Negative Elapsed Time?

Discussion in 'Audio' started by pitzel, Aug 30, 2006.

  1. pitzel

    pitzel Guest

    Hi. I posted this in the CD-R section with no results, although I'm pretty sure I posted it in the wrong place. So I'm trying it here.

    I've bought a few CDs in the past where certain content is played only if the disc is played straight through, and not if a certain song is skipped to. If I look at my CD player, watching for the elapsed time, it shows a negative elapsed time, until the track starts. (ie. -00:03, -00:02, -00:01, 00:00, 00:01...) But if I skip to a track (say that Track 7 is the one in question) it starts at 00:00 and continues from there. The only example I can think of right now is "Stockholm Syndrome" by blink-182 on their newest release (I think it was the untitled one) -- don't judge my taste in music, I bought that back in high school. Hahahahah.

    My band is looking to put something like this on our CD, which we'll be pressing ourselves, on CD-R. Any clue on how I could do this? Or is this only an option with a commercially pressed CD?

    Thanks.
     
  2. mchalmers

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    Hi.

    There is an option to do this in Nero, you can select the gap between tracks (I normally set it at 0 seconds) and it will have the same effect and count up to the beginning of the song.
     
  3. pitzel

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    Alright. Will Nero allow me to put sound in there, during the gap? Basically what I want to do is put a short snippet of sound that plays between, say, Track 2 and Track 3, and is about four seconds long, that plays when the album is listened to in sequence, but not if Track 3 is specifically skipped to. I know this sounds weird, but I know that it has been done and I'd like to do it too.

    Thanks.
     
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    The only way that I can thik of doing this would be to make them as seperate tracks, or add them onto the end of the song before...
     

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