Add silence to start of Album playback

[enjdee]

Hi, thanks for the suggestions. Good point @simbun, that physically changing a track would upset other tagging routines, and break AccurateRip - maybe need to rethink that one then.

Not sure how many albums are likely to need "treatment" - but essentially it would be audible on anything that doesn't fade in at the start, I guess (so Dark Side of the Moon is fine, but something like Mark Knopfler's Sailing to Philadelphia is fractionally truncated). Good excuse to listen to the entire collection again, I suppose! :-)

The idea of adding a track 0 makes sense, so it doesn't affect the integrity of the music tracks - I did try something like that a while ago, but couldn't get it to work at the time (I didn't have much time to play, however, so will have another go).

I asked Cambridge if they could include an option in a future firmware update to add a momentary delay to the start of playback. Their support guy agreed it was technically possible and would suggest it to their engineers, but thought it unlikely to happen - I guess most of their customers either are happy to use analogue outs, or have DACs that latch on to a signal faster than my Arcam. I know the DACs in the CXN are very good, but it does seem a shame not to be able to use the even better Arcam circuitry!