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The thing is it kind of is one long track on the actual layout. This kind of messed with people at first one they were ripping these discs. The tracks are bas
by sumtechguy 3y ago
The thing is it kind of is one long track on the actual layout. This kind of messed with people at first one they were ripping these discs. The tracks are basically designated by a gap. That gap can be a few different lengths of basically silence. This is sort of left over from where CD's came from the vinyl era where the disc was one long groove and the start of the songs were just basically a spot where nothing played that you could see it was secondary. So CD players though had a different issue. They could not touch the disc. So they would designate a gap zone an the player could seek to a particular timeframe which should put you in that gap. Also remember what would be 12:00 for one player could be 12:00:01 on another. So the gap had have some wiggle room.
I am surprised that the scumm group did not just grab an existing disc container format like CHD (which I think is BSD3). They have solved most of these issues already.
- jandrese 3y agoThe gap is optional too. You can burn CDs with no gap between audio tracks. I've done this for disks that are just one continuous track. I break it up into 90 small tracks with 0 gap between them. This way if you need to pull the disc out and continue playback on a different device you can seek to the track instead of having to hold down the fast forward button for ages.