Burning gapless audio CDs from vinyl

[nmw01223]

I backup my (old) vinyl records to CD - they last longer. I do this by recording each side with Audacity, spliting into tracks, saving each as a WAV file, creating a CUE file and burning with ImgBurn.

 

So far, so good.

 

The problem comes with live albums where the tracks are continuous - no gaps.

 

I've read in the forum that audio CDs are split into frames of approximately 1/75 second, and if ImgBurn is writing a track, it will pad with 0s to the end of the last frame, if necessary. So, even with pre-gap set to 0 seconds, there will be a silence of up to 1/75 second between tracks.

 

Obvious answer is to make sure the tracks are integer multiples of the frame length.

 

However, I can find no easy way of ensuring this with Audacity / ImgBurn. Whilst I realise this is not an ImgBurn issue per se, I am wondering if anyone has a simple method of doing this. Alternatively, a good start would be if someone could say how many (44,100Hz) samples there are in an audio CD frame, then I can probably manage it.

[spinningwheel]

Moved to chat since there is no ImgBurn issue here.

[LIGHTNING UK!]

You'd have to save as one long file and not split the tracks up if you don't want any digital silence (potentially being) added.

 

You are just talking about a maximum of 1/75 of a second though (that's what 1 sector is... or 2352 bytes if you prefer it that way). Would you really notice it? Maybe... maybe not.

[gottogo99]

CD Wave will split on sector boundaries perfectly after you save each LP side as one large file:  http://www.milosoftware.com/en/index.php?body=cdwave.php.  Works perfectly for live albums w/no gaps.