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Just having bought an NH900 (my very first foray into MD!), I'm disappointed to find that I get audible glitches between tracks that are supposed to run into one another seamlessly. (E.g. Dark Side Of The Moon.) Is this a known problem? I'm using SS 2.1 and I've tried different ATRAC3 rates and different WMA encodings but to no avail.

The only workround I've found is to rip the CD using lossless WMA and combine the tracks using MediaJoin.

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What is the source of the songs? MP3s? If the source is any other than AudioCD, then you will have gaps since the gap is in the source material. Just converting to Atrac won't magically give you gapless.

If your source is the actual audioCD, then try ripping both tracks selected at one shot. Sometimes if you rip tracks individually, you will have gaps.

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What is the source of the songs? MP3s? If the source is any other than AudioCD, then you will have gaps since the gap is in the source material. Just converting to Atrac won't magically give you gapless.

If your source is the actual audioCD, then try ripping both tracks selected at one shot. Sometimes if you rip tracks individually, you will have gaps.

Sorry, it is the actual CD and I did rip them in one shot.

What's more I know the ripped tracks have no gaps because when I combine them with MediaJoin it's perfect.

Magic I don't expect, but I did think this was sufficiently advanced technology. (With apologies to Arthur C. Clarke.)

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Just tried SS3.3 and it made no difference.

OTOH with Simple Burner 2.0 it's perfect! Duh, thanks Sony.

With Sonic Stage this can happen if you transfer individidual tracks from within a group together. You need to make sure that your view is set to "Albums" or "Albums / Playlists" from the drop-down views on the left, then when you transfer, just transfer the top level group or album (don't go into an album then select all tracks and transfer).

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Magic I don't expect, but I did think this was sufficiently advanced technology. (With apologies to Arthur C. Clarke.)

Another reason why I try to use Simpleburner exclusively to transfer music to MD. :)

Speaking of advance technology, the 5G iPod can decode H.264 video (in comparison, sub 1GHz PCs cannot even playback H.264, my 1GHz celeron chokes on plain DIVX videos), yet cannot do gapless. :D

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I used to use Simple Burner for this very reason when I first got my NH900. Then I figured out what the issue was and now use almost exclusively Sonic Stage because

- Sonic Stage will transfer cover art (for players that support it)

- SS will transfer track date info (for players that support it)

- with SS I can set separate artist info for tracks and albums within the same group. You can't do this I don't think with Simple Burner. ie. set the artist property on a compilation album to "Various" but then set the individual artists on the tracks.

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Just having bought an NH900 (my very first foray into MD!), I'm disappointed to find that I get audible glitches between tracks that are supposed to run into one another seamlessly. (E.g. Dark Side Of The Moon.) Is this a known problem? I'm using SS 2.1 and I've tried different ATRAC3 rates and different WMA encodings but to no avail.

The only workround I've found is to rip the CD using lossless WMA and combine the tracks using MediaJoin.

I had the same problem when I used the Sonicstage and for that reason I used Simple Burner (wich I think is great), I only used Sonicstage for simple songs, but when I install Sonicstage 3.1 (and higher) I had no problems at all, no gap and fast tranfers. I had many disk (Dark side of the Moon Include) and sound perfect.

Do the upgrade if you want to use Sonicstage to use all the bit rates instead of Simple Burner that can transfer in HI-LP, HI-SP and PCM only in HI-MD.

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