How to turn off "determing gapless playback information" feature?

it continually locks up itunes and forces me to CTRLALTDelete itunes. i notice that this "feature" starts itself again sometime even after i've stopped it. grrr. anyone know how i can disable it?

You may want to try SET DEFINE OFF
- CJ
(Note to old timers : SET SCAN has been listed in the obsolete command section of the manual for a very long time - avoid using it in case it disappears!)

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I am having a big problem with itunes, since my main drive crash with all my music, i had was to trash my library and restart from what every music I can find on my other drives.
Problems problems....
1. Adding music itunes will crash
2. Most time it will crash while trying to determing gapless playback information
3. and just at startup it will crash
I have repaired permissions and all the fancy stuff but still problem, now apple has updated to 8 and the problem was never fixed any ideas anyone????

Hi,
Try deleting the iTunes preference file. /Users/YourName/Library/Preferences. Open the Preferences folder, locate this file: com.apple.iTunes.plist drag that file to the Trash, empty the Trash and reboot. You will have to reset your iTunes preferences, but this is the only way to find out if the file is corrupted and considering you are experiencing so many crashes... that might be the culprit.
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Determine Gapless Playback Information"

I use Itunes ,,wha does it mean when it running "Determine Gapless Playback Information" How do I turn off? or what it this?

CasperGemini wrote:
Are you working with the gapless option in hopes of resolving the issue with the tracks cutting out early during playback?
Yes -- in upgrading the bitrate on these tracks, I merely replaced the old file in my storage device with a new one with the same title (to preserve data), and this switch seems to give iTunes ****. If you check the link in my original post, a few us of seem to think iTunes & iPods use bitrate (vs. track time) to calculate playback, which is why the new, higher bitrate tracks are being snipped early when playing them back on my iPod. Like I said, whatever that "determining gapless playback information" thing actually does in iTunes, it fixes this issue.....which is why I'd like to manually command my library to re-determine this info...

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Hi, basically ive had enough of gapless playback information so have decided to post another topic about it. The last year or so its been very frustrating. Every time i open itunes, unless i manage to click the x button very quickly to stop the gapless playback function itunes freezes at around number 8 or so. After this if i dont click the x button in time my finder freezes, forcing me to restart my computer. This has happened to me every day, probably at least three times.
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Pleeeassseeee help. Thanks

Select all music,
Get info
Dismiss warning dialogue
Click "Options"
Click Gapless Album
Select no from dropdown menu
This option does only one thing.
If you have *Cross Fade* playback enabled in iTunes prefs and you play a gapless album followed by the next song on that same gapless album, the songs will not cross fade.
iTunes will always analyze songs for gapless when added to iTunes.
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2) I have dumped my iTunes library and created an entirely new one from scratch (holding the Shift key when starting iTunes to create a new library in a new location).
3) I have completely uninstalled and reinstalled iTunes.
4) I have tried this on another computer and found that I experience the exact same problem on exactly the same songs on both Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit and Windows XP Professional 32-bit.
5) I have submitted feedback to Apple (nearly an exact copy of the first 2 paragraphs you see above).
Note that I cannot re-rip these songs because I received them as part of a bonus package for a Sony PlayStation 3 video game (God of War 3, Collector's Edition). The MP3 files I have of these songs are the only ones I'll ever have access to. Also note that there is nothing obviously wrong with the song files because they play fine and all metadata appears to be valid.
How do I instruct iTunes to forever ignore Gapless Playback Information on these troubled songs, to NEVER scan them again, while keeping them in my iTunes library? Thank you for your attention on this matter.
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Okay. Every single time I open iTunes, I get thing thing at the top saying that iTunes is "Determining Gapless Playback Information" for 4 songs that are not in my library. I know this for certain. How on Earth to do I stop this. It is quite annoying.
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