How can i get rid of gaps in between songs on a mixed cd.

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  1. tonycit

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    Question:I have downloaded a mixed CD,the problem is there are 1sec. gaps between the songs.Can somebody please tell me how to get rid of them when i burn on nero.
    thanx.
     
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    Are you after "no pause" between tracks, or no silence at all between songs? There is a difference as each music file has a short bit of silence after each song embedded in the file. In which case you will need a sound editor to crop that bit. Quite a lot more labor intensive.
     
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    If your source is MP3 or some other compressed format you pretty much can't. These formats generally have to end on a full frame and get padded with silence to accomplish that.
     
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    You can easily crop right down to the very note or vocal syllable with Audacity and save it as such or as a new mp3 file by changing the file name. Actually you could crop all your songs on the playlist and paste them together as one big non-stop music mp3 file. I've done it many times and it works like a charm. But as I said, it is quite time consuming and you will need at least a "little" experience with Audacity.
     
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    Yes, but when you save as MP3 from Audacity, it might have to pad the last frame. You could trim the silence then save as WAV I suppose.
     
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    It doesn't add any silence at the end. Mp3 frame boundaries are not arbitrary. There may be a pad bit or a "sync word" at the frame boundary, but inaudible to the human ear. The .mp3 will sound like it stops abruptly at the end crop point.
     
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