Hello folks, I need your help. I have been trying to get my head round this new technology lark. I bought this to replace the Symphony head unit,

Blaupunkt Sevilla MP36

and have bought a second hand iBook G4 to create the CDs for it. I have a couple of questions.

1. If I am burning something such as a Euphoria album where the whole album is one seamless mix, how do I avoid the system putting gaps inbetween each track on the new version?

2. How can I create a CD so that the head unit can search by album rather than search through all the tracks one by one?

I am probably asking extremely dopey questions, but I haven't ventured into the world of MP3 before.

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers,

Andrew.

Download and install iTunes:

Apple - iPod + iTunes

Go to preferences and select burning to MP3.

I think the new version of iTunes allows seamless stuff.

Good Luck!

Thanks for the advice. I'll download the new version and give it a whirl.

You need to find the folders in which your music is kept in, and drag each folder onto the cd icon on the desktop (should appear when u put in a blank cd) that way you can browse by album, as for seemless playing of tracks - not possible with mp3 cd's

as for seemless playing of tracks - not possible with mp3 cd's

I'll try the drag and drop technique today. It's a shame about the gaps inbetween the tracks. You'd have thought with all this technology that there would be some way round it. Thanks again.

You can get programs that will rip the entire CD to one single MP3 track.

Not sure of a mac version though

Not sure if nero is available for Mac's but there is a function to eliminate gaps between track so they play through.

I just tend to create a Data disc and keep everything in folders on the CD.

Not sure if nero is available for Mac's but there is a function to eliminate gaps between track so they play through.

I just tend to create a Data disc and keep everything in folders on the CD.

On normal cd's yes - not on MP3 cd's

iTunes will rip an entire cd to one mp3 file...

If i remember correctly you select the tracks and link them before you set it ripping to mp3..

I think there are ways of splitting it back done once imported as well... google should turn something up on this

Try Audiograbber it is only for windows though it is a free really good and useful mp3 ripper

I konw the latest itunes supports gapless playback on ipods.. but not sure if it can translate that to audio or mp3 cds as gapless MP3's tend to be a feature of a particular player rather than thier format...

in the past mix cds that ive *cough* "seen" online have been one big MP3 with a cue sheet... the cue sheet can be read by some mp3 players/cd burning software to split it down into the individual tracks..

OK a couple of things.

If you're converting to MP3 and putting on a data CD (and not an audio CD), then you have two options:

1) IF the headunit can reduce the gap to zero between MP3 files, then you can rip the CD tracks into individual MP3 files. This will give you discrete tracks and you can jump from one to another within an album

2) If the headunit puts 1-2 second gaps when playing back, then the only way to get gapless playback is to have the whole album as one big long mp3 track. This is fine, but you can't jump to an individual track because the head unit only sees one big file.

The only other way around this is if the headunit supports cue files like Neovr suggested. In this case, you still have ony big long mp3 track, but a seperate "text" file points to all the tracks inside the MP3. This of course requires the headunit to support it which I doubt.