How to play continuous music from mixed albums on itunes and ipod?

I have imported an album to iTunes and all the songs are mixed and you're supposed to listen to them continuously withouth having a pause between songs.

I tried to set up the iTunes preferences to wait "0" seconds between songs but it still waits like 1 or 2 seconds after a song is finished and then starts playing the next one.

Does anybody know what can i do to play my songs continuously?

Hp Windows XP

Posted on Aug 9, 2006 7:04 PM

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Aug 9, 2006 7:27 PM in response to Dan14er

This is actually impossible.

There are folders "F00," "F01," and such. One song maybe in one folder, but the next song may be in a different folder.

At least that's how I think it works. Calling Apple Employees!

Laptop: IBM R40 - Desktop: Unknown Windows XP Owns an iPod, Palm Z22. Please mark the question answered if this worked.

Aug 10, 2006 12:48 AM in response to Chris CA

I didn't meant by saying "mixed" like "SHUFFLE MIXED" but like "DJ MIXED"...

and i have the Fade effect on "0" already....

Do you know where can i sugest apple for it on next iTunes update?? Is there a link to customer service or anything like that??

Cause most of my cd's are continuous from song to song and it sounds bad and it's pretty unconfortable to listen to them having to stop between each song.

Hp Windows XP

Aug 21, 2006 11:19 AM in response to Dan14er

For gapless playback on Windows, it's as easy as foobar2000.

It's a pity that iTunes doesn't play back albums as one would expect, and I've communicated with Apple about this in a number of ways over the years, as have countless other users. I think the thing to keep in mind is that even if Apple corrected the inherent problems in iTunes and iPod, true gapless playback could still not be achieved except for files ripped directly from audio CDs in a gapless and lossless format (AIFF, WAV, Apple Lossless), or with files encoded using LAME or Nero's AAC encoder. This also means that every single album ever sold on the iTMS will never have the possibility of playing back without encoder-introduced gaps between tracks. Somehow I think it would go over like a lead balloon if Apple put out a huge press release stating that iTunes and iPod were now gapless playback-compliant, with the exception of any music bought from the iTMS or encoded with iTunes' MP3 and AAC encoders (in other words, pretty much anything in a given user's iTunes library). Well, I'd still be happy to hear the news, as I use LAME and Nero AAC 🙂

I finally bought my first iPod the other day, and knew what to expect from it. I've spent a vast amount of time preparing my music for gapless playback on the iPod, and I have to say it was a chore. My best friends along the way were PlexTools Professional, foobar2000 + foo cuesheetcreator, Nero Digital Audio Reference Quality MPEG-4 & 3GPP Audio Codec, my PowerMac G4, cuetools, and AudioBinder.

So, now I've got perfect gapless playback on my new iPod and in iTunes.

What I'm waiting for at this point is for <a href="http://music.morbo.org/wiki/dop:start"foo_dop</a> to make some more progress reading Nero chapters in MP4/M4A album images.

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