I've gone back and forth on this issue a good bit myself. On the one
hand, it is tough to help people ID tracks when everything is within
one big mp3. On the other hand, it is tough to help people get a
consistent listening experience when tracks in a continuous mix are
broken up, because different players define "gapless playback" in
different ways, and some mp3 players enforce gaps between files no
matter what.
I really like the CUE plugin for Winamp:
http://www.winamp.com/plugins/details/143011 ...though lots of other
players support CUE as well.
You can create a tracklist of the individual songs and embed it inside
the mp3, and/or keep the tracklist as a discrete CUE file (I do both).
In the end, I decided that my desire for continuous playback by
default trumped the other concerns, and in the unlikely event that
someone was motivated enough to change what I was distributing, I
suspect they would have an easier time splitting the single continuous
file than putting together all the separate pieces. But as they say,
your mileage may vary.
Peace,
Nick
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From: Chris <subliminal345345@yahoo.com>
To: "John D." <john.dalton@msa.hinet.net>, idm@hyperreal.org
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 23:08:10 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: [idm] Fresh Techno/Tech House Mix
Hey thanks for the response. It's broken into tracks to aid in track
identification really.
-DJ Christof.
--- On Sat, 4/25/09, John D. <john.dalton@msa.hinet.net> wrote:
quoted 7 lines From: John D. <john.dalton@msa.hinet.net>
> From: John D. <john.dalton@msa.hinet.net>
> Subject: Re: [idm] Fresh Techno/Tech House Mix
> To: "Chris" <subliminal345345@yahoo.com>
> Cc: idm@hyperreal.org
> Date: Saturday, April 25, 2009, 12:14 PM
> Pretty sick. Not to look a gift horse
> in the mouth, but why individual mp3s?
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