Best way to rip pre-gap tracks?

dns_server · March 14, 2016, 10:13am

What is the best way to rip pre-gap tracks? I have a few releases that have them.

cloudzzz · March 14, 2016, 10:31am

I used EAC for this (on Windows or with wine).

Here is a guide how to deal with pregap and hidden tracks: https://web.archive.org/web/20130529085310/http://blowfish.be/eac/Rip/rip11-hidden.html

chirlu · March 14, 2016, 10:44pm

cdparanoia can read pre-gaps, too (provided the drive supports them). It will store them as track00.

Hawke · March 14, 2016, 10:56pm

morituri is probably your best bet for a Linux ripper.

EAC also works well under wine apart from some metadata plugins (including Musicbrainz sadly if I recall)

wonder_al · March 15, 2016, 2:29am

I’ve done it a few times. I rip the CD with XLD (Mac) then load it in Audacity. Then you can seperate the two tracks.
The main one I can think of that I did this with is The X-Files: Songs in the Key of X (pre-gap track).

Zastai · June 3, 2016, 3:05pm

In fact, that has 2 separate songs in its pregap (and currently does not credit the performer for the second).

tommycrock · June 3, 2016, 3:18pm

CueTools cueRipper also does pregap tracks and is very easy to use, integrates with mb and does secure ripping

Rovastar · June 4, 2016, 11:48pm

Sadly the problem with this is Musicbrainz taggers will not tag it.

wonder_al · June 5, 2016, 12:37am

It does for me:

As for the second pregap track not having an artist, my guess would be Mark Snow.

Rovastar · June 5, 2016, 12:41am

Sorry I misunderstood and didn’t read the topic/comment properly. I for some reason thought it was about split tracks where there is a gap of silence followed by another track.