When will the iTunes encoding bug get fixed?

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danno
I'm really getting fed up with the gaps that iTunes puts at the beginning and end of cd tracks that it imports.

Surely I'm not the only person who has this beef with iTunes? How long has iTunes 3.0.1 been out for now?
 
I've never heard that, all my live tracks all flow one into the next, no gaps. Try turning crossfade playback on & setting it to 0, as if that's off it might have gaps.
 
Go into the advanced settings for encoding. It is possible to set the desired gap, I think. (going from memory here)

I know I have no gap on my iTunes
 
I have no gaps AT HEARING. AT BURNING, I still have a gap EVEN if iTunes is set to let zero space between tracks.

Maybe that's my (internal) burner. Maybe not.
 
That's quite odd. Even if the "gap between songs" setting in the Burning section of iTunes' prefs is set to 0? Weird. Never had that happen.
 
We're all ears. Please explain the gaps you've got. I always thought songs were supposed to be separated by gaps. Even on LPs, there were always small gaps between songs. You had to have them to put the needle down in the right spot.
 
I'll sum it up:

Even when gaps are set to zero,
Even with a 2x burn,
Whatever you do,

iTunes leaves, at burning, a very small gap that impeaches mixes to sound good on CD.

For example, if you burn Carl Cox "F.A.C.T. volume One" to the two CDs it deserves, you will notice that, when changing tracks, at hearing, you can hear the gap, which you cannot on the original CD.

That may be linked to the burner you use. I burn with an internal burner, which are not the best burners around.
 
if you want that millisecond gap gon you've got to use Roxio Jam. it's not an iTunes bug, it's just how burning works. every piece of burning software does this. Roxio Jam remedies this by adding the tracks together as one track then track-splitting them on burn.
 
My problem is that when I rip a mix cd - either a commercial one, or one I've recorded myself, and put track regions in with Peak, and then burned with Jam, the cd rips, but gaps appear at the beginning OR end of the mp3 files. This means there is a slight pause during playback. I could set the tracks to start playing 1 or 2 seconds into the track, but this is most annoying to my DJ ears. iTunes can play the CD's fine, and they play on real cd players.

One way of getting around this is to join the tracks, but then I just have one 80 minute file.

I'm not wanting to burn with iTunes, just listen to the mixes while I work. I still don't see how Jam would actually remove silence at the begining and end of audio files, although, it will add silence. Also, after examining the ripped audio files in Peak, the gaps are not of a consistent size.

Gaps juring track changes spoil the flow of the music, therefore defeating the object of having it playing.

I posted about this a while ago, and got responses from people who seemed to be aware of this, but I don't seem to be able to find that post now.

THis isn't exclusive to one computer - all four I've tried it on do the same. I'm sure it didn't happen on iTunes 2 on OS9 though......
 
I've heard that some burner brands are better at having no gaps than others. Plextor and Yamaha are good, I hear.
 
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