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Originally Posted by Robokid
I want to have negative space between tracks so it doesn't do the slight hiccup before the next track starts
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I think you're talking about an obsolete feature that used to be used with the CD format. This would let you edit the "pause space" (extra space between tracks).
The concept was that the song file itself would be trimmed to play 'correctly' as a single and then any needed extra blank space for a proper segue would be handled by the pause space. An example that makes more sense might be a live album. You'd put the stage banter introducing the song in the pause space so you'd hear it in context when listening to the whole album but the song would start right at the 1st note when skipping to it or playing just the one track. During the pause space time, you see the hardware CD player clock counting backwards.
A bug in one of the earlier CD authoring apps is responsible for the ability to make that 'secret track' pause space you need to scroll back from the start of the 1st song to hear. (The bug being the ability to make this more than the intended 2 seconds and put recorded content there.)
Note that this system does nothing to eliminate errors (hiccups) or allow gapless vs. not gapless. Content is determined 100% by the song file itself. This is merely a system that used to be recognized by hardware CD players to affect where the index points go.
'Hiccups' or glitches between tracks (what people used to refer to as 'lack of gapless playback' or 'sector boundary errors') was a common problem with early bug riddled software. This was never a thing that you needed a 'feature' to prevent, it was straight up corrupt software with verifiable bugs.
Back to 2013...
If you still want to support this obsolete format for the couple older machines some of your listeners might have, you'll have to find an older CD authoring app that lets you edit these pause space values.
Make your final 24 bit (original sample rate) masters first. (This is priority one and what you want people to hear.)
Edit your final master so the segues between tracks are proper. (ie. Make the best choice for the starting point if content segues like a live recording for example.)
Make the reduced quality portable master next for the 16 bit format (CD) and further destruction to mp3.
Same segues/indexes editing, just reduced quality for the format.
Now make a 3rd "special pause space" CD master.
IMPORTANT
Understand that when anyone rips that CD to wav files (ie. anyone that listens to their media with a computer or portable device), the pause spaces you make (where the hardware CD player is counting backwards) will be appended to the end of each track they come after.
That means when you get creative with that live album and put the stage banter intro to a song in the pause space, the previous song will now end with that segue section. Kind of an awkward transition to the current non-use of this feature.