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I believe this is up to the ripping software, not the player. The player simply sees it as multiple tracks. iTunes is probably your most dependable route. It's a cumbersome application that will add items to Windows startup. Don't be afraid to completely uninstall it once it's done what you need to have done. It's a great tool to back up an iPhone and/or iPad, though!
Because the CD tracks are individual files
I rip to Windows Music. The computer plays albums that have seamless tracking without inserting breaks between the tracks. When I take these files to the USB stick and play them in the Stinger, I get breaks between the tracks where none exist on the CD or when playing the ripped files on the computer. (Interestingly, as I mentioned on the other thread, last time I played Alan Parson directly from the CD on the computer, it inserted breaks!? But the ripped files played back without breaks. Eh?)Merlin Am I not getting what you are asking? I rip my cd's to a usb stick and play one song right after another....no spaces or nuthin.....or am I not understanding what you need?
The Microsoft reviews of iTunes average 3 stars. The bad reviews are really, really bad. I don't think I want to hassle this route. Thanks anyway.
As I described above, the player seems to be a deciding factor: even the media interfacing with the player makes a difference: else why would listening directly from the CD be different from listening from ripped files on the computer?
Experimenting further with this: I have listened countless times to my CD of Also Sprach Zarathustra and not till a couple of days ago did I notice that there actually 11, count 'em 11, TRACKS to that thing. Other than the famous opening, and of course the one break in the middle (which was a convenient break on the LP recording of yesteryear), there is NO break to the entire thing: until I listen to it in the Stinger: I just put this on the USB yesterday, and listened to it for the first time in the Stinger just now: breaks every c. two to four minutes! Grrr!!! The breaks are nowhere near two or even one second; more like half a second, but palpable still the same. A break/pause is just that, regardless of how long it is, if you can hear it.
http://demo.webstervid.com/ABBA - Seamless - 10.wav (Note, will take some time to download-be patient) However, I created it in a much too high bit rate, but that started me thinking, the El Cheapo media player in the Stinger will probably reject any combined track as "File Too Large" anyway, so as MerlinTheMad has concluded, the player is the issue. KIA probably figures everyone will use their mobile device as player anyway, Spotify, Pandora etc.
That is so lame, if that is the case. There won't be any upgrading with a software update. I hadn't even thought of "file too big" rejection. Heh! That's a new wrinkle I can "look forward to".
That is so lame, if that is the case. There won't be any upgrading with a software update. I hadn't even thought of "file too big" rejection. Heh! That's a new wrinkle I can "look forward to".
Slow on the uptake here. I've been reading about "alphabetical order" and thought, what's the problem? Don't most people want their albums listed in alphabetical order? You give each album the name it came with, or you change it to suit; and the player plays from an alphabetized list, in order if you don't step in and select something. But you're not saying that at all. If I am understanding you, the player takes the individually titled tracks within a single album and scrambles them to be alphabetized? What happened to the numerical designation at the beginning of each track? I've never seen the player in the Stinger do what you are complaining about. But my only source is USB stick. It is duplicated from "Music" on my computer and plays in exactly the same order as copied to the stick.
But clearly not a universal problem, since I haven't run into anything of the sort. All my albums play in original recorded order. My USB stick is a few years old, however. Could the newer sticks have different formatting or some other difference that is incompatible with the player in the Stinger?
This conversation has made me aware of two things: how "one trick pony" I am about listening to my USB sourced music - I only select off the alphabetized master list; and, now I am leery of trying any other "browsing" options. I might awaken the beast and, once awakened, my system will stop behaving itself!
This conversation has made me aware of two things: how "one trick pony" I am about listening to my USB sourced music - I only select off the alphabetized master list; and, now I am leery of trying any other "browsing" options. I might awaken the beast and, once awakened, my system will stop behaving itself!
