<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">As I said, it can play "gapless", but it's quote "gapless," as in, artificial -- potentially inaccurate removal of gaps by an algorithm. In most cases it's not noticeable, but if you're looking to get true gapless playback, in which the player is able to literally take the beginning of one file and butt it right up against the back end of another, without any ill consequences, MP3 is not the format you're looking for.<br>When I say fundamentally unable, that does not mean it can not be "simulated."<br><br>Andrew<br><br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Graham Banting <gbanting@gmail.com><br>To: faxlist@2350.org<br>Sent: Thursday, January 4, 2007 9:41:49 PM<br>Subject: Re: (fax) musicmatch continuous rip<br><br> <style type="text/css">DIV { MARGIN:0px;} </style> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">I call bullshit on that. iTunes version 7.x supports gapless playback just fine.</font></div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px;"> <div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">----- Original Message ----- </div> <div style="background: rgb(228, 228, 228) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>From:</b> <a rel="nofollow" title="andrewdk@sbcglobal.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:andrewdk@sbcglobal.net">Andrew Keyser</a> </div> <div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>To:</b> <a rel="nofollow" title="jimbogreenman@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:jimbogreenman@yahoo.com">Jim Greenman</a> ; <a rel="nofollow" title="faxlist@2350.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:faxlist@2350.org">faxlist@2350.org</a> </div> <div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 04, 2007 7:36 PM</div> <div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>Subject:</b> Re: (fax) musicmatch continuous rip</div> <div><br></div> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;"> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;">Don't use MP3.<br><br>Simple as that... use a program and file format that properly supports "gapless" playback, such as Ogg Vorbis (if you want it compressed like MP3 is) or FLAC (if you want it full quality like WAV is, at roughly half the file size of WAV) for the file format, and EAC for the ripper. At your option, you could use iTunes, if you want to be locked into their proprietary file format kingdom. Ogg Vorbis and FLAC are both free, open source codecs.<br><br>MP3, without any special extensions, is fundamentally unable to play without a gap between two seperate songs and the "remove gap" features of audio players is artificial and may not be entirely accurate (not removing enough of the gap, or removing too much, cutting into "real" audio).<br>The LAME MP3 encoder can encode data about the end of the track in the header so that a program that understands these special instructions can accurately remove any gap, but it's still just a workaround for a flaw in the way MP3 is designed.<br><br>Andrew Keyser<br><br><br> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Jim Greenman <jimbogreenman@yahoo.com><br>To: faxlist@2350.org<br>Sent: Thursday, January 4, 2007 8:01:53 AM<br>Subject: (fax) musicmatch continuous rip<br><br> <div>Whenever I try to record a CD which has continuous music, Musicmatch puts a gap between the songs. </div> <div> </div> <div>Does anyone know how to stop this from happening?</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <p>__________________________________________________<br>Do You Yahoo!?<br>Tired of spam? 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