win77
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Q: iTunes: how put a 2 second gap between songs?

There used to be a way to put a 2 second pause between songs in iTunes, so that when playing from an iPod or iPhone in the car one song didn't start *instantly* as soon as the previous song ended.  Does anyone know of ANY way to accomplish this in the current iterations of iTunes on both OS and iOS?  Thanks for any help.

Posted on Oct 13, 2016 2:44 PM

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Q: iTunes: how put a 2 second gap between songs?

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  • by Limnos,

    Limnos Limnos Oct 13, 2016 2:51 PM in response to win77
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    Oct 13, 2016 2:51 PM in response to win77

    Typically a gap is built into tracks as they are ripped, or in ones that are downloaded.  The only way I can think to do so is to either manually add silence at the ends by using an audio editor, or have a 2 second silence track play between each regular track.

  • by win77,

    win77 win77 Oct 13, 2016 7:08 PM in response to Limnos
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    Oct 13, 2016 7:08 PM in response to Limnos

    HI...thanks.  Some songs do have a gap at the end, but many others seem not to.  To manually put in a silence track for over 1,000 songs would be way too much work.  But thanks for the suggestion.  I can't imagine why Apple would have gotten rid of this as an option, but they seem to get rid of many things that worked by either hiding them or disappearing them altogether.

  • by Limnos,

    Limnos Limnos Oct 13, 2016 8:17 PM in response to win77
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    Oct 13, 2016 8:17 PM in response to win77

    I use iTunes 7.5 and there is no option to set a gap in playback. There is crossfade which does the opposite if you engage it.  I also see no option to add silence in iTunes when ripping.  I own no mobile devices so I can't check there but unless they introduced something for a few versions and then removed it again you may be mistaken as to it being a feature.

     

    I normally use XLD to rip and I believe having silences is configurable.

     

    The thing that was in iTunes was user-set gapless playback.  http://www.mcelhearn.com/what-is-the-gapless-playback-tag-in-itunes-for/   Sept 2016 - https://discussions.apple.com/message/30721787#message30721787 - "That option did not make an album gapless.  The ONLY thing that tag did was to not cross fade songs if cross fade and shuffle was enabled and consecutive songs from a gapless album were played."  So for your purposes it didn't do anything to add a gap, only not remove it, and then only if you had a no-gap album not set as gapless (I think that confuses even me ).