beanstalker

I realise that this post hasn't been updated in a while but I found it in a search and was hoping maybe somebody might have some answers now.... I am currently running the demo version of pureMusic 3.0 and so far I really like it. However I am also interested in the gapless playback feature (VERY important for Pink Floyd!): I use XLD to rip and Media Rage to tag all of my audio files (I use ALAC) but I have been unable to find any field in ANY editor except iTunes that allows me to mark a gapless album. Is the gapless tag part of the files metadata or is it information that gets stored in iTunes? I know that XLD detects any pregap between tracks on the disc and includes this (or not if there isn't any) in the ripped files. Therefore I assume that if I mark all my albums as gapless in iTunes, then they should all play correctly/as originally mastered on the CD? The important point of all this is: will I have to go through all (almost all) of my albums in iTunes and mark them as gapless? Also I noticed that when using Memory Play with an album that I did mark as gapless, PureMusic started using a ridiculous amount of system memory (I know that it has to load all of the files into memory for the gapless feature to work but the total size of all the files in the album was at least half the amount of memory that Pure Music was using). Does anyone know why this might be? Also I noticed that the iTunes/PureMusic combo has significantly higher CPU usage than just iTunes which is contrary to the claims made by the developers of PureMusic on their website. I am trying to decide whether to purchase PureMusic or not..... and I definitely can't afford Amarra! I am using a MacBookPro with 2.8GHz core2Duo and 4Gb RAM running OS X 10.4.6 Snow Leopard. Cheers,