Coops,

That looks like a pic of Mr Senna's helmet and car.

At 61 I am making my first venture into Motorsport, just hill climbs and sprints with my Caterham 7.

Bought theYeti as a tow car.

Now I have the SD card working I can listen to Neil Young and Crazy Horse on my way home !!

I think iTunes allows a preference about gaps between tracks but I don't think it would create a continuous track.

Whilst on the subject of SD cards - I doubt this is possible, but is there a way to reduce the gap between tracks? Some of the albums I listen to, the tracks continue on from one to another and the gap of c1-2 secs is somewhat annoying? Suspect it isn't possible aside from physically putting all the tracks together into 1 large track.

I've been seeking an answer to this as well.

Will need to play with iTunes a bit more once I've got things sorted.

Coops,

That looks like a pic of Mr Senna's helmet and car.

At 61 I am making my first venture into Motorsport, just hill climbs and sprints with my Caterham 7.

Bought theYeti as a tow car.

Now I have the SD card working I can listen to Neil Young and Crazy Horse on my way home !!

Yep it sure is - McLaren MP4-4, best F1 car in history, but that's another thread! Caterham 7 - always wanted to build something like that and have the pleasure and satisfaction of driving it knowing I had built it. Maybe when the kids are older.

I think iTunes allows a preference about gaps between tracks but I don't think it would create a continuous track.

I've been seeking an answer to this as well.

Will need to play with iTunes a bit more once I've got things sorted.

At least I'm not the only one then!

I used to be able to do it when burning tracks to a CD but probably not on an SD card because of the file format. iTunes will probably let you set it for iPod etc.

Coops,

That looks like a pic of Mr Senna's helmet and car.

At 61 I am making my first venture into Motorsport, just hill climbs and sprints with my Caterham 7.

Bought theYeti as a tow car.

Now I have the SD card working I can listen to Neil Young and Crazy Horse on my way home !!

Hill climbs? Would that be at Harewood by any chance? I've been going there, but just to watch, for the last couple of years.

Excellent choice of music :love: All my Neil Young is on vinyl, and my son now has my record deck (only a humble mid 80's Dual CS505) so I don't get to indulge any more. More CDs to purchase I think.

No of course not, the point I was making was that files of that type can be played, if you already have them there is no need to convert them to mp3.

Over the years I have spent far too much money on expensive Hi Fi equipment, and I would love to go back to good old vinyl, and my Thorens TD160 deck with SME arm and fancy cartridge, the pay off with digital is that a large library can be accomodated in (very) small space !

I do understand your point, Geoff! Like Yety, though, possibly, I rarely use radio or player in the car - they can be very distracting and do mask the (sometimes very important) sounds that the car is making. Twelve speakers is eleven too many, and the remaining one should be on the passenger's side!

I jest, of course! Having now got the facility to play mp3 tracks, there's a big fat card-full ready to slip into the Bolero when times are right.

I do understand your point, Geoff! Like Yety, though, possibly, I rarely use radio or player in the car - they can be very distracting and do mask the (sometimes very important) sounds that the car is making. Twelve speakers is eleven too many, and the remaining one should be on the passenger's side!

I agree, I think it all depends on circumstance.

Having 12 speakers means that you dont have to have it so loud to be able to hear whats being played.

Generally speaking we have the radio on when we are travelling, but never so loud that it drowns out "car noises". Another advantage of having newer cars is that the need to keep an ear out is much reduced and with modern "drive by wire" mechanisms most major events are reported by a plethora of lights in the dash.

How these numpties with speakers bigger than their wheels (16" of course) can hear anything is beyond me. Its the same situation as people who have music piped directly into their ears, then give you a withering look when you blast you horn at them having narrowly NOT run them over!!

Oh .... the joys of being old(er) eh....

Is it really possible to tell, in an in-car environment? Just asking....

Depends on your ears and the compression level. If you are attuned to it, compressed music sounds unpleasant, getting worse the more compressed it is. Ears and hearing are quite remarkable things, with the ability to pick out sounds from a mask of other sounds, including the quality of that sound.

dbg400

L7C Championship is mainly down south but we do visit Harewood early August and I have a course booked at the school in May.

Built the car in 2005, busy taking bits off it at the moment trying yo reduce weight!

Off to see NY and Crazy Horse in Birmingham in June. Try to get to a concert every time he comes to the UK.....excellent.

Hope he does not pop his clogs before June !!

[it's a great day out even as a spectator, plus there's a Yeti car park - http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/245991-yeti-4x4-justification/ I have to pre-book the dates with SWMBO as many fall in school holiday season. I'll see if I can get to the August meets.]

...back on topic...

The lack of gapless playback is quite annoying, particularly with tracks that run into each other (like Oxygene & The Dark Side of the Moon). I have a number of them that I intend merging back into one big track once it gets too frustrating.

It's a shame the Bolero only does mp3 & wma, as virtually all my collection was in ogg format. In the wait for the Yeti last year I re-ripped the whole lot to 320 kbit/s rate, having recently redone most as flacs!

It's a shame the Bolero only does mp3 & wma, as virtually all my collection was in ogg format. In the wait for the Yeti last year I re-ripped the whole lot to 320 kbit/s rate, having recently redone most as flacs!

Good God!!

Language (Timothy) Martin

Track gap reduction, have a look at NCH wave pad editor, used this to link 2 tracks for a funeral service worked brilliantly!

Good God!!

Language (Timothy) Martin

All this is Alien language to me...... CDs, DVDs I understand.....MP3 (just about)...but the rest is all too much for a 60 year old!

Track gap reduction, have a look at NCH wave pad editor, used this to link 2 tracks for a funeral service worked brilliantly!

I think that will stitch 2 tracks together into 1? Maybe?

Ultimately I don't believe that this is an issue with the tracks or the SD card but the firmware and ability of the headunit, the Bolero in my case??

Joining two tracks together into one will work, but wouldn't you lose the indexing (ability of HU to skip to an identified place on the track - usually start if song)?

I also suspect that it is a HU firmware / software issue, but will play with iTunes' limited export options when I get my library back...

After all, iTunes plays the MP3's without gaps...

Will do the same KBPhoto - although I don't use iTunes much at all.

Will also see what is about on the net - did find something yesterday called RNS-E MP3 Manager, plenty of reference to it on the Audi and VW forums but appears the original source for it has gone down. This may have been an option.

ARGHHHHH!!!! - please talk in English.

ARGHHHHH!!!! - please talk in English.

What do you want to know?

I'll try to explain for you...

What do you want to know?

I'll try to explain for you...

It's OK My daughter and son have tried but I will stick to the past thanks. I do however understand SD cards now. Many thanks for the offer though.

Depends on your ears and the compression level. If you are attuned to it, compressed music sounds unpleasant, getting worse the more compressed it is. Ears and hearing are quite remarkable things, with the ability to pick out sounds from a mask of other sounds, including the quality of that sound.

I'd agree with this. I used to have all my MP3s at 128kbps but started to notice that the high frequencies weren't right - cymbals, in particular, had an odd "splashy" sound to them. I switched to 192kbps and in the environments in which I listen to MP3s that's good enough for me. I'm not sure if I could hear a difference between the 192kbps and the full-fat original - must give that a go some time. I do have a handful of tracks at 320kbps as I use those as part of the process for commissioning sound systems for work.

Having read the above with interest....thought I would have a go using Windows Media Player to SD card & into Bolero. The results are fantastic.

Thanks each.....