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The new iTunes 7 and what it means for us
Let me start of by saying our endless emails and requests to apple to have gapless playback has now been answered, today on September 12, 2006. If you havent checkout the new iTunes 7, i suggest you check it out at apple.com .
The new iTunes 7 now supports gapless playbacks! No more 2 second skips on your iPod, no more 80 minute continuously mixed track (but separated tracks with gapless playbacks). This is HUGE for Electronic Dance Music since most of the things we listen to are continuously mixed! Like those livesets, those radio sets, those albums, etc._
I wanted to know what you predict will change in how we listen to music and how it will change "the SCENE". I know there are a lot of you sceners that browse this forum and I hope this post can reach out to you and how you release music. Perhaps ripping albums as single tracks instead of one big mp3 file with a cue.
I want to know what you think about this new milestone in listening to EDM.
Personally, I cant wait for the day we can listen to Armin's A State Of Trance Radio Show as single tracks on my ipod without worying about the 2second skip, continuously for 2 hours. :-)
Could you please explain to me how the ipod eliminates those gaps? I'm a technology nut and love learning about new innovations which in this case involves the mp3 format.
Keep in mind the MP3 format doesn't support gaplessness.
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| Originally posted by starglider Keep in mind the MP3 format doesn't support gaplessness. |
Is it really gapless or does it just crossfade between tracks?
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| Originally posted by flavdave Is it really gapless or does it just crossfade between tracks? |
And by the way, this is not a "milestone" in the way we listen to EDM. The scene does not revolve around iPods.
Yeah, I agree about the "milestone" thing being a little too much...
...but I have to say that it really is a good thing since I know a bunch of EDM lovers that fucking hate having to rip mixed cds as a huge mp3 file...and this will certainly be huge for them
this is the best thing since the phonograph
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| Originally posted by lazy chick this is the best thing since the phonograph |
I read this with great hopes and went immediately to download the new iTunes.
All I can find under the playback options in iTunes is the option to crossfade, with the minimum segment of time being set to 1 second.
Am I missing something? As it stands this new feature is more useless than the very small gap that we used to get, which although annoying, was infinitely better than the mini train wreck we're now exposed to on every track.
I hope someone points out to me that I've missed an important setting......
Jarv
I read this with great hopes and went immediately to download the new iTunes.
All I can find under the playback options in iTunes is the option to crossfade, with the minimum segment of time being set to 1 second.
Am I missing something? As it stands this new feature is more useless than the very small gap that we used to get, which although annoying, was infinitely better than the mini train wreck we're now exposed to on every track.
I hope someone points out to me that I've missed an important setting......
Jarv
gapless playback has been available for quite a while using Rockbox on your ipod...
Just tried it out and it works great. 
It it work on iPod as well, that's even better. Finally no more 2 second gaps between mixed tracks.
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| Originally posted by Jarvmeister I read this with great hopes and went immediately to download the new iTunes. All I can find under the playback options in iTunes is the option to crossfade, with the minimum segment of time being set to 1 second. Am I missing something? As it stands this new feature is more useless than the very small gap that we used to get, which although annoying, was infinitely better than the mini train wreck we're now exposed to on every track. I hope someone points out to me that I've missed an important setting...... Jarv |
Turn the crossfade off and it'll work perfectly smooth.
is there a way i can install itunes and not haveit delete all my tracks upon start? and NEVER delete tracks, and just add
this is why i use yamipod
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| Originally posted by Gauss Just tried it out and it works great. It it work on iPod as well, that's even better. Finally no more 2 second gaps between mixed tracks.Yeah, you're missing something. Turn the crossfade off and it'll work perfectly smooth. |
ooooooh... finally i can add all my mix cds to my ipod. Until now i've just had full length songs on to "avoid" the annoying gap
hey, comment about the "2 second gaps" on people's iPods. 1st, my ipod only had like 1/4-1/2 a second gaps (3rd generation 40 GB), and dont say, "you just dont have that much music on it", because it was completely full (as in I had to delete music to put more on) of just music.
How often do you guys defragment your iPod's harddrive?
Also, rockbox has been able to do this for a while and also, I hate iTunes, because I run on an older system I find it to be a massive RAM whore.
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| Originally posted by Pattink [...] I hate iTunes, because I run on an older system I find it to be a massive RAM whore. |
My Winamp and Creative players have been gapless from day 1.
Going to give it a try, but I found the crossfade thing down to the smallest value in previous versions to be fine, can't imagine they have changed it much at all.
*Stands corrected*
/eidts after about 20 minutes of use
Buggy as, I know it's expected on first release but I'm having issues with processor usage, I mean mines not exactly the worst on the market but the smallest things seem to make songs twitch or jump, from loading up an application to somebody signing in on Msn 
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| Originally posted by 303 gapless playback has been available for quite a while using Rockbox on your ipod... |
Yeah, my Itunes is running really slow as well and I've got a 3ghz PC with 2gb ram :S
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| Originally posted by ronaldishak This is HUGE for Electronic Dance Music since most of the things we listen to are continuously mixed! Like those livesets, those radio sets, those albums, etc._ I wanted to know what you predict will change in how we listen to music and how it will change "the SCENE". I know there are a lot of you sceners that browse this forum and I hope this post can reach out to you and how you release music. Perhaps ripping albums as single tracks instead of one big mp3 file with a cue. I want to know what you think about this new milestone in listening to EDM. Personally, I cant wait for the day we can listen to Armin's A State Of Trance Radio Show as single tracks on my ipod without worying about the 2second skip, continuously for 2 hours. :-) |
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