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Sound Check, Album Art, Gapless CDs & More
Learn how to use some of the less publicized, but still useful, features of iTunes like Sound Check and gapless playback, here.
Have You Made an iMix? - Share Your iMix
The iMix feature of iTunes allows you to create a custom playlist and then publish it to the iTunes Store for anyone to buy and enjoy. If you've made an iMix, post a link to it here and let us know what your goals for your iMix were.
How Do You Get iTunes Album Art?
There are many ways to get cover art for albums in iTunes, from the built-in tool to third-party programs like CoverScout. In the age of CoverFlow, album art is more essential than ever. Share the ways that you get album art, what works and what doesn't, what's fast and what takes too much time.
How to Add Album Art in iTunes
Tips on the various ways to add album art to your iTunes library and, where necessary, your iPod.
Using Sound Check with iTunes
Make your songs in iTunes all play at roughly the same volume using Sound Check.
Setting Gapless Playback in iTunes
Most albums have short sections of silence between songs. But not all of them do — some albums are designed to have one track flow directly into the next and that silence actually disrupts the way the music is supposed to sound. To address this need for what is called “gapless playback,” Apple added this feature to iTunes 7.
iPods that Support Gapless Playback
Like to listen to a lot of concert recordings? You'll want one of these iPods.
Burn a Gapless CD in iTunes
Some CDs are designed to listened to without the short gaps of silence between songs. These are called “gapless” tracks or CDs. When you’re burning a CD in iTunes, you may need to ensure that the CD you’re burning is gapless so that it plays back the way it was meant to sound.