Re: Gaps between tunes

Nope, the song-gap thing is a common complaint which hasn't been fixed. I've
been hoping that Apple might have released a new update at some stage to
take care of that - certain albums are mixed together in a fashion that
makes song gaps quite annoying as well.

Playing a big mp3 file shouldn't be too much of a concern though - the iPod
will (should) only spin up the hard drive to cache the data when it needs
to. So if you start playing a 90mb MP3 file, the drive will spin up, buffer
the first 32mb, then stop and wait until the buffer is almost empty until it
caches the next chunk. I have a bunch of 80 minute mixes on my iPod that
have never noticeably decreased battery life. Then again, I could be talking
a load of junk - can somebody confirm whether the above is true?

Cheers

[ Brendan ] | [e] brendan@xxxxxxxxxx
[p] 0402 993 798 [w] www.sektah.com


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> Anyone know if its possible to eliminate the song gaps between
> tracks on an
> IPOD? I listen to live music and the shows are usually broken up
> into song
> tracks, and the song gaps are quite regretable (and with a 20 minute
> buffer, quite avoidable too, I suppose). The alternative is to
> combine them
> into one 90+ minute mp3 file and the word is that playing very long mp3
> files increases battery consumption (again despite the massive 20 minute
> skip buffer).
>   Anyone want to venture a guess as whether this might no longer be the
> case with the new power management in firmware 1.2.6 ?
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