Stress-test Audio CD
162Never mind just gapless playback - let's throw 99 tracks at various CD players (hardware and software) within 40 seconds and see how they handle it!
The music I used is "Nature's Gasp" by Atmozfears & Devin Wild. Big thanks to Atmozfears for letting me use it here (now let's hope that YouTube's automatic song recognition doesn't punish me despite that...).
This test just naturally emerged after I played around with splitting tracks in a hardstyle mix for seamlessly playing on a CD. The trick to ensuring no silence between tracks was to split on CDDA frame boundaries (every 2352 bytes, which makes 75 per second for audio CDs). It took me some time before I realised that Audacity can measure position in CDDA frames and that I didn't have to convert the number of samples into CDDA frames myself every time...
I don't have a grudge against Foobar or anything - it really did get stuck in a loop of spinning up and down the CD the last time I tried it. Also, this may be my most anticlimactic and rushed ending ever.