Re: noise at the end of a track

It's real in the sense that you can see that the end of the track does
not have exactly zero on both tracks.  So it's an artifact in the
sense that an absolutely sudden stop to the sound affects the
electrical response.  And too short of a fadeout also apparently
causes one's ear to hear a click or pop.
Windows Media Player has generally been quite good at transitions.  It
plays "The Wall" without any pops, and that doesn't have silence
between tracks.  I've ripped about 30 CDs now, and this is the first
one that had a pop at the end of the track.
So I guess, they were careful about ending the tracks at zero in the
other music.
In theory I could probably fix it in Audacity, keeping "Shine on you
crazy diamond" as a separate track - by doing a cross-fade to mono, so
both stereo tracks are the same at the end, and then using a tool in
Audacity to end it exactly at a zero crossing.
Laura

On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 11:36 AM Jerry Baker jbaker6953-/[email protected] [EAC]
<[email protected]> wrote:
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> Is the pop real, meaning it can be seen in the waveform in an audio
> editor? In that case it's probably an error in the original, like the
> famous pop at the beginning of Comfortably Numb on some pressings.
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> If it's not visible in an audio editor it's probably a player that
> doesn't do gapless playback well.
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> On 6/9/2020 8:01 AM, Laura [email protected] [EAC] wrote:
> > Success!
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> > I used Audacity to append the files for "Shine on you crazy diamond"
> > parts I-V and "Welcome to the Machine", and it plays fine.  No pop.
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> > Audacity has various tools to eliminate a click at the end of a track.
> > It gets difficult with stereo music, because the zero crossings for the
> > two tracks aren't at the same place.  I tried fading out "Shine on you
> > crazy diamond" in the last tenth of a second or so, but there was still
> > a pop, but less.
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> > Laura
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