Feurio Frequently Asked Questions - Definition:
Index-0 music

As described under "Indexes" a track can be divided up into several indexes.
Index-0 normally contains nothing but silence and represents the pause before the track.

The specific feature of index-0:
On the CD the starting position of each track is stored in the CD directory (the "Table of Contents); however the position of index 1 is stored here.
Therefore the index-0 is skipped if a track is accessed directly! (The CD-Player starts with index 1 then.)
So the index-0 (and therefore the index-0 silence) will ONLY be played if the CD is played continously!
Therefore almost all CD-Players display index 1 of a track as position 0, the index-0 area is usually identified by negative values.
Now, if you write music data to the index-0 area of a track this will have the following consequences:
a) ACCESSING the track directly will "skip" the index-0 area.
b) If the playback is started with a previous track, the previous will be "normally" played at first. As soon as the index-0 area is reached the new track number will be displayed; the time display is negative on most CD-Players. If the index-0 area contains 20s of music the time display will show a playing time from -20 to 0.
ATTENTION: Some CD-Players display only "0:00" on index-0 - in this case the display will show "0:00" for 20 seconds.
c) As mentioned the position of index 1 is stored in the CD's directory and track times are calculated from the position within the CD's directory. Therefore the index-0 area is always "added" to the previous track.
Example:
Track 1: 3 minutes
Track 2: 5 minutes altogether, 30 seconds of it index-0 music
After burning you will get the following directory:
Track 1: 3:30
Track 2: 4:30
d) ATTENTION: The "Remaining track time" display of the CD-Player will not work correctly in this case. A CD-Player always calculates the remaining track time from the difference of the starting position (index of the next track minus the current position - so the index-0 part of the next track will be "included".


Index-0 music is perfect for hiding e. g. the house announcer on a live recording or similar things, that actually already belong to the track, but shall not be played if the track is accessed directly.

HIDDEN BONUS TRACK
You can crack a special "joke" if you fill the index-0 part of track 1 with music:
When the CD is inserted and "Start" has been pressed, the CD-Player will ALWAYS start with track 1, index 1 - the index-0 part is SKIPPED. Because track 1 has no previous tracks, the index-0 part will usually NOT be played!
The index-0 part will ONLY be played, if the rewind button is pressed during playback!

Produce index-0 music:
Of course Feurio!® can be used to produce index-0 music: Start the Feurio!® Trackeditor (button: "Trackeditor" in the project directory), set the cursor to the desired position, then click on "Set special index-0 marker" in the "Actions" menu.

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