Seamless looping on a media player / small ipod ? - Social Sound Design

Seamless looping on a media player / small ipod ?

2012-09-12T16:10:47Z

Hey Folks,

I'm helping an artist friend with an exhibition, where we need to be able to loop an audio seamlessly for 3 days. I would normally use Ableton live for this, but the nature of the space dictates that a computer would be impossible to hide..

Is seamless looping possible with an mp3 player? I mean a cheap one from the corner electronics shop.

I know that there are issues regarding looping with MP3s (but it all seems to do with looping in a playback engine/ game), but there must be a way to do this. Tomorrow I will go out and look for a MiniDisc player and give it a try. Also, I suppose a cheap loop pedal or a cheap sampler might be an option too, but that put's it out of my 'client's' budget.

Any help appreciated

Kurt

Answer by Mark Durham for Seamless looping on a media player / small ipod ?

2012-09-12T17:24:34Z

Not sure, but you do get seamless loop cd players which are reasonably small like this Numark. I imagine they're pretty solid too as that's what they are designed for. That one is about £128. Probably out of your budget, but maybe you could get a secondhand bargain.

Answer by Stavrosound for Seamless looping on a media player / small ipod ?

2012-09-26T19:20:36Z

Create the sound file, bounced as a loopable file with no printed silence on the front or back
In iTunes tag it as "Part Of A Gapless Album" under Options for the file itself
Create a new playlist
Add this file to the playlist or maybe a few repeated entries of it for a good measure
On the iPod playback, go to the new Playlist, hit Play (on the top of the playlist, not the files in the playlist)
Once it starts playing, select the loop icon. This should loop your playlist continuously, and by indicating it's gapless, the playback should be seamless.