Kill The Gap…Between Songs In iTunes

Tuesday, Apr. 4 2006 | Author: jeremy

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.

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6 Responses for "Kill The Gap…Between Songs In iTunes"

John

April 4th, 2006 at 7:07 pm
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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.
barry

April 7th, 2006 at 10:42 am
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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
A_Frost

August 16th, 2006 at 10:10 am
3

Thanks for a chance to post here ;-) Wanna download some music for 10cents? Welcome 24/7 365.
Steve

December 18th, 2006 at 12:42 pm
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stacy

October 14th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
5

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?
stacy

October 14th, 2009 at 5:34 pm
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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.