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Yes, the burst of sound _is_ part of the final track, seems like something that was going on maybe 10-15 seconds earlier, though the same "burst" effect is going on even on cd's where the final track is only 5 seconds long (though in this case, it may be pulling still from 10-15 seconds earlier, just from the second-to-last track. I've been meaning to test this by burning something with 20 seconds of silence as the final track (in which case the added "burst" should itself be silence), but I havne't done that yet. Still, I'm reasonably certain that the burst is sound from 10-15 seconds before the official end of the disc.
So anyway, there's this burst in the lead-out. I can set EAC to read-ahead (positive offset) 20 frames (the maximum you can set it for) and it just shows silence... perhaps it doesn't really read the data on the audio cd, but just sticks with the cd's official ending and adds 20 frames of silence to simulate having read 20 frames into the lead-out. If I use CDex and set it to read 20 frames ahead, it does get the burst of sound after the official end of the disc.
It may be that this burst actually isn't on the disc, but CDex (and the discman when it isn't set to anti-skip and thus isn't as carefully calibrated) get messed up in the lead-out and bounce back 10-15 seconds in reading the disc, hence the apparent burst of sound. But this only happens on burned CD-R, not on original discs, so if this is true then there's a problem with my burner or burning program closing the disc or writing the lead-out correctly. Or it may be that the burst is added in the lead-out.
Either way, there's some sort of problem, and I'd appreciate any input from people who have a better understanding of CD-R media, and of the burning process, than I do. Thanks.
BTW, I've tried Feurio, but can't get it to work - none of its drivers recognize my burner.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 19. September 2002 @ 13:02
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