Burning a gapless album

How can I burn a gapless album from an album with tracks. (For example opera downloads have tracks with silence at the end of each track for up to 10 seconds; even though, the burned cd should have no gaps whatsoever.) I've tried using get info and making all tracks gapless, turing on and off crossfade, and setting the gap to none on the burning popup. I'd appreciate any help.

I am having a similar issue in that I have recorded a DJ set in Sound Studio, split the tracks by markers, and imported the tracks into iTunes. If I play the mix in iTunes, it plays seamlessly from one track to another, but when I burn the same seamless, gapless mix album to a CD, there are the slightest gaps, or jumps, between tracks. iTunes will not allow me to change the start and stop times of the tracks, but I think it's a larger issue. I didn't have this problem until I downloaded iTunes 9. I made perfectly good copies of some of the same mix albums in iTunes 8 that will now no longer burn properly. I have even handed out some of these as demos, which makes the whole issue personally embarrassing. I didn't bother to check them out as they had burnt fine before this whole debacle.
I thought it was perhaps something I did during the splitting of the tracks and transition to iTunes, but I've tried to burn copies of CD mixes from other artists, off of professionally recorded and published original CDs, with the same result.
My mixes are useless if there is even the slightest pause between track. Any continuous album is useless in this sense, and I don't see how this can be an issue that iTunes has not resolved by now. Does anybody have the same issues as a DJ? Can you recommend how I can import my split tracks into another program that will burn me a continuous mix CD that sounds proper? Any help would be appreciated.

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I am having trouble burning a gapless album that is a mixed compilation. I have selected part of compilation album on the options tab and I did select gap between songs as zero. When I play the cd, it is sticking between songs? Please help!

I am having trouble burning a gapless album that is a mixed compilation. I have selected part of compilation album on the options tab and I did select gap between songs as zero. When I play the cd back after burning, it is sticking between songs? Please help!

sheldz46 wrote:
Thanks Chris but according to Pioneer, is was possible with the itunes in 2010.
It wasn't. (at least as far as setting Part of Gapless album goes. See next para.)
They claim that itunes will work if you select gapless album, part of a compilation
Selecting Gapless album does not make it gapless. (which is likely that now this option is removed - to not confuse people)
The ONLY thing that option did was tell iTunes to NOT crossfade consecutive songs from same gapless album IF you had crossfade enabled.
-> http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1797
Setting the gap to 0 is what made it "seem" gapless.
Perhaps it is not working as it used to.
Try a slower burn speed.
and used itunes to convert them to mp3
Dont know why they suggest this.
Simply use the WAV file. Then there will be no loss (as there is when converted to MP3).

160 Gb Classic - Audio dropouts, gaps on gapless albums with apple lossless

Dear All,
Since getting my new iPod Classic 160 Gb iPod Classic, I am experiencing audio dropouts that last between one and two seconds. They aren't frequent, occurring maybe one every hour or two of audio playback. They appear to be very random. If I play back the same track after having a dropout, it plays fine and doesn't happen again in the same place. This doesn't appear to be connected to my moving or shaking the iPod around, as it will happen when I am sitting down and perfectly stationary. Also, I don't think it is related to a bad earphone connection, as I a have played the iPod with several pairs of new and/or high quality earphones. More info: Most of my files are Apple Lossless and content is primarily regular music albums. Of note, this is the second 160 Gb iPod I've had with the same problems! The first one I brought down to the Apple Store in Ginza, Tokyo and they replaced it in the blink of an eye after I explained the same as above.
Prior to the 160 Gb Classic, I have owned 1st, 3rd and 5th generation iPods (plus a 2nd gen. Nano and shuffle). The 5th gen. 60 Gb was playing the exact same audio files and never had any dropouts.
I have reset the Classic and reinstalled all my music files (with the most recent ipod software 1.0.2 and running iTunes 7.5) twice now, but the problem remains. I am now thinking of taking one of two possible routes of action. a) go back down to the Apple Store and try to get another iPod replacement (and hope and pray that it doesn't experience this problem) or, b) change all my music files to something like 192 kbps and hope (and pray!) the iPod can handle the smaller file size without the dropouts. At the moment, I am leaning towards going down to the Apple Store as it would actually be the less time consuming of the two for me.
What do you wise people out there think? Exchange iPod or downsize my audio files? Or, does anyone have another suggestion or recommendation on how to resolve this issue? Thanks for any assistance.
To add to this, I have also noticed that several of my gapless albums (DJ mix CD's like those by Global Underground), no longer play consistently "gapless". Sometimes it will pass smoothly between tracks and other times there will be a small pause/gap. No doubt, I have checked the gapless album box and selected yes, in the album get info section for all of these albums, but still problems remain. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Again, my previous iPod, 5th gen. 60 Gb had none of these problems with the same files. I am really happy with the 160 Gb capacity of my new classic but feel a bit let down with these problems I'm having.
Regards,
Peter B.

