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Someone else told me the same thing last night. Very interesting. Thank you.

What do you mean by 1/75 seconds precision? Also, I’d agree that more CDs should be authored better.

Try to see if you can hear a click at the beginning of these videos. This is not the result of a flaw with my system as I own the same CD with the same song and the click is present on that track, but not when I listen to the same track from a streaming platform or the official YouTube upload of the song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0mR8Jc8Orc&ab_channel=IgnacioRosas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0URdQj3GYc&ab_channel=GabrielBardac Notice in the official YouTube upload, the click is not present https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddKMuL5O-Eg&ab_channel=Enya-Topic What is important to notice is that YouTube does make use of a fade-in/synch delay feature so I am suspecting that is why the click is not audible on the official upload. Just my thoughts 💁‍♂️ ZvAp8pVE

This is a very interesting point. I don’t know if YouTube also has the synch delay feature enabled for its player. Obviously, Apple does not make use of that because I hear clicks on almost every gapless album. It drives me insane. It doesn’t happen with every single gapless track but it happens with quite a few of them. I know I’m not the only person who gets these resulting clicks because if I look up YouTube videos of the same tracks, you can hear the same clicks in other people’s uploads of their own CD rips. I sincerely hope the clicks aren’t the result of CD ripping being an imperfect process because it’s really the only way to get genuine lossless copies of certain music.

Yes. I’ve noticed with Spotify that when you select a song, the audio fades in. With Apple’s music player, the music just raw-starts. Spotify doesn’t crossfade unless you tell it to, but it still functions in such a way that selecting and pausing tracks gives you a fade-in or fade-out, thus masking any mastering flaws that Apple’s player highlights.

Hi all, I’ve been ripping CDs for years and I’ve always noticed that on some gapless albums, poor mastering (supposedly) is the cause of clicking sounds at the beginning of certain tracks. When you shuffle your music on a computer or device, you hear clicks on gapless album songs, because you are separating audio from its original gapless flow. If you play the songs in the order they are on a CD, you don’t hear any clicks or pops because the songs are flowing properly into each other. With respect to CD ripping, do you know any of way the clicking can be prevented?

As the stranger, that’s what I was thinking. :)

This is important to note. Thank you.

Thank you. I will look for a decent one online.

Okay, thanks. I will probably try this down the road. It seems to be my only option.

On second thought, this doesn’t make sense because I’ve already verified that my offset is +6 in the offset database. Sorry for being confusing. I am just trying to think of different things I could do.

That seems to be what most people are suggesting to me. I am going to try to confirm my offset and down the road I will possibly get a new drive. I’m assuming that connecting a USB disc drive to my PC is just a matter of me overriding my existing drive without physically removing it?

You know, it’s been so long since I did that. I’m gonna try to do it again tomorrow. Supposedly, you need 3 CDs to confirm the offset. I don’t remember using 3 different discs. I set everything up back in 2013. I’m curious, though, how my rips would come out as accurate if my offset is incorrectly calibrated?

It’s the same drive that came with the computer when it was built back in 2011. It has always done this and it’s only been since recently that I’ve really noticed it and decided to research it.

I had it automatically detected in dbpoweramp and EAC and confirmed it was correct in the drive database (50 other people have the same offset for my drive). I honestly think my drive is weird.