iPod Dance Mixes

[wanty1974]

Having at last joined the iPod generation, I have one question about this fabulous piece of kit which Apple's website doesn't answer.

If you have an album of say, mixed hardcore trance, can you play it back without gaps between tracks?

[rsvmilly]

Short answer - No.


(I'm 99% sure about that but wait to be corrected)

[Plotloss]

If you record the entire album as one MP3 then yes, otherwise no...

[sybaseian]

rsvmilly said:

Short answer - No. (I'm 99% sure about that but wait to be corrected)

short answer - Yes....

Adding songs from CDs to your library
You can import songs from your CDs into your iTunes library. Imported songs are encoded and stored on your hard disk so that you can listen to them without having the original CD. The default encoding format is AAC.


For the best performance and results, use the computer's internal CD or DVD drive to import songs.

Insert an audio CD into your computer. After a moment, the songs on the CD are listed in the iTunes window.
Click to remove the checkmark next to any songs you don't want to import.
To remove the gap of silence that normally occurs between songs, make sure the songs on the CD are sorted by track number in ascending order (click the top of the first column so that it's blue and you see a triangle that points up), then select two or more adjacent songs and choose Advanced > Join CD Tracks.

iTunes imports any joined songs as one track. To change back to importing the songs separately, select the joined songs and choose Advanced > Unjoin CD Tracks.

To add the selected songs to your library, click the Import button in the upper-right corner of the iTunes window.

The display area at the top of the iTunes window shows how much time it will take to import each song. To cancel importing, click the small X next to the progress bar.

When the songs are finished importing, click the Eject symbol to the right of the CD in the playlist, or click the Eject Disk button in the lower-right corner of the iTunes window.

[rsvmilly]

Firstly, that wasn't a short answer

Secondly, that makes the CD into one enormous track; you can't skip tracks.

It is the iPod which causes the gaps;

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