My Quick Fix

Problem

Recently I bought an Apex single from iTunes. Excellent though the tracks are (They really rock, honestly, if you like D&B, have a listen!), they both have about 5 seconds of blank ‘emptiness’ at the beginning. This is quite annoying when cueing them for an impromptu mix, or when they are part of a playlist.

Solution

I found this by accident, while looking for a solution. If you right click on the track in iTunes, then select the ‘Options’ track, you should see an option labelled ‘Start Time’. This is the time that iTunes uses when it plays a track, so if you set it to 0:05 for example, when you play the track it’ll start 5 seconds in. Simple but effective! Genius!

See? It was right there all along!

While we’re on the subject of Drum & Bass, if you like your intelligent programmed beats and ambient sweeps, you have to check out the following tracks:

• Japanese Electronics – Commix
• Balaclava – Nu:Tone
• Piece Of Mind – Q-Project (looses it around 2:15, gets it back at 3:40!)
• Sagrada Familia – Fracture & Neptune [no site? no MySpace? cummon fellas!]