Some ripper software allows you to rip specific sections of a track. You might not be limited to ripping just the whole track. Sometimes you can specify what time index markers to rip, depending on the software. Since I don't use Audiocatalyst, I don't know if it offers you this option. But if it did, that would be the easiest way to get rid of the noise: just rip the first part of the track- you already know what timestamp to enter for the end of the rip. Then you wouldn't have to do any after-the-fact editing at all.

Let me know what you end up doing.



-- Tony Fabris -- Empeg #144 --
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