gaps between tracks - classic or dud?

Unsatisfied Audience Member: "Psssh...I can do THAT at home."

Gah! Was listening to a favourite album on YouTube and it had gaps between tracks that were supposed to be seamless. I tried another upload of it and it also had gaps.

I once bought a Logik CD player that had fecking gaps between tracks and somebody here said there are more CD players doing that these days. People doing this should be named, shamed and sent to the layer of hell reserved for the inventors and preservers of region codes.

i'll never forget this big house party I attended in Brighton circa 2003 where for some reason no one could work out how to switch off the 2-second-gap function on the CD player we were using. Loads of people dancing to a mixed CD and having to stop and go 'auuugh' during each transition. It became like an adult version of musical statues and quite funny in the end.

Wow, that would have ruined the night for me.

Does anyone know if any models of mp3 players and ipods do this. I want one of these someday soon and am worried if I buy a nice cheap one it'll maybe have this feature.

Regarding 2-second gaps between tracks on mix CDs, check that your CD-burning app is set for "disc at once" rather than "track at a time" burning. The latter will yield 2-second gaps.

One of the iTunes revisions many years ago was to allow for gapless playback; I think if set that way it will set your iPod to do the same.

Often, burning software will have a "Number of seconds gap" setting, so.

Mp3s will still have a blip gap, wavs can have no gap if the music runs on.

Other formats I don't know.

Mp3s will still have a blip gap

Sometimes when choosing a running order for an album, gaps between tracks can be useful. Just the right amount of "gap" between one track and another can be useful in helping an album to flow.

Having said that, though, a lot of my favourite moments on albums tend to be the way tracks segue together, like on some of the early Queen albums or Depeche Mode's Black Celebration just to name a couple of examples.

Wasn't there a Depeche Mode album with huge gaps between the tracks for "reflection and contemplation" or something?

Ultra certainly has some incredibly lengthy gaps! It's one of the things that surprised me about the album when it came out, to be honest, because many of their albums prior to that had such a continuity to them in terms of segues and flow etc. The only reason I can think of why the chose to do this on Ultra is because of the way they approached the record because of their well-documented problems at the time.

i've been agonizing over this a little for something i'm working on. i love albums that segue between tracks too, but i hate hearing one of those tracks in isolation when it has a hard, abrupt start or stop instead of a nice little fade. i'm thinking of how to have the best of both worlds, like at the end of one track bringing in elements or atmosphere from the next, but then fading them out.

I think Root - Temple In The Underworld has gaps that aren't supposed to be there. I'm sure the tracks were supposed to flow together. Maybe it's just the reissue. But that's the only proper music release I've bought that included this accident.

Jordan I've been thinking the same. I like the idea of a continuous flowing album but it's no wonder you don't get so many. Especially now shuffle makes this increasingly common

Can I just say "it depends"?

Was listening to I think the latest Leonard Cohen, and I kept thinking it had stopped because each song ended with a looooonng fade. Or maybe it was all in my head.

I haven't reviewed him or anything but I think most Cohen ends with a fade. He's sort of that musician whose songs could go on forever but he only wrote three verses, so oh well... now it ends...