Jim,
Thanks for the quick response.
After some time-consuming testing, the problem seems to be unrelated to your suggestion, but I think is caused by the following:
I have several Turtle Beach "AudioTrons" (Ethernet audio players) throughout my house, which I use to play .WAV files from. The .Wavs need semi-proprietary tags for the AudioTron to catalog them neatly. Turtle Beach includes a very limited program called "AudioStation" with the AudioTron to do this. It is similar to MJ, but MUCH more limited. But, it rips and tags the .WAV files so the A.Tron can neatly display your library.
I have been ripping the CDs to .WAV with this, and then converting to MP3 with Cdex.
After switching to MJ (very recently) I have been ripping the CD to WAV with MJ, and then dragging the whole album or .WAVs into "AudioStation" to tag them en-mass (Artist/Album) and then manually put in the track number for each track.
Then, I use MJ to Convert the .WAVs to MP3 for the MP3 mirror directory.
Here is the problem:
*** The .WAV files that have NOT been tagged by "AudioStation" produce perfect Mp3 Conversions via MJ.
*** .Wav files which HAVE been tagged by A.Station have the "Pop" at the end of the resulting MP3.
Oddly, CDex (using the same LAME encoder you use) can compress any of the A.Station tagged .WAVS without producing the "pop".
AudioStation can do the same.
Only MJ can't convert the "tagged" .WAVS properly.
I realize this could be viewed as a problem with the .WAV file, rather than a problem with MJ, but because the other programs seem to "ignore" the tag in the .WAV, there must be something MJ is doing differently.
- I can work around - I'll just tag the .WAVs AFTER converting to MP3 with MJ.
- Sorry for the long post, but maybe it will help you continue to improve your already great SW product.
BTW, you can dowload a "free" version of "AudioStation" if you have any desire to check this out at:
www.voyetra.comI would love to trash AudioStation altogether if MJ could just tag my .WAVs in the same way, so my Audiotrons could read them.
- Chris.