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sincil
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 Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 1:44 pm Post subject: iTunes and gaps |
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OK, this is beginning to really get to me now...
I listen to a lot of mixes, and have started ripping my mix CD's with iTunes.
Now, when I play these 'mixes' thru iTunes, at the start of the next track, there will be a very small gap as iTunes flicks onto the next track. This is SO annoying, because the gaps don't appear on the original CD's, and it totally knackers the flow of the music.
Burning my Mp3's back to CD is no problem, as I can burn without the gap, but how can I get iTunes to play back from my Library without gaps?!
I have messed with iTunes prefs (crossfade etc) with no joy. HELP! |
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e3mw
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 2:58 pm Post subject: Re: iTunes and gaps |
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| sincil wrote: | OK, this is beginning to really get to me now...
I listen to a lot of mixes, and have started ripping my mix CD's with iTunes.
Now, when I play these 'mixes' thru iTunes, at the start of the next track, there will be a very small gap as iTunes flicks onto the next track. This is SO annoying, because the gaps don't appear on the original CD's, and it totally knackers the flow of the music.
Burning my Mp3's back to CD is no problem, as I can burn without the gap, but how can I get iTunes to play back from my Library without gaps?!
I have messed with iTunes prefs (crossfade etc) with no joy. HELP! |
I misread your problem, you're having probs with the gaps in your library? -- I'm not sure how you could correct that... have you made sure that your imported mp3's don't have the gap built in from importing them? Maybe your itunes put the gaps in there while importing. Check that and lemme know what you find.
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sincil
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 3:17 pm Post subject: Re: iTunes and gaps |
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| e3mw wrote: | | sincil wrote: | OK, this is beginning to really get to me now...
I listen to a lot of mixes, and have started ripping my mix CD's with iTunes.
Now, when I play these 'mixes' thru iTunes, at the start of the next track, there will be a very small gap as iTunes flicks onto the next track. This is SO annoying, because the gaps don't appear on the original CD's, and it totally knackers the flow of the music.
Burning my Mp3's back to CD is no problem, as I can burn without the gap, but how can I get iTunes to play back from my Library without gaps?!
I have messed with iTunes prefs (crossfade etc) with no joy. HELP! |
I misread your problem, you're having probs with the gaps in your library? -- I'm not sure how you could correct that... have you made sure that your imported mp3's don't have the gap built in from importing them? Maybe your itunes put the gaps in there while importing. Check that and lemme know what you find. |
No, a lot of my CD's are continuous music of about 60mins, split into say 18 tracks. There are no gaps when played back.
When I import them into itunes, it sees each 'track' as a separate song and there will always be a split second gap between each track as itunes flicks onto the next track when playing back.
Obviously, the music doesn't flow as it should, because of annoying small gaps all the way through the 60minute mix. |
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e3mw
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 3:28 pm Post subject: |
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I have a 'mix' sort of like what you are talking about. One that is supposed to flow from track to track without stopping. Messing with my crossfade settings allows me to eliminate the "split second gap" but the crossfades are a bit annoying as sometimes you can tell that obviously two tracks are being mixed together. Maybe someone here knows how to tweak the crossfade options to make it work perfectly, but i'm ok with the crossfades for now.
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SStreet
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| Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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Strange, the default settings in iTunes should have you flowing between tracks with about 1 second of overlap. I use iTunes to trim all the "dead air" from the begining and end of each MP3/AAC I have in my library. Yes it is time consuming, but once you get in the habit of "Fixing" this each time you import/download new music - its takes no time at all.
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slickrick
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| Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 11:32 pm Post subject: |
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Good article, but that seems like a lot of work! |
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I thought so myself, I wouldn't fool with it personally, the gaps don't bother me that much 
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sincil
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| Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 11:28 am Post subject: |
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OK, I have found a (kind of) satisfactory solution.
1) Turn off auto import from CD's
2) Insert CD and browse to CD in iTunes
3) Select all tracks
4) Goto Advanced Menu and select 'Join CD Tracks'
5) Now import.
OK, now the CD will just be one long track (no info about the separate songs in itunes) BUT it plays the whole CD as it should - with no gaps between the defined tracks. |
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