You know, the answer to this riddle could be trouble from the pressing
plant.
Plant: "You want to put several minutes of audio in the 2-second pregap
before track one? Our machines will only accept a standard, 2-second,
silent pregap."
Label: "Crap! If we have someone else press it, we'll have to delay the
release, and we're already behind schedule. Ah, jeez, just cut the bonus
track..."
I'm in the middle of a similar situation right now, trying to figure out
why Cinram is choking on perfectly functional CD-Extra premasters, when
nobody at the plant can even say what the problem is.
The point is, I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that anyone is trying to
rip you off.
BTW, if you can rip audio from the pregap on a CD, let me know what you're
using to do it.
--Mark
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