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#264721
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Preserving Live Albums
Time
Yes, I know what you're talking about.

You'll have to do one of two things.

One is to rip the disc as WAV files and burn using a CD burning program (such as Nero) in "Disc-At-Once" mode. This will leave no pauses in between tracks. With Nero, make sure you either click the box that says "No pauses between tracks" (if you're using Express) or (if you're using Nero Burning ROM) to select "Properties" on all tracks and set the pause from 2 seconds to 0 seconds.

The other thing you could do is rip an ISO image file of the CD and burn from that, which would create an exact duplicate of the orignal disc.
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#264708
Topic
Preserving Live Albums
Time
Are you talking about ripping live albums from CD, or from some other source? If you rip to MP3 and play, there will always be a slight pause because of the nature of MP3s. You've gotta rip to WAV or another uncompressed format for there to be no pauses. Not sure if FLAC (compressed, but lossless) will give you pauses. It might during computer playback, but if you burn to CD from FLAC, it won't.

Also, if you're looking to get rid of the pauses in between tracks that are hard-coded into the CD itself (like that two-second countdown before a track), some ripping programs will skip ripping that space if you set it properly. Exact Audio Copy is one of those programs.
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#263112
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ZigFried's Archival Saga (* unfinished project *)
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Well, what Zig's doing isn't technically wrong or illegal or anything, it's not even stupid. Watching backup copies of things that you watch quite frequently is a good idea. The originals will always be there if you put too much wear on the dupes. This applied more for VHS copies than for DVDs, but the same principal applies.

Polluting the message board telling us about it is what's stupid.
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#262995
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ZigFried's Archival Saga (* unfinished project *)
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Originally posted by: ZigFried
All right, I'll give that a try first. But if that doesn't work, conversion time...

No. If you have a DVD burner and the ability to use Google, you have no fucking excuse to convert a DVD to AVI and then back to DVD. Sorry to be so blunt, but come on. If you have a DVD burner, there is no concievable reason to have to convert the DVDs to other file formats.
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#262807
Topic
Your favorite version of the Thief
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Originally posted by: ZigFried
Changed my mind. The Recobbled Cut is my favorite now because:

1. It's public domain
2. I can make as many copies of it so I don't lose it.

Neither of those reasons make any sense. It's not public domain. The copyright is still owned by Disney or the Weinsteins or whoever. It's nowhere close to public domain. And you can make just as many copies of that as you can of any other DVD.