Thank heaven! I thought I might be the only one.
My situation almost exactly mirrors your own. My first 160GB classic suffered from sudden dropouts, apparently random and almost impossible to replicate in any predictable fashion. For example, I'd start playing an album and would hear a one or two second dropout in the second track, but in attempting to replicate the situation exactly (as in, powering down the iPod, powering it back up and starting over from the first track of the album) I'd find that the fault didn't recur. Restoring and reloading made no difference at all.
So I took it in to the Apple Store and had it replaced, loaded the replacement up with music and was dismayed to discover myself facing the same problem. I too have had several iPods which were loaded off this same library, and none of them ever gave trouble in this fashion.
I think the issue might just be the size of the files in our libraries. The bulk of my files are at 320kbps, and you mentioned yours were mostly Lossless - could it be that the classic has problems dealing with large files? It's a very frustrating issue, since the audio quality of my classic is so much better to my ears than that of my previous iPod 5G.
I recommend that you take the iPod in and take them to task about it. That's certainly what I'm going to do - I really don't want to re-encode all my music, especially considering that I bought this iPod due to the burgeoning size of my library, and re-encoding would defeat the point. Plus, since it has better sound it sort of deserves to be loaded with larger files. I just hope this isn't an irremediable issue, which I'm starting to suspect it might be, since your iPods were obtained in Japan and mine in the UK. I'll continue posting as this unfolds, and I hope you'll do the same.

ITunes 11 - Gapless Albums not working

I have some "gapless" albums in my Library. This should mean that when playing the album back, no pause or gap should be heard between each track on these albums. Apparently iTunes 11 identifies gapless albums, and dissables "Crossfade Songs" for these albums automatically (if it is enabled). iTunes should then string all the tracks on the album together to create on long performance, with no gaps (unless the recording itself has some quiet moments).
In iTunes 11, I have found for my gapless albums, there is a gap (no sound) after one track finishes and the next one starts. Also, I have found the option to turn on or off gapless album no longer exists - apparently it never did turn gapless on or off anyway, see this URI
http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/music-audio-podcasting/290496-itunes-11-gapless -album-artwork.html
I switched off "Crossfade Songs" under "Playback Preferences" in iTunes Preferences, and then restarted iTunes. This made no difference, so I switched it back on again and restarted iTunes. Still, no difference - there are gaps.
Perhaps Apple should consider an option to "Enable" / "Dissable" / "Default" (Apple chooses the appropriate setting) gapless behaviour for each album, and let the listener decide and override if desired.

I just got off the phone with Apple support....
They have eliminated gapless playback of albums, so now EVERY song on a mixed DJ set or Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon (or millions of other albums) - each track will have a 1 second gap between them. COmpletely ruining the way the album was meant to be listened to.
They reverse-engineered and went back to crappy playback like Android and Windows OS phones USED to do. Doesn't make much sense does it?
I repaeat - do NOT upgrade to iTunes 11, you will be severely disappointed.
For those that have already upgraded and lost gapless playback, submit a Feedback request and demand for gapless playback to be brought back into iTunes ASAP!!! FIll out the form here:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

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I highlighted an album that is supposed to connect together and checked off gapless album, but there is still a 2-3 second pause inbetween them.

Anyone?

Gapless album transistion feature doesn't work

I normally have the "crossfade" feature turned on when listening to playlists. However, I have several songs in my itunes library that have cold endings. I do not want to crossfade these songs. The "Part of a Gapless Album" feature (get info>options) is supposed to allow individual songs to be excluded from crossfading in a playlist. It doesn't seem to work. Any ideas?

What about it? Mine is set to normal. How is setting it to "bright" make a difference?

ITunes 7.7 'Part of a gapless album' Sham

G'day,
I've just upgraded to iTunes 7.7 and to my disgust realised that when selecting the 'Part of a gapless album' option now no longer works for certain tracks in playback mode. The problem tracks are okay when played back in my iPod, but as I listen to my music mostly on PC, this is incredibly annoying. I'm not sure whether to downgrade or wait for updates to 7.7 - not good Apple!
Anyone else experiencing something similar?
Cheers,
Dash

Okay, I have an update that may enlighten you. I've discovered playback in iTunes 7.7 does indeed work, but only if you play the first track from the start, or forward five seconds or so from the end. I was forwarding with less than five seconds left on the first track, so there was a gap before the second track started. So, if I listen to track one from the beginning, or forward it with about five seconds remaining, track two plays without any gaps - seamless!
Maybe Apple ain't so bad after all
I've also tried this on an older version of iTunes installed on my laptop so it's definitely not an issue with 7.7
Hope this helps anyone remotely interested
Cheers,
Dash

Burn Events AND Albums to DVD

I would like to burn a copy of my iPhoto '08 library (which will fit on a single DVD) that will be re-mountable within iPhoto. However, it seems to allow me to EITHER burn all the events, but then no albums are retained OR burn all the albums, but then only photos which have been added to those albums are burned to disc. I would simply like to have a COMPLETE iPhoto library backup. The wrinkle is that most of the photos were not copied into the iPhoto Library folder/package, but rather referenced in an external folder. I would be willing to have iPhoto consolidate the originals from the external folder into a new single iPhoto Library package. Is there anyway to accomplish this?
Thanks,
JV

most of the photos were not copied into the iPhoto Library folder/package, but rather referenced in an external folder.
This is the worst case scenario - a mixed library, part managed, part referenced and is a recipe for disaster.
This thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1356720&tstart=0
mentions an app called AliasHerder which will make the library a referenced one. Then you can simply use the Share -> Burn command to back up the library to a disk that
will be re-mountable within iPhoto.
Simply make sure you have the Library selected in the iPhoto Window, not a particular Event or Album.
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TD

I want to play one gapless album and have the Ipod turn off. When I download my audiobooks as a compilation does that automate going from one gapless album to the next?

