Re: noise at the end of a track

When I was experimenting in Audacity with trimming off the last little bit,
the loudness of the pop varied a lot, depending on where I set the
endpoint.
So maybe I could look for a "zero-crossing point" manually that way - try
different endpoints and find one where the pop is inaudible.
What's the frequency at which the voltage is varying - the resolution for
searching for a zero-crossing point?
Laura

On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 6:41 AM Laura <[email protected]> wrote:

> Zack said deleting the metadata didn't help.
> I'm using the most recent version of EAC.
> The track with the pop at the end is "Shine on on you crazy diamond" parts
> I-V on "Wish You were Here".  It's the first track on the CD.
> Zack said something I didn't understand, about maybe it wasn't actually
> the end of the track.
> But, " Shine on on you crazy diamond" parts VI-IX are the 5th track on the
> CD.
> Maybe "Shine on on you crazy diamond" is one recording and it got split
> somehow into tracks 1 and 5, and that somehow causes a pop sound at the end
> of track 1?
> How could it be fixed, anyway?
> Laura
>
> On Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 3:58 PM Zack Berkovitz [email protected]
> [EAC] <[email protected]> wrote:
>
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>> If you post the wav to Onedrive, dropbox, or GDrive, I would test
>> encoding it for you and see if I can reproduce the pop.
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Zack Berkovitz <[email protected]>
>> *Sent:* Sunday, June 7, 2020 12:52 PM
>> *To:* [email protected]
>> *Subject:* RE: [EAC] noise at the end of a track
>>
>>
>>
>> Which version of EAC/flac did you use to encode? Which CD?
>>
>>
>>
>> When encoding with FLAC, generally you want to use the option to delete
>> foreign metadata:
>>
>> --no-keep-foreign-metadata
>>
>>
>>
>> This metadata isn’t the tag data, it’s WAV data that is used in some
>> applications, but is generally useless in FLAC and mp3 files, per the
>> documentation.  I use EAC to rip, but don’t use its built-in compressor
>> support, so I’m not sure what the default options are if you are using it
>> that way. It’s also easy to rewrite the tags using mp3tag (it works for
>> FLAC). I like to name my files so all of the tags are in the filename as
>> well, e.g.
>>
>>
>>
>> Run the Jewels - RTJ4 - 07 - Ju$t (Ft. Pharrell Williams and Zach De La
>> Rocha).flac
>>
>>
>>
>> Once you do that, you can just tell mp3tag to (re)write the tags using
>> the filenames, or you can easily manually input them. You thread is timely,
>> I just compiled FLAC 1.3.3 last night (to encode the new RTJ album), and
>> was updating my settings for FLAC and lame.
>>
>>
>>
>> I would also try foobar2000 as I believe it’s the best player on Windows.
>> You can try encoding the file with foobar, as it has flac support built-in.
>> However, flac and mp3 decoders have been fairly (completely?) static for a
>> long time, so WM, vlc, etc should be fine as players.
>>
>>
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Zack
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* [email protected] <[email protected]>
>> *Sent:* Sunday, June 7, 2020 11:21 AM
>> *To:* [email protected]
>> *Subject:* Re: [EAC] noise at the end of a track
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> If it's metadata being misread as audio, you could try a tag editor like
>> Mp3tag (it's free) to remove all of the tags and see if that fixes the
>> noise.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> Marc
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 10:18 AM Laura [email protected] [EAC] <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
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>> I ripped a music CD with EAC to a FLAC file, and right at the end of
>> one track there's a kind of staticky pop.
>> The same thing happened when I imported it with iTunes in .wav format.
>> But it doesn't happen when I play the CD directly.
>> The staticky pop doesn't seem to be in the audio, because I used
>> Audacity to trim off the last couple seconds of the track, and it's
>> still there.
>> Apparently, from googling, the pop comes from a tag (?) with metadata,
>> that is being misread as part of the audio.
>> I've been using Windows Media Player to play sound files - generally,
>> it does very well.
>> Can EAC be set to rip the CD without including this tag or whatever it is?
>> Or could I maybe eliminate it in Audacity?
>> Laura
>>
>>
>>
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