Avoiding Gapless Playback

[skunk]

I don't like "gapless playback": if a playlist has Maria Callas followed by Captain Beefheart, I need those two seconds in between. Is it possible to disable it, or do I have to downgrade (again) to v6?

 

[PYR0M310N]

highlight both of the songs and right click/ ctrl click and go into get info. then at the bottom there is the gapless playback option, and this should be set to no.

Hope this is what you were looking for.

 

[Counterfit]

There shouldn't be any gapless playback unless you have it set in the song's options. Check to see if you have crossfade turned on. Even if it's off though, you won't get 2 full seconds, or even one.

 

[skunk]

highlight both of the songs and right click/ ctrl click and go into get info. then at the bottom there is the gapless playback option, and this should be set to no.

Hope this is what you were looking for.

Doesn't make any difference, as far as I can see. Still no gap. I can't see what that checkbox is for at all. It's checked by default, and every song still runs straight into the next. No gap. Why the hell have they messed this up? I'd actually rather have four or five seconds' grace before the next song.

 

[gloss]

Doesn't make any difference, as far as I can see. Still no gap. I can't see what that checkbox is for at all. It's checked by default, and every song still runs straight into the next. No gap. Why the hell have they messed this up? I'd actually rather have four or five seconds' grace before the next song.

Was it ever that long? My iPod has always had a brief, millisecond long silence between songs. Short enough to just break the flow.

 

[skunk]

Was it ever that long? My iPod has always had a brief, millisecond long silence between songs. Short enough to just break the flow.

It used to follow the import preferences, i.e. a default value of 2 secs. If I could just add two seconds onto the end of each track, that would do it, but my attempts to do that don't stick (you can shorten the song, but you cannot lengthen it), and anyway that's a hell of a process for each song, unless there's a script to do it.

 

[danny_w]

I asked this very same question several times in the past, and no fix was ever put forward. I have never used gapless, I have not upgraded iTunes to the 'gapless' version, crossfade is disabled, and yet both my iTunes and my iPod (Nano) run songs together! It is very annoying, and I never remember having this with other mp3 players. Both my iPod and iTunes have been relegated to mostly unused mainly because of this.

 

[skunk]

I asked this very same question several times in the past, and no fix was ever put forward. I have never used gapless, I have not upgraded iTunes to the 'gapless' version, crossfade is disabled, and yet both my iTunes and my iPod (Nano) run songs together! It is very annoying, and I never remember having this with other mp3 players. Both my iPod and iTunes have been relegated to mostly unused mainly because of this.

I agree, and to make it worse, I've just blown a wad on two sets of speakers and can't listen to my CDs as recorded. 😡

Any script kiddies out there got any bright ideas?

 

[apfhex]

There shouldn't be any gapless playback unless you have it set in the song's options. Check to see if you have crossfade turned on. Even if it's off though, you won't get 2 full seconds, or even one.

Durrr, iTunes 7 adds gapless playback to all tracks, all the time. True gapless has got to be the longest requested feature, since 1.0. I know I've been waiting for it for that long. It would be nice if they allowed you to set an option to add a gap between songs though.

From iTunes Help...

Gapless Playback in iTunes
Gapless playback is always on in iTunes 7 or later unless the Crossfade feature is turned on. If Crossfade is on, only audio files that have the "Part of a gapless album" option checked and are capable of being played gaplessly will play with no gaps

 

[danny_w]

Durrr, iTunes 7 adds gapless playback to all tracks, all the time. True gapless has got to be the longest requested feature, since 1.0. I know I've been waiting for it for that long. It would be nice if they allowed you to set an option to add a gap between songs though.

From iTunes Help...

I use iTunes 6, and have never upgraded to 7 for that very reason. Now I know that I never will.