Comments on: iTunes – Determining Gapless Playback Information

By: i.nconspicuo.us

i.nconspicuo.us — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 08:17:28 +0000

Glad this worked for you Zorky biff biff.

By: macuser84

macuser84 — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 00:02:28 +0000

I have found the solution to my problem. I started looking for duplicate songs in my playlist and noticed while there were songs with the same name the audio and time track did not add up. In short itunes had somehow managed to jumble up songs together on the same track to create a cluster f@#* of music. I found 281 songs all clustered together like this. Look for songs with an additional number at the end, an” _ ” (underscore) or that have the artist title and Album in the same area of info.

By: Zorky biff biff

Zorky biff biff — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:13:35 +0000

Thank you!
even 5 years later and I just found this solutions and it works!

By: Zena

Zena — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 06:38:49 +0000

I’m having the same problem as Grrr!!! Please help!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Zena

Zena — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 06:36:47 +0000

I’m having the same problem as Grrrrrr!!!!…..#$%*!!!! Please help!!!!!!

By: Grrrrrr!!!!.....#$%*!!!!

Grrrrrr!!!!.....#$%*!!!! — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:14:17 +0000

I have the worst possible scenario. I’ve been hosed by some brilliant codewriter at iTunes that is so anal retentive as to write a code that locks up my computer because of the gaps between songs. I have a VAST music library I’ve collected my entire life, and Itunes won’t play it because it’s hung up on “Determining Gapless Playback Information”. I’d just let it run, but other than being ANNOYING, it locks up my itunes on the same song(s) over and over and over.
If I’m fortunate, I can write down the song and just delete the sucker and loose my song. I lost about a dozen this way before the one it gets hung up on now happens so fast that I can’t check the little “X” to stop it before it locks.

The end result? I open Itunes, blink, and it locks frozen solid.

I called Apple about this, but they want to charge me 29.99 for an IPOD support issue. I don’t have a problem with my IPODs. They function just fine. Of course I can’t sync them because of freaking Itunes being rendered functionless by some moron.

By: Pissed off

Pissed off — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 21:19:03 +0000

Please please help me. I kinda like the gapless playback but in certain songs it just stops and goes totally unresponsive and then my computer freezes and my iPod wont sync because of that. What do I do?

By: chris

chris — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 01:26:46 +0000

(i’ll try enabling the crossfading playback, but it will be about 40 minutes before itunes draws the “X” button to stop the gapless playback bull, and another 120 minutes or so before it actually responds to being clicked)

By: Lara

Lara — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:18:13 +0000

I like it, although it crashes when I try to play files in m4p format, which I suppose isn’t entirely unexpected since it’s a protected format. The UI is quite nice. I have an iPod, so of course that’s problematic. There are a couple of schemes for syncing an iPod with Songbird but I haven’t had time to try them out, yet. I still buy music from iTunes Store– again, no time to check out other options (but I will). When I do download new music, I just convert everything to mp3 and import it into Songbird. A PITA, for sure, but not as bothersome as dealing with gapless playback!

One thing I really loved when I was using Windows Media Player was that you could set up playlists according to genre and “mood”, and you could apply multiple genres and moods to each track. Sometimes I want the randomness of the shuffle without deviating from whatever sound I’m in the mood for, and the opportunities with WMP were limitless in this regard.

What are your thoughts on Media Monkey?

By: i.nconspicuo.us

i.nconspicuo.us — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:35:18 +0000

Hi Lara – how do you like Songbird? I’ve tested it out and tried it out a couple times, but have since switched to Media Monkey. I’m curios to hear how you like it for organizing/managing your music.

By: Lara

Lara — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:32:32 +0000

Update: got tired of trying to catch and stop gapless playback every time I downloaded something from iTunes Store. Switched to Songbird. It’s a shame– I liked iTunes otherwise.

By: i.nconspicuo.us

i.nconspicuo.us — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 06:06:33 +0000

Hi Tracy, thanks for the comment! Glad it helped you out… I still can’t figure out why Apple won’t allow Gapless Playback to be disabled. It’s a pretty useless function for most users.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 02:36:24 +0000

Thanks for saving me some time. iTunes automatically runs the most inane and TIME CONSUMING processes. Thanks to you. I’ll be skipping this one.

By: Lara

Lara — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:21:14 +0000

Wow– appears this post is over 3 years old and the problem is still rampant. I finally ported all of my music (over 3000 tracks) over to iTunes after previously only using it to sync my iPod to particular albums. I was tired of trying to juggle two players which inevitably resulted in duplicated tracks, etc. Anyway, as soon as I brought all my tracks in, I’d boot up iTunes and it would freeze my desktop after about 20 seconds. Your suggestions solved the problem– thank you! Seems pretty stupid that this buggy “feature” is turned on by default, and turning it off is hardly straightforward.

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Turning off "Determining Gapless Playback Information" | Forever iPhone — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:49:09 +0000

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