Gapless in Itunes 7 ?

Just went to see the new features of Itunes 7.0 and one of them was a highly requested one apparently:
Gapless Playback
Live albums, classical works, or any work that sounds best when it’s continuous, now seamlessly transitions from one song to another.
Would that be the same on the Ipod ? Is it working already with our library or do we need to read again all the CD in order to enjoy the gapless ?
Lastly I noticed some threads about a "reset" issue with this new Itunes 7.0 so I take it as wait for a while before downloading it. (am i right)

Lastly I noticed some threads about a "reset" issue
with this new Itunes 7.0 so I take it as wait for a
while before downloading it. (am i right)
GMBL: Yes, there is a problem with the iPod resetting when using podcasts after updating. I don't think anyone's nailed down the exact specifics. Some have suggested that it has to do with the bitrate of the podcasts. I'll be testing this tonight and will post something later.
I'm a heavy podcast user and would not have upgraded if I'd known I would have all these problems. If you are also, I'd recommend watching the forums before making the update to see if/when it's been corrected as it effectively cripples your iPod's ability to play podcasts. If you don't do podcasts, it shouldn't affect you. I have 15GB worth of audio and nearly 10GB worth of videos and have not experienced any trouble with any of it. Only podcasts seem to cause this spontaneous reset.
I know I haven't provided any answers, but hopefully I can help you avoid some of my current frustration with Apple.
Dell Latitude X1 Windows XP Pro

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It is most likely that there is a track in you library that is causing trouble and the trick is to find it and remove it from your library.
Then iTunes should be able to complete the gapless playback calculations and then it won't happen every time you start iTunes.
A way of doing it is to create an alternative library. Un check "Copy to iTunes Music folder when adding to library" in Preferences during the test.
Then start adding tracks to the test library a folder or a few folders at at time until the problem starts. Then go back and try and isolate which track it was.
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I'm trying to get gapless working on my new Ipod (80 gig version) - it's fully up to date with the latest firmware, and the gapless works in Itunes but doesn't work on the Ipod. There is still a small gap between songs (though it's MUCH better than my old 20gig 4th gen Ipod). Is there something I'm not doing right?

Have you marked the tracks as 'Gapless' in iTunes?
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Will the new gapless playback work when a playlist is burned onto a CD or is this just for iTunes play?

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.]]
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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
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THis LARGLY depends on what you want. I mean theres ALOT of really cool neat handy features in 7. THat said tho SOME, NOT ALL BUT SOME people have issues with it. Usually long as your system and windows is up to date and you have things backed up and have scanned and removed malware/adware you should be OK.
I can only talk from experience, but for me I've not had any issues on my old 5-6 year old test machine. I can't say if you will have issues or not.
Again not all, but most posting here with issues about iTUnes 7 I have helped have one of these reasons why there having issues
1) have not updated there system and windows.
2) have malware "Fudging" things up
3) was impatant with the "Gapless scan" itunes does on first setup, cancelled it or forced itunes to shut down and not have a fudged up system because they could not wait.
4) Didn't have there antivirus disabled during install or didn't manually remove itunes and qwuicktime completely before the install (Yes apple doesn't say to do this but in some cases when I helped them clean out itunes and quicktime, then reinstall itunes 7, everything worked fine)
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Ok lets list them here.
iTunes will only display the store window, regardless of what I have selected in the side-bar. I could highlight 'library' or 'videos' and the display will still be the store.
iTunes crashes every ten minutes
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I cannot use the scroll bars anymore
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remove plugins
Restart
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I'm glad it worked for you, but it's not working for me. I followed the steps you outlined, but once the iPod was plugged in, the message changed from "Waiting for iPod" to "More than one iPod is attached. Please attach one iPod at a time to be updated. Eject the other iPods using the Finder and then unplug them."
More than one iPod? I only wish!
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