Obgligatory lack of gapless & aacPlus comment - muon

iTunes has had gapless playback forever. Go in your preferences and check Crossfade Playback and set the fade to 0 seconds. Gapless. Enjoy.

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Wednesday, October 12 2005 @ 08:56 PM PDT

Obgligatory lack of gapless & aacPlus comment - omweg

You've got to be kidding!? Crossfading a gap is nowhere near the same as gapless playback.

It's quite simple to implement actually. AAC supports it, a lot of MP3's out there support it. It's up to the player to use the extra info in the file to skip the gap. iTunes simply doesn't.

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Thursday, October 13 2005 @ 03:53 AM PDT

Perhaps you shoudl actually try it before commenting? - sjonke1

Let me guess - you've never actually tried it have you? Or you have, but you've only done so with tracks that have a gap between them to start with (or you are on random play.) If you had actually tried it you would quickly come to realize that in fact setting the crossfade to 0 does not work. You still end up with a weird effect between tracks. It's different, but it is there, and perhaps even more annoying. You won't notice this if you are only playing tracks that are not suppose to be seamless between then, but if you are playing tracks that are suppose to be seamless you will hear it. Try using a 0 second crossfade with a live album/recording that does not have breaks between tracks (that isn't suppose to have breaks), then come back here and correct yourself.

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Thursday, October 13 2005 @ 08:32 AM PDT

Obgligatory lack of gapless & aacPlus comment - Pres!

I agree, this is a disappointment. Re-importing the tracks as one big track in iTunes works, but who wants to have to re-import a bunch of CDs just for that?

Not worth a 1-point update, that's for sure.

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Thursday, October 13 2005 @ 06:49 PM PDT