AAC gapless playback

[firekat]

I have tried for the first time encoding and playing some gapless tracks on the iPod. I used the Nero encoder for this and loaded them on the iPod with Ephpod. It seems to work ok, except that I get a for lack of a better term an "8 track tape" kind of pause between tracks. Is this normal? Has anyone else had any experiences with gapless playback with any format or encoding process? I would like to hear about anyone's experiences. I will also be doing a search...

Thanks all!

[saratoga]

AAC is not gapless, Nero simply adds gapless info to the files tag to allow people to play the files back gapless. However the ipod does not support this and thus is not gapless.

How did you get Nero's files to work with the ipod? MOst of mine copy ok, but they don't show up with any tags :(

[firekat]

The Nero AAC files I have extracted have been accomplished with EAC, Nencode, tg.exe and a command line addition implemented through the EAC interface. Torok has posted a bunch of the information needed and a general "how to" here on this website. I did find that when I had iTunes installed it did not read any of the Nero encoded tagging information - bummer. This is supposedly a iTunes bug and is supposedly is being addressed.

I have been using Ephpod 2.70a and this has been the only version that has worked for me. I prefer Ephpod as it gives me control that iTunes and the other programs do not on immediate face value appear to have. I uninstalled iTunes as I was not pleased with that lack of control and lack of options - like burning CD's with CD Text enabled.

I have been battling with tags on my aac files (.m4a) all day today. I have been trying to work with foobar, to no avail but I did find some interesting additions one of which is a freedb plugin. Foobar works very quickly and can encode with the Nero encoder. It also has the fastest extraction/compression that I have seen so far. Still none of the foobar aac tagging is readable in Ephpod, so I have to manually go in and edit the tags in Ephpod. Supposedly there is some work being done to Ephpod so hopefully we will have full functionality in that arena soon.

Thanks for the info, good luck.

[AptMunich]

how about itunes ppl?

[firekat]

What is iTunes ppl?- Can you elaborate? I am trying gapless playback on some files that I have recorded and encoded on my own so it is not something that I purchased out of the music store, nor is it something I ripped from a CD, though that could be accomplished as my recordings do end up on CD. I just figured it would be easier and more accurate to encode the wav files I use to make the CD's.

FYI - I am not currently using iTunes.

Have a good day.