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Burn a Truly Gapless CD on a Mac?

I've had a Mac for about two years now, and one thing that has always bothered me is iTunes' inability to burn a gapless cd (or rip one, as separate tracks).

I use iTunes, and while it's great for casual listening, it lacks any sort of power options and i seriously doubt that it's a popular player in a community like this.

So I ask, is it possible to rip a gapless CD of mp3s or aac files?  I know it has a lot to do with the additional silence that is added to the front and end of mp3s (and aacs?), but iTunes can't even do it if i just take the original .wav files off a CD and set the gap to 0 seconds, and burn it.

Any Mac users successful at this?

Burn a Truly Gapless CD on a Mac?

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I've had a Mac for about two years now, and one thing that has always bothered me is iTunes' inability to burn a gapless cd (or rip one, as separate tracks).

I use iTunes, and while it's great for casual listening, it lacks any sort of power options and i seriously doubt that it's a popular player in a community like this.

So I ask, is it possible to rip a gapless CD of mp3s or aac files?  I know it has a lot to do with the additional silence that is added to the front and end of mp3s (and aacs?), but iTunes can't even do it if i just take the original .wav files off a CD and set the gap to 0 seconds, and burn it.

Any Mac users successful at this?
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Not that I have burned that many CDs on the mac myself, and certainly not any music CDs without gaps. But I prefer to use Toast for that part. You have a bit more options to play with in that program. Have you tried it?

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I use Macs as well, but AFAIK there is no IMO good player for OS X. I myself can't stand iTunes, but have been unable to find any real alternative, so I just have to bite the bullet.
It's hard when going from great (Foobark2k: light, powerful, configurable) to subpar (iTunes: Bloated, slow, nonconfigurable).

You can install XMMS if you have Fink, but this requires that you start X11 and this means just as much bloat as if you just run iTunes.
qtplay: is very light, but it is also very bare , 12kb but it's commandline and really simple.
mppdec: to decode mpc tracks only
xist: Looked like a up'n'comming potential great player, but author doesn't appear to have time to develop it
Audion3: It's free, but the layout and /faces/skins availble is clumsy and from the 20 or so skins i tried all are ugly/impractical as h3ll. It doesn't play .m4a/p, but just hangs for a few seconds and then stalls.

any other ?

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Toast burns gapless, but it costs money. You could also try X-CD-Roast which supports DAO burning and is free (at the expense of a horrid UI).

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Thanks for all the suggestions.

I have Toast, but i don't know how to create a gapless CD in it.

If i add a bunch of tracks, and set the gap to zero, it still sounds like iTunes' version of a gapless CD.

I'll give the other's a try.

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Thanks for all the suggestions.

I have Toast, but i don't know how to create a gapless CD in it.

If i add a bunch of tracks, and set the gap to zero, it still sounds like iTunes' version of a gapless CD.

I'll give the other's a try.
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Which version of Toast do you have ? Older ones would introduce microgaps when burning audio from WAV files but would be fine if fed AIFFs. I can't remember when this bug was ironed out but if you have this problem I recommend using MissingMediaBurner (if your burning drive supports it).

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Thanks for all the suggestions.

I have Toast, but i don't know how to create a gapless CD in it.

If i add a bunch of tracks, and set the gap to zero, it still sounds like iTunes' version of a gapless CD.

I'll give the other's a try.
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Which version of Toast do you have ? Older ones would introduce microgaps when burning audio from WAV files but would be fine if fed AIFFs. I can't remember when this bug was ironed out but if you have this problem I recommend using MissingMediaBurner (if your burning drive supports it).
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I'm using Toast 6.0.9

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I'm using Toast 6.0.9
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I just burned a disc from WAV files with Toast 6.1 and there were no gaps. I extracted the audio from the burned disc as a single file and checked it in an audio editor to be certain and it was indeed gapless. I can understand the problem with burning from MP3 etc but it should not be there with original lossless files.