[shadybirdstan]

I made the mistake of not knowing to join the CD tracks after I just imported a whole ton of CDs into my iTunes library.

Does anybody know if it is possible to join the tracks after they are already converted to MP3. I'm hoping for some kind of work around b/c I can't seem to figure it out.

[shadybirdstan]

Looks like I'm pretty much out of luck. I guess what I was hoping is a way to remove iTunes' gaps that it puts between songs.

Maybe next release.......

[OB1]

I'm guessing you've got some mixtapes that came on cd that included trackmarks? That was my problem that I couldn't find an easy solution to. Just had to re-rip...

[madmacgames]

Originally posted by shadybirdstan:
I guess what I was hoping is a way to remove iTunes' gaps that it puts between songs.

I have a number of CDs ripped that are not meant to have any gap or space between tracks (mainly Pink Floyd albums) and when I ripped them, iTunes did not put a gap between the songs.

To get it to play correctly I just had to go into iTunes' effects prefs and turn off the crossfade (which is on by default) and some other things. It will play without gaps now, but the software studders sometimes between tracks, but from what I can tell it is a software or hardware problem (or lack or hardware problem) and maybe a bit more RAM would take care of it.

[OB1]

Originally posted by madmacgames:
To get it to play correctly I just had to go into iTunes' effects prefs and turn off the crossfade (which is on by default) and some other things. It will play without gaps now, but the software studders sometimes between tracks, but from what I can tell it is a software or hardware problem (or lack or hardware problem) and maybe a bit more RAM would take care of it.

From what I've read elsewhere, it isn't a hardware issue. If iTunes sees a trackmark there will be slight blip between tracks. Regardless of how fast your machine is. Annoying.

[madmacgames]

Originally posted by OB1:
From what I've read elsewhere, it isn't a hardware issue. If iTunes sees a trackmark there will be slight blip between tracks. Regardless of how fast your machine is. Annoying.

That is what I meant... it sometimes chokes between tracks (it does not always choke for me)... there isn't actually a gap there, and it doesn't add a gap when ripping, the software just chokes sometimes when going from one track to the next... (and I said hardware too because I have not tested on a faster machine or one with more RAM to see if it still chokes). Also iTunes is not the only software that has trouble going from track to track. Of all that I've tried, from my PC days, winAmp was the only one I recall able to go straight from one track to the next without choking. If I recall correctly, windows media player choked quite a bit...

[dreilly1]

Short answer to your question: no.

We've had quite a few threads regarding this gap ever since iTunes came out. A few were recent just after iTunes 4.5 came out. It is most definitely a software problem.

iTunes 4.5 (more specifically, QuickTime 6.5.1) kind of fixes this, though. While there may still be a minor volume hiccup between tracks, the tempo between songs is not affected anymore, which makes the gap much less asthetically offensive, at least to me.

One sad side effect, though, is that songs ripped through iTunes can't be played gapless in WinAmp, probably because they do different things on playback to get rid of the gap. Which is why I haven't started ripping my collection in iTunes yet. Perhaps the Apple Lossless codec is different, but I haven't had a chance to test-drive it yet.

BTW, this is one of my pet peeves. I am resisting the urge to pontificate endlessly on the topic.

[shadybirdstan]

Yes, unfortunately I just ripped a bunch of live CDs as well as Pink Floyd CDs that I really don't feel like doing again.

*sigh*