Digital Hiccups

[Emo-Fan]

I have a Philips HDD DVD recorder/player that also plays CDs. It upsamples and plays everything perfectly except for one little phenomenon: On any CD where the individual tracks play together without pause, there is always a short period of silence as it moves from one track to the next. No musical information is lost, it just goes momentarily silent as it moves from one track to the next track. It is really of no consequence and it's not a defect (It does it on all CDs that track together and only on those CDs), but a real annoyance if you listen to stuff like Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto. The 2nd and 3rd movements are supposed to play without pause, and you hear this momentary silence. Likewise, the Bill Evans Trio at Village Vanguard. One great live recording, but there's that slight noiseless "hiccup" between tracks as the applause is momentarily cut off, then resumes at the beginning sigue of the next track.

Does anyone else notice this on DVD players? (I might never have noticed it at all if I hadn't been listening with closed back headphones.)

I should mention that on DVD recordings like Celtic Woman this problem doesn't exist--it's only on CD.

[jazzgene]

I have a Philips HDD DVD recorder/player that also plays CDs. It upsamples and plays everything perfectly except for one little phenomenon: On any CD where the individual tracks play together without pause, there is always a short period of silence as it moves from one track to the next. No musical information is lost, it just goes momentarily silent as it moves from one track to the next track. It is really of no consequence and it's not a defect (It does it on all CDs that track together and only on those CDs), but a real annoyance if you listen to stuff like Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto. The 2nd and 3rd movements are supposed to play without pause, and you hear this momentary silence. Likewise, the Bill Evans Trio at Village Vanguard. One great live recording, but there's that slight noiseless "hiccup" between tracks as the applause is momentarily cut off, then resumes at the beginning sigue of the next track.

Does anyone else notice this on DVD players? (I might never have noticed it at all if I hadn't been listening with closed back headphones.)

I should mention that on DVD recordings like Celtic Woman this problem doesn't exist--it's only on CD.

This is because of Redbook standard. "Audio in Pause" has to be enabled and not all hardware deals with this correctly.

[Scorpion8]

This is because of Redbook standard. "Audio in Pause" has to be enabled and not all hardware deals with this correctly.

Is there an easy correction, or does it have to be ripped off to digital software, "corrected", and spun back to a physical medium?

[shadowlord]

a dedicated CD player might be your best bet.
chances are that it will sound better too!

[jazzgene]

Is there an easy correction, or does it have to be ripped off to digital software, "corrected", and spun back to a physical medium?

I believe it has to be ripped and then set up properly in a CD mastering software and then properly burned to Redbook standards. That has been my experience.

[R.Daneel]

There is nothing to correct. The disc has been mastered with no pause between the tracks as is often the case with live recordings. So, ripping the CD on a computer with something along the lines of Exact audio copy would make no sense since the disc has already been made for continuous playback. The problem lies within your hardware and it's digital servo. I doubt your DVD is malfunctioning however, it is just something they didn't pay enough attention to when they wrote the firmware.