selection and number of samples

[booboo_US]

Thank you DVDDoug. After trying everything that I could for two days, I came to the conclusion that even though the task seems relatively easy, the feature that I am looking at is not possible.

My car stereo only plays MP3 and regular CDA files. CDA is good and the tracks play continuously gapless, but each CD can only be 80 minutes. So compacting several CD's into one would not work. For a while I thought that Foobar has trick to fit more than 80 minutes on a CD, but I was wrong.

On the other hand, MP3 is good in the sense that I can fit many albums on a single CD, but it is horrible for gapless music such as live music. As the song goes from one track to the next, the player has to read the new file, and there is a rather long pause. So there is no flow.

I am just amazed that with the technology that we have, this simple task cannot be done. Oh well! Finally, I have decided rather than burn CD's, to put all the files on my iphone and go in that direction. Of course, I have not tried this yet, but from what I read on the web, itunes should produce gapless music. So, hopefully this will work. I would like to thank all of your for all your help and suggestions. I guess I will close this thread.

[Gale Andrews]

If your player doesn't support gapless MP3 playbqack, maybe it supports AAC or WMA. As far as I know, these formats don't suffer from the gap problem.

AAC and WMA (at least the lossy versions) have a similar but less extreme lead in at the start.

iTunes should detect and not play the gaps in the files, on an iPhone or on a Windows or Mac computer.



Gale