Does gapless playback relate to burned CD's as well?

Question

Will the new gapless playback work when a playlist is burned onto a CD or is this just for iTunes play?

Answer 1

I'd like to add my own experience here ... I've had relatively few problems with iTunes 7, unlike many of the posters to these groups, so I don't know how many may find this useful.
Here's what I've learned about burning gapless CDs in iTunes 7:
First, a bit of background: I've never bought music from iTMS - all my music is from CDs. And, my preferred audio format is MP3/320kbps (call me fussy, but I can hear the difference
Now that I've upgraded to iTunes 7, music that I had ripped using iTunes v6 plays back "gaplessly" in iTunes 7. Burning these tracks back to CD, I get gapless audio CDs (Dark Side of the Moon as it was meant to be heard, thank you, Apple .
Music that I had previously ripped using a LAME encoder also plays back gaplessly in iTunes 7, too, but when I burn these tracks to a CD, there's still that *&^% gap, even when I set the "gap between songs" to none.
When I select the LAME-encoded tracks and select "Convert selection to MP3" from the "Advanced" menu (this recodes the LAME mp3s as iTunes mp3s), and burn the resulting tracks back to disc, the result is a gapless CD.
[[If you see a "Convert selection to AAC" or other non-MP3 menu item, go to iTunes preferences, click the advanced icon, and then click "Burning". The music format you have selected here is the one that appears on the "Convert selection to ..." menu item.]]
I have used this only with MP3s ... don't know how it would work with AACs or other formats.
credits: I've lost track of the original article, but the idea of reconverting MP3s in iTunes came from the author of that post. Thank you, whoever you are
Your milage may vary ... good luck,
jbhouston
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