 MsTerraCallipygianPremium
join:2002-08-20
The Bubble
kudos:1 | reply to MicrotoastXP
Re: iPod *Gapless Playback? From this iLounge article (emphasis mine):
iTunes now has options that enable the long-requested feature called “gapless playback.” This enables the continuous, uninterrupted playback of certain albums which were meant to be played without the short gaps that iTunes and previous iPods had to place between tracks. Good examples are live concert albums and electronic mixes. Those of you who've tried it, were the albums you're using originally mastered for the music to run continuously from track to track? If not, that may be where you're having "problems".
I haven't downloaded the update yet, but I'm hopeful I'll finally get proper playback of the "concept albums" on my iPod.
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tpeng
join:2003-01-30
Forest Hills, NY | said by MsTerra:Those of you who've tried it, were the albums you're using originally mastered for the music to run continuously from track to track? If not, that may be where you're having "problems". The original mastering shouldn't be an issue - gapless playback is (well, it should be) based on an algorithm to strip padding from the last audio frame past the end of the track (and not add the CD-standard 2 seconds of silence). It should not require file metadata that tells it where the track ends within the last frame, because even though that would be the best "perfect" solution, most legacy files won't have that metadata (and formats may not even support it).
Perhaps it took Apple this long to incorporate gapless playback because they wanted it to be automatic and work seamlessly across legacy and non-iTunes tracks... but in the end they settled on the per-file "flag" because there was no other way around it. Gapless has been available on iPods if you use 3rd party software, and is implemented in a similar way. |
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 jDynoPremium
join:2001-02-20
Washington, DC | reply to MsTerra
said by MsTerra:Those of you who've tried it, were the albums you're using originally mastered for the music to run continuously from track to track? If not, that may be where you're having "problems". I have a bunch of downloaded (legally, allowed by the bands) live concerts, so obviously these aren't "mastered" at all, and the gapless playback works on them.
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