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Any news on gapless capable DAP?

Reply #25 –
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Quote from: pika2000 on

LOL. I posted this on Aug 7 2006. Of course, as everybody knows, now we have gapless iPods. My question has been answered.

Well, sort of.
Gapless doesnt work on my Video iPod. In fact, the gaps have been made worse since the new iTunes came out and spent several minutes of my time "scanning" my tracks for some voodoo-stuff that I really dont understand.

Besides, HbG is right, the average consumer just doesnt care about gapless. Even if you told them that their Britney Spears albums would be better with gapless support, they still would be like "Uh, okay?".


You might want to update your iPod's firmware before jumping to conclussions.
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Any news on gapless capable DAP?

Reply #26 –
Well, I don't think the iPod is a fashion or that people who listen to britney spears are the only ones who own iPods.  I listen to Korn, Dream Theater, Bleeding Through, Soilwork, and a bunch of other metal bands.  I purchased a iPod because I wanted something that used good hardware (I just came from a 3 Rio Karmas that all had the same cheap hard drive in them), came with good software, and something that was really easy to use.

Anyways, 5G iPods, 5.5G iPods, and 2G iPod nanos (I don't know about 1G nanos) are in fact gapless with the new firmwares.

Any news on gapless capable DAP?

Reply #27 –
1G nano is not gapless. Hopefully Apple is willing to update the firmware, considering 1G nano and 5G iPod use the same CPU.
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Any news on gapless capable DAP?

Reply #28 –
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Well, I don't think the iPod is a fashion or that people who listen to britney spears are the only ones who own iPods.  I listen to Korn, Dream Theater, Bleeding Through, Soilwork, and a bunch of other metal bands.  I purchased a iPod because I wanted something that used good hardware (I just came from a 3 Rio Karmas that all had the same cheap hard drive in them), came with good software, and something that was really easy to use.

Anyways, 5G iPods, 5.5G iPods, and 2G iPod nanos (I don't know about 1G nanos) are in fact gapless with the new firmwares.

Indeed there are people like you and me, who deviate from the average person in their listening habits and preferences in technology. I, for one, find that Technical Death Metal (Namely bands like Cryptopsy, The Monolith Deathcult, Spawn of Possession, Necrophagist, et cetera) is the only type of music which can occupate my mind enough for me to be entertained. And I also like Tool. Listening to Tool without gapless is blasphemy in my world.

But!
Snap out of your dreamy illusions where everybody has an IQ above 100, because there needs to be a hell of a lot people to balance out all of the intelligent people in this world, and those people all listen to fake marketing music, and really couldnt care less about a DAP's features.

"It can play music? So what? It can play video? So what? It's a DAP which all the cool people have? AWESOME!"


Bottom line is that only a fraction of ipod users care about gapless support, and if losing that fraction of customers costs less than implementing real gapless support, or flac support, or ogg support, or all of the above, then sorry dude - Why should Apple care?
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Any news on gapless capable DAP?

Reply #29 –
Quote from: Cutter on
Quote from: kwanbis on

Quote from: Cutter on

I'm looking for a flash player with gapless playback on WHATEVER format but .wav. Does this not exist?

the new apple ipod nano (and the old ones with rockbox).

http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/hands-o...d-nano-rainbow/

Thanks but I don't want to use iTunes.

You don't have to:
http://www.redchairsoftware.com/anapod/



Quote from: alive on
Gapless doesnt work on my Video iPod. In fact, the gaps have been made worse since the new iTunes came out and spent several minutes of my time "scanning" my tracks for some voodoo-stuff that I really dont understand.

"Not here." It works perfectly on my Video iPod. And as you can tell from several of my older posts, gapless playback has always been one of my pet peeves.

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Why should Apple care?

Apparently, they do care...
Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind.

Any news on gapless capable DAP?

Reply #30 –
Quote from: alive on
Bottom line is that only a fraction of ipod users care about gapless support, and if losing that fraction of customers costs less than implementing real gapless support, or flac support, or ogg support, or all of the above, then sorry dude - Why should Apple care?

That 'fraction' was clearly big enough for Apple to decide to introduce real gapless support.

And I suppose Madonna really bitched about 'Confessions on a Dancefloor' not being for sale gapless so they had to introduce two versions in the iTMS to overcome this.
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Sniffing in the VIP area / We talk about Frank Sinatra
Do you know Frank Sinatra? / He's dead