Crossfade Playback on iPod/nanoPod?

Is Crossfade Playback on iPod/Nano possible?
If not, why?

Yes, Yes, a thousand times yes...sort of...
Ok here was my problem. I agreed to "DJ" my mother-in-law's 70th Bday celebration. I set up my playlist in itunes and thought my ipod could crossfade. OOPS..it can't (at least not yet).
Not being one not to accept the limitations of technology (we must not let computers or their makers limit our creativity), and being cheap and not willing to buy additional hardware or software, I set upon a journey to solve this pressing global issue.
Here's a pretty lengthy but effective way to simulate the Crossfade effect on a playlist (hint: it helps if you know a little about imovie):
1) Create your playlist in itunes
2) Open imovie and import the tracks
3) Alternate the tracks between the 2 available audio tracks
4) Edit each track fade in and out as necessary by overlapping individual tracks and if necessary usiing the volume adjustment faders in imovie. It takes a little practice but you'll be mixin' like a pro in no time.
5) Export to quicktime. Imovie requires video to export, so instead of video I added a 1 second picture from my iphoto library.
6) I downloaded freeware from versiontracker called "Extract Movie Soundtrack" and ran the program to remove the video from my quicktime file and created a aiff.
7) Import the aiff file into itunes and TAA DAA..you have a playlist with the crossfade you have created and always wanted.
I do hope that Apple includes crossfade in a future update of ipod software.
Goodluck and happy ipodding.
Mike

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