Comments on: Gapless Playback - the Funnest [sic] Thing Ever? http://www.plasticstare.com/plains/2006/09/13/gapless-playback-the-funnest-sic-thing-ever/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:24:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: ryan http://www.plasticstare.com/plains/2006/09/13/gapless-playback-the-funnest-sic-thing-ever/#comment-372 ryan Sun, 29 Oct 2006 17:52:14 +0000 http://www.plasticstare.com/plains/2006/09/13/gapless-playback-the-funnest-sic-thing-ever/#comment-372 sad to say it, but you may have to nuke your library and re-add the tracks...of course, that's the last ditch effort... sad to say it, but you may have to nuke your library and re-add the tracks…of course, that’s the last ditch effort…

]]> By: paul calvert http://www.plasticstare.com/plains/2006/09/13/gapless-playback-the-funnest-sic-thing-ever/#comment-371 paul calvert Sun, 29 Oct 2006 13:14:29 +0000 http://www.plasticstare.com/plains/2006/09/13/gapless-playback-the-funnest-sic-thing-ever/#comment-371 yeah in response to the first comment, i have exactly the same issue, i cant open itunes (it literally crashes to the spinning wheel of death about 3 seconds into determing the gapless info malarky) i have tried to install old versions of itunes, which dont work, and i am unable to delete itunes 7 because it states that itunes help is running, its a nighmare, i cant play any music, and i cant delete or intall any other itunes, its great because i have just bought a new ipod and am unable to use it all if anyone knows of anything i can do it would be of a great help cheers yeah in response to the first comment, i have exactly the same issue, i cant open itunes (it literally crashes to the spinning wheel of death about 3 seconds into determing the gapless info malarky) i have tried to install old versions of itunes, which dont work, and i am unable to delete itunes 7 because it states that itunes help is running, its a nighmare, i cant play any music, and i cant delete or intall any other itunes, its great because i have just bought a new ipod and am unable to use it all
if anyone knows of anything i can do it would be of a great help
cheers

]]> By: ryan http://www.plasticstare.com/plains/2006/09/13/gapless-playback-the-funnest-sic-thing-ever/#comment-362 ryan Fri, 20 Oct 2006 18:32:06 +0000 http://www.plasticstare.com/plains/2006/09/13/gapless-playback-the-funnest-sic-thing-ever/#comment-362 Looks like a common gripe from what I can tell. That was part of the problem when I first ran it as well, although it wasn't over a network. The weird thing is, there is now a setting in the track information that allows you to specify it as a gapless playback album or not, but there is no way of just telling iTunes *not* to assume that when you upgrade that you want the feature.I generally like the effect of the feature when you get it working, but it's a pretty painful upgrade. Seems to me that the whole way that libraries are managed needs to be addressed - xml is great, but perhaps an iTunes "database" rather than a iTunes [XML] library would be better suited. Looks like a common gripe from what I can tell. That was part of the problem when I first ran it as well, although it wasn’t over a network. The weird thing is, there is now a setting in the track information that allows you to specify it as a gapless playback album or not, but there is no way of just telling iTunes *not* to assume that when you upgrade that you want the feature.I generally like the effect of the feature when you get it working, but it’s a pretty painful upgrade. Seems to me that the whole way that libraries are managed needs to be addressed - xml is great, but perhaps an iTunes “database” rather than a iTunes [XML] library would be better suited.

]]> By: James DeLucia http://www.plasticstare.com/plains/2006/09/13/gapless-playback-the-funnest-sic-thing-ever/#comment-361 James DeLucia Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:01:23 +0000 http://www.plasticstare.com/plains/2006/09/13/gapless-playback-the-funnest-sic-thing-ever/#comment-361 I have 47000 songs from 3500 CDs ripped by me and placed on a 500GB drive. All rips are of the highest quality VBR rip. The Music drive in question is a network drive so that the people in my home can access and use it as they desire. The problem lies within the collection of gapless playback info from itunes 7. It will take days to collect this information for just one computer let alone many computers or user profiles. This propogation delay is primarily because it is on the network, but alas we live in a networked world. What were the developers thinking. You would think that the developers would have considered all possible sources of music data, ie; local, usb, network, etc... At least give us an option to shut this shit off!!!!!!! I certainly cannot use this product because of this limitation. If anyone has any clue as to shut this off i would appreciate this. i have tried the 1 second crossfading.. it does not work!!! Regards, james james@tridelsolutions.com I have 47000 songs from 3500 CDs ripped by me and placed on a 500GB drive. All rips are of the highest quality VBR rip. The Music drive in question is a network drive so that the people in my home can access and use it as they desire. The problem lies within the collection of gapless playback info from itunes 7. It will take days to collect this information for just one computer let alone many computers or user profiles. This propogation delay is primarily because it is on the network, but alas we live in a networked world. What were the developers thinking. You would think that the developers would have considered all possible sources of music data, ie; local, usb, network, etc… At least give us an option to shut this shit off!!!!!!!
I certainly cannot use this product because of this limitation. If anyone has any clue as to shut this off i would appreciate this. i have tried the 1 second crossfading.. it does not work!!!

Regards,

james
james@tridelsolutions.com

]]> By: Meredit http://www.plasticstare.com/plains/2006/09/13/gapless-playback-the-funnest-sic-thing-ever/#comment-357 Meredit Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:06:20 +0000 http://www.plasticstare.com/plains/2006/09/13/gapless-playback-the-funnest-sic-thing-ever/#comment-357 My problemis I'd like to TURN OFF the "determining gapless playback info" on iTunes, but there doesn't seem to be that option? I THINK I have a couple bad blocks on my hard drive, and iTunes will chug along fine for a few hundred songs and then just spin its wheels forever, and I have to do a hard reboot to get my Mac back. Meanwhile, I can't go back to a previous version of iTunes, because it reports that the library can't be read because it was created by a newer version of iTunes. Talk about a rock and a hard place… Anybody have any suggestions? My problemis I’d like to TURN OFF the “determining gapless playback info” on iTunes, but there doesn’t seem to be that option?

I THINK I have a couple bad blocks on my hard drive, and iTunes will chug along fine for a few hundred songs and then just spin its wheels forever, and I have to do a hard reboot to get my Mac back. Meanwhile, I can’t go back to a previous version of iTunes, because it reports that the library can’t be read because it was created by a newer version of iTunes.

Talk about a rock and a hard place… Anybody have any suggestions?

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