There is some good info here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gapless_playback
Which explains what is going on.
It has been fixed in iTunes but it does require that you check a tick box to
enable gapless playback for an album. This can be done when you rip the CD in
or retrospectively once the files are in iTunes. In my experience it seems to
work very well on the iPod.
Phil
----- Original Message ----
From: Dan Dugan <>
To:
Sent: Saturday, 19 July, 2008 7:11:40 PM
Subject: [Nature Recordists] continuous playback of gapless MP3 albums
> While CD
> Audio players play smoothly between tracks of continuing material, I
> find MP3 players often place noticeable gaps between tracks. Or is
> there a way to encode mp3s not to do that?
It's the players, not the encoding. It comes from the mind-set of
playing "songs," with the idea of the "concept album" that plays
continuously having been forgotten somewhere in the 80s or 90s.
iTunes has finally managed to fix that, I think. Complain to the
player software makers.
-Dan Dugan
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