New Ipods

[Guy Berger]

What I don't like about the Ipod is that it inserts a moment of silence between tracks. When your listening to a live piece or long piece that is divided upto into individual tracks you get these little hiccups which are very disturbing. The only way around this is to record the entire cd as one l-o-n-g track, which is problematic for say Abbey Road. I don't want to have to listen to "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" or "Octopus' Garden" everytime I want to hear the extended suite on side two.

I've never understood the hostility directed toward "Maxwell's Silver Hammer", which is a silly but fun song. But that's nothing compared to skipping "Octopus's Garden".

Guy

[Man with the Golden Arm]

re: iTunes 7 quirks

spoke w/ an apple tech and was told that the issues folks are experiencing are due to third party plug-ins and that it has nothing to do w/ the upgrade. "if you bought a new machine with it installed it would work perfectly".

huh?

kind of like replacing tires on the car but finding that that phantom bent rim that rode so smoothly with the old out of round wheels is now causing the wobble w/ the new factory issued set.

so it looks like i need to go and get under the hood ... which i don't do well.

[Stefan Wood]

Gapless Playback

iTunes now has options that enable the long-requested feature called “gapless playback.” This enables the continuous, uninterrupted playback of certain albums which were meant to be played without the short gaps that iTunes and previous iPods had to place between tracks. Good examples are live concert albums and electronic mixes.

To enable gapless playback for these albums, select the tracks in the album, choose “Get Info” from iTunes’ “File” menu, toggle “Gapless Album” to “Yes,” and click “OK.”

With this tag set properly, the iPod and iTunes will automatically play the tracks without gaps.