I created a gapless album by joining the tracks on a disc in a multiple disc audiobook. I want my classic Ipod to turn off after it finishes an album but it continues on to the next disc (album) in the audiobook automatically. When it finishes the multiple discs contained in the compilation of one album it continues to the next audiobook. This is great when listening to the audiobook in a car while driving, but not when I use the Ipod to put me to sleep at night. Why does it do this?

Did you put the library on the external drive, or just the media folder. See this migrate iTunes library post for the way this ought to be done and recovery tips for when it is no longer possible.
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Do these options need to be checked (on) for audio books? I have checked Remember playback and Skip when shuffling, but not sure about the gapless album option. If they are not on, Will I have to start each new disk segment manually or will it play automatically, anyway?
I want to upload the audio books to a Shuffle, which uses voice notification and don't want to have to click my way through trying to find a track.

Okay, I have an update that may enlighten you. I've discovered playback in iTunes 7.7 does indeed work, but only if you play the first track from the start, or forward five seconds or so from the end. I was forwarding with less than five seconds left on the first track, so there was a gap before the second track started. So, if I listen to track one from the beginning, or forward it with about five seconds remaining, track two plays without any gaps - seamless!
Maybe Apple ain't so bad after all
I've also tried this on an older version of iTunes installed on my laptop so it's definitely not an issue with 7.7
Hope this helps anyone remotely interested
Cheers,
Dash

Where can I find the gapless album option, Itunes 11.4

Tried to locate the gapless album option. Album bought on Itunes, 2second gap between all songs. Have no idea how to change even after reading posts.

There is no gapless option.
If the album is gapless it will play as gapless.
This has always been the case. (since iTunes 7)
The ONLY thing that option did was to not fade songs over each other if it was checked AND songs on the same gapless albums were played consecutively.
It did not make the album gapless.

Gapless Albums?

I am trying to make my Ipod play a "gapless album" but I can't. I can get it to play on my computer (Itunes) but I cannpt get it to play on my actual Ipod. I selected the songs from the album (Darkside of the moon-Pink Floyd) went to "get info" and selected "gapless album" and sync'd it. I started my Ipod, went to "Albums" selected "Darkside" and hit play but I still had gaps, please help!

Gapless playback should be on in iTunes 7 unless you have the crossfade feature on (which the iPod doesn't support.)
See:http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304362
Just to confirm you have a Classic, check here. I ask because you are posting in the forum for older iPods and not the iPod Classic forum.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61688
Life in "The Smoke" is fine thanks.

Burn multiple iphoto albums to one dvd

Hi,
I would like to burn multiple iphoto albums onto one dvd.
Any help would be much appreciated,
Brandon

What's the destination of this disk? Another Mac with iPhoto? Then use the Share -> Burn command
Anything else: Select the Albums in the iPhoto Window and export them to Folders on the desktop. Then burn those folders with the Finder.
One exception: Going to view the files on a DVD player? You'll need to create the disk in iDVD.
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Purchasing a mix (gapless) album on itunes?

will a complete mix album (gapless as on the original cd) be gapless if bought via itunes?

Possibly you might have to change the tracks to have "part of a gapless album" checked off, but I'd hope Apple already set that up for you.

Can I Export a Gapless Album?

Hi,
I'm a musician who's just wrapping up work on an album of my own music I'd like to make available for download as a single, free, zipped file on my website.
I've got the songs set up with the desired pauses between them as a gapless album in iTunes. Most of the songs go right into the next with a few exceptions. (Adding time to the Options tab's Stop Time parameter seems to do the trick.)
Is there any way to export this album from iTunes? If I just drag the song files onto the desktop, will the Gapless and Stop Time settings be respected?
I haven't figured out a good, objective way to test this.
Does anyone know for sure how this all works?
Thanks.

I don't know for certain, but I suspect that if you export the files as MP3, the whole files will be exported and each individual user would have to choose to make each song Gapless. I doubt the Stop times would be respected in the export.
Are you familiar with the program, Audacity? It's a free, open-source sound editor. Using Audacity (rather than iTunes), you could record and splice your songs (I highlight the portion I want to be a single track and then use File -> Export Selection as MP3). You might have success naming the tracks with track No then name for the sake of the zip file. You'd have to include instructions (a read-me) telling the user to make the files gapless.

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