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  • sasserwazr

    • May 2004
    • 2

    MP3 Gap

    I download a lot of .shn and .flac files of live concerts. I then convert them to mp3 so I can play them on my iPod. I notice a fraction of a second sound gap between songs and it's really annoying especially for segues. How do I eliminate the gap so that playing from one song to the next is seamless?
  • ChristinaS
    dBpoweramp Guru

    • Apr 2004
    • 4097

    #2
    Re: MP3 Gap

    Originally posted by sasserwazr
    I download a lot of .shn and .flac files of live concerts. I then convert them to mp3 so I can play them on my iPod. I notice a fraction of a second sound gap between songs and it's really annoying especially for segues. How do I eliminate the gap so that playing from one song to the next is seamless?
    A fraction of a second may just be the little delay the machine needs to reposition itself on another track, unelss there's a parameter somewhere that actually controls that.

    You could convert to wav first each separate sound file, then use a wav editor and join all the wav files together eliminating the gap if it is in fact there at either the end or beginning of the original files, then save the resulting huge wav file. Then you convert to one big mp3 the entire wav file.

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    • sasserwazr

      • May 2004
      • 2

      #3
      Re: MP3 Gap

      Is there anyway I can get rid of it without making one file?

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      • ChristinaS
        dBpoweramp Guru

        • Apr 2004
        • 4097

        #4
        Re: MP3 Gap

        Originally posted by sasserwazr
        Is there anyway I can get rid of it without making one file?
        You should check a couple of the mp3 files and make sure they don't have a little gap at the end or the beginning. If necessary, just to test, chop off a bit from the end and the beginning and see if it still happens. If it does, it's iPod that adds that little gap in rendering, so unless there are ways to fine tune that, I fear all you can do is "glue" the files together and make one big mp3 file.

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        • Spoon
          Administrator
          • Apr 2002
          • 44575

          #5
          Re: MP3 Gap

          The iPod cannot even play Apple Lossless files without putting that gap in...bad apple!
          Spoon
          www.dbpoweramp.com

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