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Gaps in between tracks (mp3 Players)

Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2004 6:35 am
by zenabi
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?

Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2004 9:10 am
by John Cartwright
You might want to check when burning your cds or to your mp3 player you can usually set the length between tracks. You can always bring it back to the store and try another, or ask if they know, or even read the documents it comes with

Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2004 2:09 pm
by d_d
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.

Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 7:31 am
by zenabi
Phenom wrote:You might want to check when burning your cds or to your mp3 player you can usually set the length between tracks.
The tracks rip fine and play without any gaps through the SonicStage software.
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.
Thanks for the replies. How about the iPod? I heard that might be gapless, can anyone confirm this?

Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 2:19 pm
by John Cartwright
I know several people with Ipods and have never encountered problems with gaps

Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 5:15 pm
by d_d
The ipod is not gapless according to this
http://www.pretentiousname.com/mp3players/

Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 6:07 pm
by John Cartwright
Note: they are referring to 2nd generation ipods. The newest ipods are 4th generation

Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 6:59 pm
by Deemo
i have a 3rd gen and there is no gap. i would expect 4th gen to not have one either

Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 5:58 am
by zenabi
pretentiousname.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.
Thanks for that page d_d. According to that page only the Rio Karma produces gapless playback. Shame it looks a bit ugly :roll: