radish;137052 Wrote: > There are ... several portable players [that support the LAME tags] > including the Rio Karma and iPod (although it's not yet known if it > actually reads the headers itself or has iTunes do it first). There's been a lot of discussion of the new iPod gapless feature over at the Hydrogen Audio forums. All the evidence so far seems to indicate that: 1. You need to use iTunes to analyse the MP3 files. If they contain LAME tags, iTunes reads those during the scan, otherwise it uses some sort of silence-detection heuristic. This is probably the right way to do it, so that non-LAME-ripped MP3s still have a chance of being gapless. 2. The gapless metadata is then stored in the iTunes database (and thence transferred to the iPod database); the LAME tags are not used during playback. 3. Only 5G and later iPods (possibly 4G colour, too) have a firmware update that support this feature. What seems certain is that there is no firmware update for the 4G greyscale or the old iPod mini, which of course are the ones my wife and daughter have. Bummer.
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