![]() All gapless albums are automatically detected and played as such on iPods and other iOS devices. This tag only matters if you have Crossfade Song turned on in iTunes (Preferences > Playback), and it only affects playback from iTunes. That tag at the bottom of the first screenshot, Gapless Album, or at the bottom of the second, Part of a Gapless Album (thanks for being consistent, Apple), has one, and only one usage. If you select a number of tracks in iTunes, then choose Get Info, and click on the Options tab, you see this:Īnd if you choose a single track, you see this: (I won’t link to it, as it was written in 2006, and addressed the problem of gapless playback on the iPod.) I realized that many people don’t understand what that Gapless Album tag is, so here’s a brief explanation. Read on and understand what this tag was for.įollowing a comment from a Twitter friend, asking how to find which of a number of albums require gapless playback, I pointed him to an old article on this website. However, many people don’t understand this, and think that the removal of this tag means that iTunes no longer plays music without gaps. ![]() Update: I’ve reposted this article because with the release of iTunes 11, the Gapless Album tag is no longer available in the program. ![]()
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