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graylocks2
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NEED EMERGENCY HELP! Itunes adding time?

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i have to submit a cd today to my state arts council. i have some live tracks that i edited in Amadeus Pro to cut out stage patter. the edited tracks play exactly as i edited them in iTunes 8 from the hard drive however, when burned to a cd the music ends where i intend but now there is a long gap of silence until the original time of the track is reached.

for instance, on one edited track the music ends at 5:15 when played from my hard drive in iTunes and iTunes moves on to the next song. but the same track when burned - the music ends at 5:15 and then there is 1:43 seconds of SILENCE until the next song plays. the music plus the silence equals the length of time for the original unedited track! (the gap between songs in iTunes is set to 0, btw.)

this stuff has to be postmarked Monday and I am required to submit a live performance CD. does any one have any idea what could be going on?


this is what the end of the track looks like:

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Gerard Bik
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NEED EMERGENCY HELP! Itunes adding time?

Post by Gerard Bik »

cd burning software automatically inserts a 2 sec pause between tracks.
Set this pause to zero in the burn dialog and you should hear no silence.

iTunes is more tricky than other burn software. You have to switch off the
feature that makes tracks blend into each other (in preferences).

good luck
i have to submit a cd today to my state arts council. i have some live
tracks that i edited in Amadeus Pro to cut out stage patter. the edited
tracks play exactly as i edited them in iTunes 8 from the hard drive
however, when burned to a cd the music ends where i intend but now there
is a long gap of silence until the original time of the track is reached.

for instance, on one edited track the music ends at 5:15 when played from
my hard drive in iTunes and iTunes moves on to the next song. but the same
track when burned - the music ends at 5:15 and then there is 1:43 seconds
of SILENCE until the next song plays. the music plus the silence equals
the length of time for the original unedited track! (the gap between songs
in iTunes is set to 0, btw.)

this stuff has to be postmarked Monday and I am required to submit a live
performance CD. does any one have any idea what could be going on?


this is what the end of the track looks like:

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Gerard Bik
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Post by Gerard Bik »

I see now that you already set the gap to zero. (heh, emergency answer).

Another thing that can be of influence: The tracks in iTunes can have tags to indicate they are part of a collection.
Info>options

I do my burning in Toast, so my iTunes knowledge has gaps.

regards

Gerard Bik
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Post by Gerard Bik »

The tag you probably need is the last one: "Aaneensluitend album" in Dutch. In English it might be "Continuous album".

Hope you make it today.

rfwilmut
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Post by rfwilmut »

I would suggest deleting the files from iTunes: then saving-as each file to a new name (and in AIFF format). Drag the new versions into iTunes and see if it works.

Alternatively you could burn them in Amadaeus Pro.

graylocks2
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Post by graylocks2 »

GerardBik wrote:The tag you probably need is the last one: "Aaneensluitend album" in Dutch. In English it might be "Continuous album".

Hope you make it today.
TAGS! Bingo! Thank you. under Options in the Info/Tags window there are checkboxs for the start and stop times. the stop time was showing the length of the original track. i changed the stop time to the length of the edited track and burned the disc again. PERFECT! the tracks play correctly and show the length of the edited track.

interestingly enough, the old track length still shows in the main iTunes window for the edited tracks. don't know if this is an iTunes quirk or Amadeus. who cares - my grant application is saved!

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