Hi, You might get a pop if you told the ripping program to produce a wav, then told lame it was a raw headerless file. The pop could be the wav header information. This also can happen if using cdrecord. _J In the new year, Doug Wood wrote: > I just did an experiment with Windows 98. Using Windows Media Player, if I > stopped playing something in the middle of a sound, it would start the next song > with a distinctive pop (either flushing a buffer or else it is setting the > output DAC from its last output value to the first output value of the next > song). If I stopped the Windows Media Player (or let it finish) at a silent > spot in the music, I have no pop playing the next song. I believe that this is > more likely to cause the pop rather than a strange bug in lame that only affects > the beginning of songs. > > Doug Wood > > Ben Tucker wrote: > > > On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Robert Hegemann wrote: > > > > > David wrote: > > > > Hello All, > > > > Has anyone else had the problem of a small pop at the beginning > > > > of playing an encoded file? I am just curious if it is a known problem. > > > > -David Swigger > > > > > > Hi David, > > > first of all we need to know what you did. > > > > > > Did you use an old version of Lame? > > > What are your Lame settings? > > > What kind of player do you use? (maybe winamp, what version?) > > > Is this small pop in the original wave? (could be the ripper) > > > > > > > Hey, I have this problem too. My *impression* is that the pop is > > from lame, 3.57 or 3.58 currently, I grab with leech under OS/2, and > > have encoded hundreds of songs, using tompg/2 and l3enc. Never had > > the pop before, but another variable is a newer, faster, less reliable, > > CDROM drive. I will try a few CDs tonight, to verify lame is, or is > > not, the source of the pop. I have used -b 128, and recently started > > using -v -b160. My prefered player is warpamp (b4?), but we have > > winamp in the house, too. Thanks for any insight... > > ---ben > > > > -- > > MP3 ENCODER mailing list ( http://geek.rcc.se/mp3encoder/ ) > > -- > MP3 ENCODER mailing list ( http://geek.rcc.se/mp3encoder/ ) > -- MP3 ENCODER mailing list ( http://geek.rcc.se/mp3encoder/ )
