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Sep 22, 2006, 03:46 AM
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I'm not sure if you're talking about slow intros into songs (sup Mars Volta), where the song gradually fades in, or if (more likely), you mean the 2 second pause between tracks.
IIRC, the original purpose was because in the early days, CD Players/Stero CD Players didn't have any sort of crossfade/seemless track feature, and only when CDs got super popular did they start adding that in. Of course now with mp3 playlists and no silence between songs on portable music players that limitation is pretty much gone. It may just be a vestige of the old days. One theory I have is that for Cassette tapes (possibly), the silence between songs was to subtily indicate a change of song.
Any Audiophilles care to correct/build on my hypothesis?
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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