Topic: Cleaning up a mid-song cut

[Massive Dynamic]

I recently extracted audio from a CD-R trade. There is a small gap in the middle on one track, but it's longer in the left channel than it is in the right (see attached screen grab). Should I copy audio from the right channel and copy to the left? Then eliminate the gap remaining in both channels?

[vanark]

For 1/100th of a second? I would not bother. Just cut out and repair the full segment.

[robgronotte]

I can't see the picture very well. The whole gap is only .01 second? Can you even hear it? If it is that short, you can probably just delete it. Or if that makes the rhythm of the song sound off, you could instead copy a bit from right before and / or after the gap.

But really even better might be to patch it with a music editor like izotope RX, which interpolates what should be there. If it's just the one small spot I could fix it for you that way.

[Massive Dynamic]

I can't see the picture very well. The whole gap is only .01 second? Can you even hear it? If it is that short, you can probably just delete it. Or if that makes the rhythm of the song sound off, you could instead copy a bit from right before and / or after the gap.

But really even better might be to patch it with a music editor like izotope RX, which interpolates what should be there. If it's just the one small spot I could fix it for you that way.

If you click on the attachment, it gets bigger. The gap is probably about 1/10 of a second, and it is audible. I actually found a second gap in another track, and I decided to fix both of them by copying the tiny R channel wav to the L channel, then clipping out the remaining gap in both channels. It's mostly unnoticeable, now. Sector boundaries would be off, but I don't plan to burn a new disc.

[vanark]

I can't see the picture very well. The whole gap is only .01 second? Can you even hear it? If it is that short, you can probably just delete it. Or if that makes the rhythm of the song sound off, you could instead copy a bit from right before and / or after the gap.

But really even better might be to patch it with a music editor like izotope RX, which interpolates what should be there. If it's just the one small spot I could fix it for you that way.

The entire gap is 0.08 seconds in the L channel and 0.07 in the R channel. My point was that I didn't think it was worth it to copy the extra 0.01 from the R to the L. Chopping the full 0.08 out would be a better choice for me.

Glad it worked out for the OP.

[AbbyTaper]

I can't see the picture very well. The whole gap is only .01 second? Can you even hear it? If it is that short, you can probably just delete it. Or if that makes the rhythm of the song sound off, you could instead copy a bit from right before and / or after the gap.

But really even better might be to patch it with a music editor like izotope RX, which interpolates what should be there. If it's just the one small spot I could fix it for you that way.

If you click on the attachment, it gets bigger. The gap is probably about 1/10 of a second, and it is audible. I actually found a second gap in another track, and I decided to fix both of them by copying the tiny R channel wav to the L channel, then clipping out the remaining gap in both channels. It's mostly unnoticeable, now. Sector boundaries would be off, but I don't plan to burn a new disc.

The gap will be audible if you leave it in, but if you cut it out you won't notice the spot.