<p>My friend’s birthday party is next week, and I’ve got a great collection of songs that I want to play there. However, I don’t want to have to be stuck behind a laptop being the DJ, so is there any way I can setup iTunes or Winamp to somehow seamlessly play the songs as a set? The problem with just setting up a playlist is that there are short but abrupt cutoffs in between songs. I don’t want to have to spend all night beatmatching, because I’d rather be dancing!</p>
<p>I’m not sure I understand the situation. Are you burning them to a CD, or just going to have a flash drive? I don’t get what you mean by cutoffs. Are they bad files?</p>
<p>Well you can use iTunes party mode.</p>
<p>I think you can also go into the settings and turn the gap off.</p>
<p>Make a playlist…</p>
<p>in itunes, make a playlist, then highlight all the songs, right click, go to info, check gapless album.</p>
<p>----should work now.</p>
<p>Thanks! That’s what I was looking for.</p>
<p>Oh wait, on further review, gapless albums are only useful for live recordings, or continuous concept album. It’s not quite what I’m looking for.</p>
<p>To clarify what I’m saying: you know how most songs fade out at the end? If you go to any club, a decent DJ will seamlessly link all the songs so that every moment on the dancefloor is filled with music, as opposed to lingering fade-outs. They do this by a process called “beatmatching”, which essentially means that they find two songs with similar BPM (beats per minute) and play the proceeding song as the previous song is ending. Thus, no musical momentum is lost and there are no awkward silences where people stand around waiting for the music to get going.</p>
<p>With a playlist, there is no beatmatching and you sometimes have to wait up to 10-20 seconds for the song to completely fade out before the next one starts.</p>