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As much as I dislike iPods, at least they now have gapless playback.

Yeah, but they cheat. You have to select gapless as a specific option in iTunes for every album you want gapless, and then (still on the iTunes side) it looks at the files and stores a sample offset for the start/end points.

Real men would write player software that did gapless on-the-fly, all the time, on the player, without needing to set options or do any PC-side preprocessing.




I don't own an iPod, so I can only go by what I've read. But, as I understand it, the "gapless" flag in iTunes is not needed to make albums play gaplessly. Rather, flagging an album or track as gapless blocks it from being crossfaded when played in iTunes. So, no, you don't need to manually flag anything to make it play gaplessly on the iPod.