![]() ![]() It's a pain, to be sure, especially if it's a lot of tracks, but if you really want an album to play without Crossfade, this is what we're all stuck with now. Just open up the '~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Library.xml' file in a good text editor, search for the album you wish to make gapless, and insert this line in the entry for each song between the sample rate and the artwork count. It's probably just a coincidence that this began after Steve was gone. I'm not sure why, but Apple seems to want to make iTunes more difficult to use with each new iteration. I knew Apple removed this useful setting in iTunes 11, and was disappointed to see it still hadn't been replaced in iTunes 12. I recently imported a group of files, (crank calls), which I wanted to play back gapless. xml file, but I searched mine, and albums which are supposed to be marked "gapless" are, and others aren't. If you can provide more details of what you're trying to achieve and the specific album that you want to play then further advice may be possible. When playing tracks from different albums, or out of the original album sequence (via a playlist and/or using Shuffle), and with crossfade disabled, some users find the lack of a gap between tracks disconcerting - the applet that Limnos's post refers to will add gaps in such cases for the case of playlists, introduction of short "silence" tracks between songs may also be a solution. ![]() I.e., every single track has this set to true, but finding something different would be interesting. In my case there are no instances where this is: Of course it is also possible that your library may differ from mine and contain albums that have the "gapless" property unset - if you load your iTunes Library.xml file into a suitable editor you can search for: Without knowledge of the source of the music concerned its difficult to say why this should be the case, though there is one specific scenario where this can occur - where the files in iTunes are the result of import from a CD-R copy of an album that's been burned with gaps between tracks (some older CD burning s/w has this as a default setting). I would assume that such gaps are not the result of any iTunes process but are the result of short silences at the end of each track. Albums that should play continuously (e.g., "live" albums, those with segues between songs) that play back incorrectly, i.e., with an audible gap between songs.though I'm not sure I've seen this appear in any recent releases. As far as I can tell from analysis of the iTunes Library.xml file all albums are now classified as "gapless" (at least in my library with 5000+ albums) - though I'm not sure that this is an automatic setting as I have seen a "Determining gapless playback information" message during some imports. The ability to set this property was removed in iTunes 12.0. Rather, it works/worked in conjunction with the crossfade function, such that even if the latter is enabled crossfading is not applied between consecutive tracks from an album that's classified as "gapless". The "gapless playback" was always something of a misnomer, since it never added or suppressed gaps between tracks. ![]()
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