For those of you how use iTunes day in and day out to listen to music, you have undoubtedly come up against a set of live tracks that may flow into each other, only to have them chopped up by the gap that iTunes inserts between each song.
Here is a solution to that. It my be common knowledge, but was news to me.
So, open up your iTunes Preferences and go to the “Playback” tab, where you can set a “Crossfade playback” of “0.” This effectively negates the blank spot by adding an almost imperceptible crossfade between songs. It’s not perfect, but it’s a damn sight better than the big blank spot.
So simple. Why didn’t I think of that.
This works decently well, but if I’m going to listen to a long DJ mix that has been tracked out I’ll load it up in Winamp. You can go in to the DirectAudio playback options and turn all the buffers up to a couple seconds (thousands of milliseconds in the config), which will eat up more memory but also give you perfect gapless playback.
If you are importing from CD, iTunes has the “Join CD Tracks” command in the Advanced menu, which allows importing of multiple tracks as one. More here: http://playlistmag.com/features/2005/03/classicalipod/index.php
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This no longer works. In its infinite nanny wisdom, Apple has altered iTunes so that the minimum crossfade time is a long full second. Why do they keep breaking what need not be fixed?
Well, with a little more research, it turns out you can avoid gaps by designating songs as being part of a “gapless album.” Unfortunately, I don’t see a way of making this the default. Please somebody correct me if there is a way. At the moment, the only way I can see to do it is to select all songs in a playlist, do a “get info,” assure the warning box that pops up that yes, you really do want to get info for multiple items, then under the “options” tab, select “part of a gapless album” at the bottom. Yeeeeesh.