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Old 2026-04-08, 04:34 PM
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Icon6 Re: Aligning CD sector boundaries best practices

In Trader's Little Helper, there's options to fix SBE's, with something like "add to next track" being the best option for us and our gapless needs... Going from memory and I'm kinda foggy today so forgive me.

When I'm doing tracking of a file, I like to do my cuts on the whole full second marks with no fractions. That way, I'm on the "one" of that 75 frames per second sector CD stuff and there's no issues... Except for that one time I messed up and cut something wrong in the middle. TLH caught it, and did the fix...

As far as how much it moves to bump those samples from beginning to end and over to the beginning of the next track down the line, possibly screwing up the beginnings of the tracks in your scenario, the amount is very small - a fraction of 1/75th of a second! That's a pretty small fraction. I guess, if there were some kind of EXTREMELY defined break, there might be a tiny blip added to the beginning of it, but then, that isn't quite a gapless playback in the first place... End to end it will still playback to sound the same.
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