While doing some further digging I came across 'this thread on the Hydrogen Audio forums' (http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t69836.html) that indicates at least some of the MP3s Amazon is selling were encoded from lossy source material. And even worse, that at least some albums have 2-second gaps introduced, like the kind you get with poorly designed/configured CD burning software. (The relevant part is almost halfway into that long thread. To skip over the AAC vs MP3 discussion at the beginning of that thread search for "gapless" and start reading from there.)
So far I've only bought single tracks from Amazon's MP3 store, so gapless hasn't been an issue. EDIT: and all the more reason why andyg's idea of doing some serious testing and writing it up in a blog would be a real contribution to music consumers. Now all we need to do is find him some spare time! -- aubuti ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73911 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
