Gaps in between tracks (mp3 Players)
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Gaps in between tracks (mp3 Players)
I recently got myself a Sony VAIO Pocket music player and although it looks sublime, there are fundamental flaws with the software.
One major gripe is the time it takes to change tracks, it can take up to 5 seconds! Now a lot of the albums in my CD collection contain songs that span over more than one track and having even half-a-second gap in between tracks is unacceptable (Prog fans will understand!).
If anyone has the Sony NW-HD1 - does it have the same problem?
What other mp3 players produce no gaps in between tracks?
One major gripe is the time it takes to change tracks, it can take up to 5 seconds! Now a lot of the albums in my CD collection contain songs that span over more than one track and having even half-a-second gap in between tracks is unacceptable (Prog fans will understand!).
If anyone has the Sony NW-HD1 - does it have the same problem?
What other mp3 players produce no gaps in between tracks?
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The tracks rip fine and play without any gaps through the SonicStage software.Phenom wrote:You might want to check when burning your cds or to your mp3 player you can usually set the length between tracks.
Thanks for the replies. How about the iPod? I heard that might be gapless, can anyone confirm this?d_d wrote:The only gapless dap I know of is the Rio Karma. There may be another couple but most hard disk players will have the gaps.
Pretty much the only thing you can do is to rip the cd as one massive track.
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The ipod is not gapless according to this
http://www.pretentiousname.com/mp3players/
http://www.pretentiousname.com/mp3players/
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Thanks for that page d_d. According to that page only the Rio Karma produces gapless playback. Shame it looks a bit uglypretentiousname.com wrote:In case you haven't got the message already, the iPod, the iPod Mini and even the very latest 4th generation iPods with fancy wheel on the front and oh-so-improved (hah!) battery life cannot play gapless music to save their fashion-victim behinds.