Gapless playback - w00t!
I've been travelling all week so I haven't had a chance to look at the new iTunes 7.0 until just now. I've just installed it and now itunes 7.0 is happily going through my collection to 'determine gapless playback information'. I'm really excited about this. Until now, you would always hear 1 second or so gaps of silence between songs. This was fine for normal albums but if you listened to a concept album like Tommy, or Sgt. Pepper's or Dark Side of the Moon, the gap would just destroy the seemless transitions between songs. It looks like iTunes 7.0 will build a database of song transition timings so iTunes can put the proper amount of silence between songs. It looks like its going to take an hour or so to figure out the gaps for my 6,500 songs ... so I'll try it out soon. Can't wait! Update: Well, it looks like the gapless playback only works with the new 5th generation iPods ... bummer.