Sector Boundry Errors -Sound Forge - PC - MAGIX Community Forums Archive

Subject:Sector Boundry Errors Posted by: ccliffy Date:5/2/2005 8:27:49 AM Hi, I did a quick search and this has not been discussed really. I am not talking about gaps when burning from pause in Nero or from MP3 sourced audio but microgaps you hear ona burned CD from a 'SBE' Background: SBEs are kind of a mathematical thing ... if the file doesn't exactly fill a CD sector (1/75th second or 588 samples of music), most burning programs will fill the rest of the CD sector with silence, and start burning the next track at the beginning of a new sector - so you hear (on some of them) a microgap or blip between those 2 tracks. So files meant to be burned to CD need to be an exact number of sectors in length to work well. So SBEs either come from splitting the files in the wrong place, or from trimming them after they've been split with an editor that isn't set to cut only on a sector (also called frame). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- I use Sound Forge Audio Studio and wondered if, by default, if I trim something or select a portion of an audio file, will program automatically ensure it is at the end of a sector?
Subject:RE: Sector Boundry Errors Reply by: kbruff Date:5/2/2005 9:07:11 AM Perhaps this is why, I am able to detect and observe small gaps when I import a file with regions into CDA, even if I set all gaps to zero, there is still a very minute gap. I am not sure though, but I could be the reason.
Subject:RE: Sector Boundry Errors Reply by: ccliffy Date:5/4/2005 11:57:21 AM Anybody?

Hi,
I did a quick search and this has not been discussed really. I am not talking about gaps when burning from pause in Nero or from MP3 sourced audio but microgaps you hear ona burned CD from a 'SBE'

Background: SBEs are kind of a mathematical thing ... if the file doesn't exactly fill a CD sector (1/75th second or 588 samples of music), most burning programs will fill the rest of the CD sector with silence, and start burning the next track at the beginning of a new sector - so you hear (on some of them) a microgap or blip between those 2 tracks. So files meant to be burned to CD need to be an exact number of sectors in length to work well.

So SBEs either come from splitting the files in the wrong place, or from trimming them after they've been split with an editor that isn't set to cut only on a sector (also called frame).
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I use Sound Forge Audio Studio and wondered if, by default, if I trim something or select a portion of an audio file, will program automatically ensure it is at the end of a sector?