by Blorkersson » Wed Apr 05, 2023 2:15 pm
I would not refer to this as "gapless" because it gives a false idea of the transition from one song to another.
The issue that some of us are trying to resolve is when using the player in Shuffle mode: concept albums, with several separately identifiable songs, but intended by the artist to be heard as one continuous track, get split up. Our solution is to create the album with joined tracks, so that (as I prefer for example), side one of Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon can be played as one long track and side two as another long track, each track playing the five songs per side of the original vinyl album, even in Shuffle mode.
Traditionally, songs on an album would have a two or three second gap between each song. But as time moved on, some artists dropped that gap in order to give the impression of continuity between one song and the next. In some cases, the second song would begin as the first one was fading out (that is, the tracks were segued - a popular device used by artists such as Pink Floyd between the songs Money and Us And Them on their Dark Side Of The Moon album).
The artist Faithless did the same on their album Reverence, with church bells at the beginning of Insomnia heard as the track Angeline fades out. What these artists intended is that we listen to their album as one complete work, but with modern music players able to shuffle, that's easily lost (something artists don't always like).
As a consequence, I have ripped some albums from CD as joined tracks. Dark Side of The Moon for example; I have the original side one of the vinyl album as one track (five songs) and side two as another one track of the remaining side two songs. Other artists I treat the same way include Mike Oldfield and Andreas Vollenweider.
In iTunes, there is a feature named Join CD Tracks, which can used when ripping a CD into iTunes. It cannot be done after ripping, nor can it be used on digital files such as mp3. There does not appear to be an equivalent feature in Media Monkey, but it's what many of us would like, especially once iTunes is fully killed off, which we all know is coming.
On more modern albums, such as Chilllout or dance music, each song appears on the album as a separate track, while the lats track is a continuous mix of the complete album. It's this effect that we wish to create on these older albums. Call us old fashioned, but...
I would not refer to this as "gapless" because it gives a false idea of the transition from one song to another.
The issue that some of us are trying to resolve is when using the player in Shuffle mode: concept albums, with several separately identifiable songs, but intended by the artist to be heard as one continuous track, get split up. Our solution is to create the album with joined tracks, so that (as I prefer for example), side one of Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon can be played as one long track and side two as another long track, each track playing the five songs per side of the original vinyl album, even in Shuffle mode.
Traditionally, songs on an album would have a two or three second gap between each song. But as time moved on, some artists dropped that gap in order to give the impression of continuity between one song and the next. In some cases, the second song would begin as the first one was fading out (that is, the tracks were segued - a popular device used by artists such as Pink Floyd between the songs [b]Money [/b]and [b]Us And Them[/b] on their Dark Side Of The Moon album).
The artist Faithless did the same on their album Reverence, with church bells at the beginning of [b]Insomnia[/b] heard as the track [b]Angeline [/b]fades out. What these artists intended is that we listen to their album as one complete work, but with modern music players able to shuffle, that's easily lost (something artists don't always like).
As a consequence, I have ripped some albums from CD as joined tracks. Dark Side of The Moon for example; I have the original side one of the vinyl album as one track (five songs) and side two as another one track of the remaining side two songs. Other artists I treat the same way include Mike Oldfield and Andreas Vollenweider.
In iTunes, there is a feature named [b]Join CD Tracks[/b], which can used when ripping a CD into iTunes. It cannot be done after ripping, nor can it be used on digital files such as mp3. There does not appear to be an equivalent feature in Media Monkey, but it's what many of us would like, especially once iTunes is fully killed off, which we all know is coming.
On more modern albums, such as Chilllout or dance music, each song appears on the album as a separate track, while the lats track is a continuous mix of the complete album. It's this effect that we wish to create on these older albums. Call us old fashioned, but...