Dan Hill/Vonda Sheppard-"Can’t We Try"

An update about the truncation people have noticed on the "Never Thought" promo CD single. I finally pulled out that single and the "Love of My Life" CD. This truncation issue puzzled me because I supplied the very CD single that was used for "Love of My Life".

I played both on my CD player and heard the truncation on the single, and not the compilation CD. I had a theory because I didn't think Dan or his team would take the 1st second from the album version to fix this problem for the "Love of My Life" album.

On many physical CD players and digital ones, too - If a song truly starts right at 0:00 and not a half a second later, the player can truncate the beginning (even digital players on your computer) when playing. So I loaded the CD single into my computer and checked it out in Wavelab. It does indeed start at the very beginning. (Well, of course, it would if it was truncated). But it sounded pretty much unclipped to me there. So I added half a second of silence in front of it on the WAV file. And it did not sound clipped! (If it's still clipping, it's like 1% of what the CD single was doing in my CD player, but I really think I was hearing the whole beginning of the note).

So mystery solved. The intro isn't clipped on the CD single. It just starts right at 0:00 and many players will cut it off.

Incidentally, if a song were to start right at 0:00 on, say, Tracks 2-10 of a CD, it wouldn't be a problem, because it would play from song 1 into song 2 just fine, etc. (unless, again, you started the disc on Track 2).

But this was a CD single with just one track. So on a physical player, there's no way to get around the clip unless you have a CD player that doesn't truncate a file that starts right at 0.

Edited by EdisonLite

EdisonLite wrote: So mystery solved. The intro isn't clipped on the CD single. It just starts right at 0:00 and many players will cut it off.

I lined up both tracks from the CD single and from
Love Of My Life The Best Of. There's about a half
second of audio that's missing on the intro of the CD
single version. I even added a few seconds of silence
before the track. My copy is clipped at least. Perhaps
you could forward me yours to compare? Thanks very much.