I've authored some CD's from original material.
When the tracks are played in the editor, or WMP, there's no problem.
However, the authored CD's have a loud click at the beginning of each track,
even though the tracks start with near silence.
I would have thought that there would be a function to enforce a
zero-crossing transition at the start of the track, but this does not appear
to be the case with the program I use, Sound Forge 4.5.

Do other audio programs offer forced zero crossing at the start of a file,
as an effect, or is this problem best solved with a fade?

"Robert Morein" wrote in message
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I've authored some CD's from original material.
When the tracks are played in the editor, or WMP, there's no problem.
However, the authored CD's have a loud click at the beginning of each
track,
even though the tracks start with near silence.
I would have thought that there would be a function to enforce a
zero-crossing transition at the start of the track, but this does not
appear
to be the case with the program I use, Sound Forge 4.5.

If your using SF 4.5 to burn the CD, then that's your problem. It can only
do Track At Once, which can cause clicks. Try burning an audio CD with NERO
or similar burning program that can do Disk At Once. Sony/SF have a program
called CD Architect that will do CD mastering and DAO burning.

TonyP.

TonyP wrote:

"Robert Morein" wrote in message
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I've authored some CD's from original material.
When the tracks are played in the editor, or WMP, there's no problem.
However, the authored CD's have a loud click at the beginning of each
track,
even though the tracks start with near silence.
I would have thought that there would be a function to enforce a
zero-crossing transition at the start of the track, but this does not
appear
to be the case with the program I use, Sound Forge 4.5.

If your using SF 4.5 to burn the CD, then that's your problem. It can only
do Track At Once, which can cause clicks. Try burning an audio CD with NERO
or similar burning program that can do Disk At Once. Sony/SF have a program
called CD Architect that will do CD mastering and DAO burning.

TonyP.

Feurio would also be a good choice for burning audio CD's on a budget.
You should also avoid storing any extra information in the .wav file
header (like track title and artist information or cue lists) as some
software doesn't handle all the optional header fields properly.

Cheers.

James.

James Perrett wrote:

Feurio would also be a good choice for burning audio CD's

Yes.

on a budget.

It is plain good and it is very cheap considering what it offers. It
does have a learning curve ... because it offers so much.

James.


Kind regards

Peter Larsen

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"Robert Morein" wrote

I've authored some CD's from original material.
When the tracks are played in the editor, or WMP, there's no problem.
However, the authored CD's have a loud click at the beginning of each
track,
even though the tracks start with near silence.
I would have thought that there would be a function to enforce a
zero-crossing transition at the start of the track, but this does not
appear
to be the case with the program I use, Sound Forge 4.5.

In SF 6 & 7: Options/preferences/editing tab. Make
zero-crossing settings. SF 4.5 is a W95 platform, so
you many not have these same options.


Do other audio programs offer forced zero crossing at the start of a file,
as an effect, or is this problem best solved with a fade?

CD Architect.