hi, I just bought an Ipod Shuffle, and the weird thing is, when a song is done playing, instead of going straight to the next song, it has a 3 second silence.
Like a song will play perfectly. But before the next song starts, there is a gap. So to everybody who has an Ipod shuffle, does that happen to you too? Is it a normal thing or is there something wrong with my ipod shuffle?
thanks.
More info, please. Do the audio files also have this gap when you listen to them on your computer? Did you rip them yourself? What format are they in?
When I listen to it on Itunes, they don't have that gap problem. In fact, when it is the last 5 seconds of the song, the next song begins, so it is like they are blended in those five seconds.
And the songs' formats, I think they are in WMA.
They can't be in WMA. iPods can't play WMA.
But your comment about the song blending makes me think that those gaps of silence were there on the original CD, but you're just not used to listening to them because you have "Crossfade playback" turned on in iTunes. Try turning it off: go into the Preferences, click on the Playback button, and uncheck the "Crossfade playback" check box. (At least, that's where the option is on the Mac; might have to poke around a bit in Windows.) Now when you listen to them in iTunes, is the same gap there?
iPods don't support the crossfade feature that iTunes does.
I checked. They are in MPEG audio format. But you know, those gaps in the IPods, like they are not originally in the song. Because some songs they end arupurtly (sp?), and so there will be music playing till the last second. And I know what you are talking about in the crossfade playback.
So are you saying Ipod shuffle just have those gaps? That they are normal?
Quoting from the link already posted by >>2:
>iPod
>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.
Yes, one of the long-running flaws the iPod line is that they all insert a gap between songs, even if the gap wasn't there on the original CD. However, the gap can be measured in milliseconds; it's not a three-second silence, and more a momentary annoyance than a fatal flaw in the hardware design as the link in >>2 seems to make it out to be.
There's a way around it, if you're ripping your own CDs, but it's inelegant; you basically tell the iPod to rip the contiguous songs as one large song file. This makes it impossible to "next track" through the contiguous tracks. But it works, and I've done it for a couple of non-stop dance music CDs I have. Also, Apple themselves sell songs that shouldn't have a gap on the iTunes Music Store... It really is a flaw they should have fixed a long time ago. (The hardware just needs to be smart enough to start loading the next song into memory before the current song has finished playing.)
So does this address your problem? I'm still confused by the "three-second gap" thing... Was I right in assuming you just weren't used to hearing the original on-CD gap because of the crossfade playback feature?
>you basically tell iTunes to rip the contiguous songs
fixed
I don't know about the contiguous tracks thing, the only thing I do know is that the songs, like there is just this break where there shouldn't.
And it is definitely longer than several millseconds. I was just freaking out if it was defective or not, is all.
It's like 3 to 5 seconds though, so it's not that short as your Ipod seems to have.
Ugh, I hate that though. When dealing with MP3's it's okay I guess, but it just annoys me to hell that it pretends that it can be used to burn a decent backup copy of your CD, which it can't.
When I make a backup copy, I want it to be an exact copy, not an approximation.
Of course, that's a different use entirely than having MP3's for your iPod, or for iTunes itself.
>>11: Not exactly sure what that has to do with the price of tea in China, but iTunes can rip to a lossless codec as well as uncompressed AIFF and WAV, and can be set to not put a gap between songs when burning (Preferences, Advanced, Burning).
(In case it's not clear, it's the iPod hardware that's causing the gap, not the way the files are encoded.)
Addendum: But if you just want to burn an exact copy of a CD, iTunes (or any ripper) wouldn't be the first tool I'd go for. I'd just make a disk image of the CD, then burn the image. That could be done without leaving good ol' Disk Utility.