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Devices => Androids and other portables => Topic started by: e-head on July 18, 2008, 12:11:08 pm

Title: Syncing with MC and iTunes?
Post by: e-head on July 18, 2008, 12:11:08 pm

Anyone have any problems/issues with syncing an iPod with both iTunes and MC?

I tried it once, and the only issue I ran into was the name of my iPod got changed in iTunes. Not a big deal really.

The plan is to use MC for 90% of my syncing needs, but to use iTunes to throw on the occasional m4a album (if I need it to play gaplessly).

Title: Re: Syncing with MC and iTunes?
Post by: MGD_King on July 20, 2008, 09:32:39 am

Quote from: e-head on July 18, 2008, 12:11:08 pm

The plan is to use MC for 90% of my syncing needs, but to use iTunes to throw on the occasional m4a album (if I need it to play gaplessly).

I haven't had any issues with gapless playback of MP3's on my iPod as long as I've ripped the tracks with any version of MC12. I'm actually quite impressed with how the iPod handles gapless playback.

Title: Re: Syncing with MC and iTunes?
Post by: lalittle on July 20, 2008, 08:13:57 pm

Quote from: MGD_King on July 20, 2008, 09:32:39 am

I haven't had any issues with gapless playback of MP3's on my iPod as long as I've ripped the tracks with any version of MC12. I'm actually quite impressed with how the iPod handles gapless playback.

Note that for 5G iPods, navigating within a song can mess up the gapless change to the next song -- the effect is a very tiny piece of the end of the song being clipped off at the transition so that the next song starts a little bit ahead of the beat.  It's not always all that noticeable -- it depends on the specific transition in question -- but in my experience with a 5G iPod, the only way to get reliably correct gapless playback is to let a song play through from the beginning.

This does not appear to be an issue with the 6G "Classic" iPods, which still play gaplessly even after navigating within a song.

Larry