cd writers

I can't for the life of me work out a way to handle tracks on CDs which run seamlessly together. I have Adaptec Easy CD and Exact Audio Copy on my PC, but, regardless of the options I set, they always seem to insist on shoving a block of silence into the end of the extracted WAV file. EAC even offers an 'Extract Range' option, which one would think ideal for dealing with such material (simply select a range from 5 seconds before the track to 5 seconds after the track, and apply your own fades in CoolEdit or GoldWave), but no - the end result is the same: a dirty great gap at the end of the track.

I even have problems when creating an image file from such material (for example, a continuous [but indexed] 74-minute field-recording CD) for the purposes of copying the whole disc. Write the resultant file Disk-At-Once (to avoid the 2-second inter-track gaps TAO would insert) and I end up with a CD containing occasional glitches at track boundaries and a bloody great click right at the end.

Burner is an internal Samsung SW-212 (12x8x32), if that's any help.

As for the extraction software, Adaptec Easy CD Creator 4.02 is just the PC version of Toast, AFAIK and EAC is some kind of de facto standard in the industry for precise extraction (but it requires a fairly laborious set-up procedure which I may have mucked up). Easy CD doesn't offer much in the way of options upon extraction; under the 'Advanced' section you get two check-boxes: "Remove digital silence at end of track" and "Merge contiguous tracks into one file". No combination of these options circumvents my problem. Although I can see (from my CD player display) that there's clearly no pre-gap on these tracks (i.e. Index00 and Index01 are coincident), the extraction software seems to think there is, and mutes 2.5sec of the file.

i want to burn cds

i don't know if i should get an internal or external thingy?

i have a mac powerbook g3 bought in the dark ages of '99

do i need usb or something?

i would like the whole operation to cost ~$100

I am going external. Choices are USB or firewall. (I don't have firewall.)

I have a 2 USB ports, but apparently I need USB 2.0.

Do you think I have USB 2.0?

is there a way to configure this procedure automatically, or get it to convert entire playlists at once? or will i have to keep duplicating? see i thought adaptec was fairly popular (came with this computer anyway), are there perhaps any other cd writer set up programs i can download or are they intrinsic to the cd-r hardware? again, thnx

No firewire.

I hear USB is slow anyway, so maybe it won't matter if I don't have 2.0?

What about if I mainly want to create mix CDs, using CDs I already have? Will that be horribly slow as well?

Highly unscientific googling indicates that if, like mine, yours runs OS 9, USB 2.0 devices won't work as 2.0 devices alone, but Firewire will be compatible. Except maybe something like this lets you get 2.0 from a non-2.0 system?

(Not that I have any idea what I'm talking about.)

I have 8.6. Do you have 9 you could lend me, Gab? Someone can lend me 10, but I need 9 to go to 10.

Should it be firewire Lacie or USB 2.0 Lacie?

I have USB 1.0 so could save money and not have to buy a pc card and then if it was too slow I could buy a usb pc card.

Or, I could get the firewall pc card right off the bat to go with the firewall drive.

Which would be more useful in the long run, to have a firewire card or a usb card?

Also, how slow would it be on 1.0?

Also, I have 333mhz and I think the system requirements call for 350. Will I be ok?

This one:

http://www.jandr.com/JRProductPage.process?RestartFlow=t&Section_Id=1&Product_Id=3953876

Or this one: (which is the one they sell at the Apple store)

http://www.jandr.com/JRProductPage.process?RestartFlow=t&Section_Id=1&Product_Id=3674954