A quick little survey for those who (still?) burn CDs.

[PleaseKillMeNow]

How do you feel about pre-gap? Silly question, I know, but for some those two seconds could make or break a decent mix. Personally, I don't like it. I'm too impatient. Even if it's a slow song going into a fast song or vice-versa, I can't have any breaks, damnit.


(this thread will either fade into obscurity or move to the War Room... *sigh*)

 

[Zero Satori]

I'm with you, Wopat, mainly because I primarily listen to dance or ambient albums. It gets especially bad when the mix itself had a DJ who basically put the tracks back-to-back (which is fine) but, with a gap in the middle, it lands-up either cutting one song short at the end or leaving the intro for one song on a completely different track (which sucks for MP3 listening). The only solution I've found, really, is to ensure that, if you're ripping a mix to a CD, see if the programme has options built-in to leave it without a gap. (I think iTunes uses the term "gapless playback" or something.)

 

[ViewtifulZFO]

Depends on the music in question.

If the songs are meant to be separate, I won't mind a 2 second pause. If they aren't, they should flow together and I take it out.

Either way, it's not a hassle unless the music is continuous.

 

[Mike Shagohod]

I personally prefer there to be a 3 second gap after the song playing fades out from the audible decibel the human ear hears... then the next song begins. I hate it when there isn't "at least" 2 seconds between songs, I don't like hearing what sounds like one endless song, especially when it's crossing genres. But then I like the pixel artifacts in Video CD (VCD) movies, and was sad when that format was no longer supported even in China.

 

[tsukaesugi]

Normally I like it, especially when I'm listening to music on a Walkman / iPod.

It gives me a second or two to "clear my head" and get ready for the next song.

Sometimes though, I'll be listening to something ambient, where two songs are supposed to flow together, and the break just kills the effect.

 

[norton9478]

Gap? No Gap?

Crossfade is where it's at!

 

[PleaseKillMeNow]

I guess for me, I spend so much time working on the flow as an mp3 playlist that I get used to no gap at all. Also, I've made tapes (yes, tapes) recently and with those you hit stop as soon as a song ends and record as another begins so it's song/song/song/song with the only sort of gap being if the song has a fadeout or not. I don't know. I guess I'm OCD.

It's nearly a moot point now as some friends of mine, as soon as I make them a CD, will just rip it into iTunes and put it on their iPod.

 

[lithy]

I haven't burned a CD or listened to much music in a while, my opinion though would probably vary depending on what the point of the CD was.

In general I don't like mixed CDs much anyway, an album is meant to be listened to as an album.

If it is something like a workout mix no gap.

If it is just a bunch of songs I like, I never notice the gap anyway when laying around listening.

 

[evil wasabi]

I'm expecting someone to come in with a better solution than burning the songs all as one track...