttons will do - it seems to be a good replacement for genuine computer skills! Antony Hodgson