iPod How to fix gaps between songs?

[ltsulu]

I have I-Tunes 4.8 and Toast Titanium. Is there any way to make two songs that are listed as two separate tracks not have a gap between them on playback when I burn a CD? The songs have no gap between them on the original CD when I play them, but there is a huge gap on my back-up CD.
(Example: "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" has a gap before "With A Little Help From My Friends", but the songs are continuous when played on the originak CD).

 

[Phat_Pat]

Under iTunes prefs, under burning, choose no gap.

 

[ltsulu]

Already changed gap to "none" The songs in question are split, but should be continuous upon playback and are not.

 

[LethalWolfe]

The only work around I know of is you can "join" the songs together in iTunes (I forget how), but then it will just be seen as 1 track. The "fix" is as irritating as the problem.


Lethal

 

[Nickygoat]

As far as I'm aware there is no solution to this - at least not a perfect one. The best is as LethalWolfe said - join the tracks. This means, however, that you can't skip tracks the same way you can on a CD. This is a problem that affects all MP3 files but I don't know why or how to solve it. iTunes 5?
Bugs the s*** out of me anyway

 

[kugino]

As far as I'm aware there is no solution to this - at least not a perfect one. The best is as LethalWolfe said - join the tracks. This means, however, that you can't skip tracks the same way you can on a CD. This is a problem that affects all MP3 files but I don't know why or how to solve it. iTunes 5?
Bugs the s*** out of me anyway

yeah, such is the biggest fault in itunes/ipod. gapless playback is a MUST and has to be included in the next ipod/itunes update. just not acceptable.

 

[ltsulu]

Thank you for your responses!

 

[mad jew]

If you've got Garageband, you could try mashing them together into one track.

 

[mim]

Already changed gap to "none" The songs in question are split, but should be continuous upon playback and are not.

I've seen this problem when ripping a CD that had been burnt from someone else's library - the gap would actually be added to the track.

A sound editor (try http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ ) will let you trim the end off the mp3's so that there is no 'empty space'. I've also seen some editing software that can do this by changing the end-point marker of the mp3 file...can't remember names sorry.

 

[Yvan256]

[...] I've also seen some editing software that can do this by changing the end-point marker of the mp3 file...can't remember names sorry.

You can already change the starting/ending points of a track via iTunes itself:
File -> Get Info -> Options tab -> Start Time, Stop Time