<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div>This may be a confession of illegality. but anyway...</div><div><br></div><div>I acquired some time ago a CD produced by a company small and specialist <br></div><div>(lots of members of this group would like it)</div><div><br></div><div>Regrettably the spacing of tracks was off, <br></div><div>there was not time to draw breath between one and the next <br></div><div><br></div><div>Unasked my windows media player "ripped" it <br></div><div><br></div><div>Then the electronics persuaded me to burn a copy . . . <br></div><div><br></div><div>What happened wasn't nothing, the extant spaces between tracks expanded, to exactly what would have been right on the original. The original has for some time been safe from handling problems and tear if not wear ..</div><div><br></div><div>I suspect my memory is reliable of spacing technology on some CD-burning odds and ends, such that when the symphony (any symphony where this happens) involves more than a three-bar pause. or is quiet enough for long enough that it's heard only by human ears, <br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>as I was going to say, you wait and find an unplanned pause has been added --</div><div>I do remember now that a fellow member of the group assured me long ago that the tail end of a clarinet note lopped in the dubbing long back would not be lopped in the dubbing now. <br></div><div><br></div><div>That's Olf</div><div>oaks!<br></div></div></body></html>