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I know this might not be the most appropriate place for this question, I apologize. I am trying to setup an infinite white/pink noise loop on my ipod (4th gen, 20G) to help our new crying baby sleep. This site has some great sounds for babies, I just need a little help learning to use them.

When I download the white/pink noise samples from this site, iTunes seems to be able to repeat them seamlessly, no gaps. But when played on the iPod in repeat mode, I still get gaps.

Is the inability of the 4th generation ipods to play “gapless albums” the reason for this, or should it be able to loop these sounds on my ipod? (see docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304362)

Should I be able to use “repeat” in audacity on one of the loopable samples to create a 4 hour file? I have not tried it yet as I am at work.

Can someone point me to other workarounds to getting 4 house of continuous playback on a ipod? Or tools for using these loopable tracks to create long continuous tracks?

Most portable players advertise gapless playback, but seldom do they actually achieve it. The feature obviously appears totally gapless when you are talking about two songs running into each other, on most songs you would never hear that 'gap', plus the player can probably be caching the next song anyway. Why it can't cache one track and play it truly gapless I do not know.

You're best bet at this point is to make a longer version in Audacity and then upload that to your ipod.

the itunes does not do real looping in the way you hear i audacity etc. no matter what you'll always get a small clip at the end before it replay's. you can try to zoom in really close in audactiy inorder to make sure the loop is edited properly (making sure the sound is not cut until the end loop point. some times there is a tiiiiiiny bit of sound missing before the END POINT OF THE LOOP. this is rare most audio editors fixed this problem a few years ago...but its still around.

my best advice would be to do this. either ask one of us to easily make a loop that's fairly long..or either put into a playlist a SERIES of loops that are long enough to keep playing over and over (instead of having say a 1 hour long loop that will take up much space and-which mind you i have a 2 year old and have another on the way and most babies will be out within an hour-so you don't really need a 1 hour loop of white noise)

anyway hope this helps if any.