Import multiple CD tracks as one song in iTunes4

Jun 23, '03 10:17:00AM

Contributed by: bradbeiter

If you are like me, then you have lots of CDs that are continuos mixes (trance, techno, ambient, other?). Before iTunes4, you could not really remove the split-second gap in-between tracks when you encoded a CD. This caused much annoyance when you listened to the CD.

But now, with iTunes4, you can remove the gap when you encode your CD by selecting all of the tracks then going to the Advanced Menu and selecting "Join CD Tracks." When selected, iTunes4 renames the first track to the name of the CD, and will play this track as the full disk of tracks you have joined together. If you start with a track that is not the first track, say number 5, it will only play that track then pause, then play track 6 like it usually does.

You cannot join tracks that you have already ripped. If you try this, you may also see that it could mess up your ID3 tags, but I have not had the time to figure this one out yet.

No clue how this works with an iPod, as I do not own one. But if someone does and wants to try this out and let me know, that would be lovely.

[robg adds: Showing my age, I think I only have one CD (Dark Side of the Moon) that may qualify as "continuous tracks," so I can't verify that this works as described ... but we've discussed the limitation before...]

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