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Create gapless yet skippable music files for the iPod
Authored by: stillm on Aug 20, '05 08:01:54PM

i discovered this a couple of weeks ago as well, and have since created a number of these full-album files, both directly from CDs and from combining AAC files.

i have been fairly happy with the results, with only a couple of frustrations:
1) the start-times are often a bit off. the export script seems to round down to the nearest second, meaning that as you get further into the disc, tracks become more and more out of sync with their chapter marker. on a 20-track file, the last tracks may be 8 or 10 seconds away from the start time on the CD. the only solution i have found is to manually adjust the chapter times in audiobinder (before binding the file) to reflect the correct starts.... has anyone else found a shortcut to this?
2) while you can easily switch between "tracks" (parts of the large, bound file) through the pop-up menu in itunes, there is no way to do so on an ipod (at least on my shuffle). it treats the file as a single hour-long track, and hitting the "next track" button will open a different file instead of the next track. does anyone know a way around this?



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Chapter pointers slightly off
Authored by: DougAdams on Aug 21, '05 07:25:57PM

About chapter start times being slightly off: rounding each track's to the nearest second and adding them together to get chapter start times is not the best solution. My script, Join Together, mentioned above, uses Spotlight scripting to grab accurate durations from a file's meta data out to a millionth of a second (or whatever the fractional time happens to be). Despite the time format requirements suggested for ChapterTool--a time value such as 12:34--apparently times such as 12:34.56789 work fine, and thus provide more accuracy.

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Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes
http://www.dougscripts.com/itunes/



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question about Join Together
Authored by: silentaccord on Aug 22, '05 04:02:22PM

When Join Together exports AAC audio from QuickTime, is it compressing it again or is it just passing the audio through unmodified?



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Create gapless yet skippable music files for the iPod
Authored by: jiclark on Aug 31, '05 08:21:01PM

So can anyone tell us if there's a way to get the chapters to work on the iPod? In other words, be able to click forward or backward and go to next/previous chapter, not track? Is this even possible???

Thanks,
John-o



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Create gapless yet skippable music files for the iPod
Authored by: silentaccord on Sep 01, '05 12:53:51AM

I've been able to skip through the chapters of tracks processed with ChapterTool and AudioBinder. On a third generation iPod, you have to press the select button to see the chapters and skip to them. On a fourth generation iPod, the chapters appear on the default view. Both iPods have the latest software. I haven't tested any other iPod models.



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Create gapless yet skippable music files for the iPod
Authored by: mr.quinn on Sep 25, '05 08:13:39AM

You can skip between chapter tracks in iTunes by holding down the shift key and clicking the forward/backwards buttons.



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