Continuous play between songs without a pause between tracks

One other option that I've begun using to separate tracks in a cd with songs that flow from one to the next (Dream Theater anyone?) yet retain the artists vision is to use Apple's Chapter Tool and use this in conjunction with a tool like Scriptbuilder's . "Podcastenhancer". (There are other utilities but this is the one I personally use.)

What this does is allow you to rip the cd with all tracks joined and then add "Chapters" to the file to indicate where each track should start. Created for use in building podcasts (like the iTunes New Music Tuesday podcast) where you want the content broken up, the combination of these tools will help you separate your songs and add album artwork at the same time. What you end up with is one long continuous song file with the ability to jump from track to track on your iPod and select the appropriate "song" in iTunes from the chapter list that appears when the file is played.

iMac 800 Mhz G4/iPod Photo 40GB Mac OS X (10.4.4) http://www.itunesregistry.com/user/user/Jamvan

This is something I enquired about not so long ago - it was pointed out that this is one feature of the iPod many dislike - there is nothing you can do other than follow the advice I was given.

"Currently the only way to eliminate the gap between songs is to import the cd as one track. You do this by using the “join cd tracks” option in the advanced menu of iTunes.

Make sure the tracks are in their correct order, and highlight those you wish to join.

No gaps, but the downside is that you will of course lose the ability to navigate between tracks, and the song info is also lost. The iPod will display the cd title in the song field in the “now playing” screen . You’ll also have one large file instead of a number of smaller ones."

I hope the above helps.

There should be a forthcoming solution with ChapterTool so that you can navigate to individual songs via chapter markers the same way you can for enhanced podcasts like iTunes' "New Music Tuesday". At present there is only a command-line beta version that works for Macs, but the instructions indicate that a Windows version will be supported. This would give you continous play (through the joined file) and the ability to navigate to individual songs. You would not be able to shuffle play those songs, however.

To join tracks, you may have to click onto the title bar of the first column in the main iTunes menu (the blank one, where track numbers are displayed) so that it turns blue, in order for the "join tracks" option to appear ungrayed in the advanced menu.

12 PowerBook G4, 1.33 GHz Mac OS X (10.3.9)

I would like to credit Jeff Bryan for the "quoted" info!