------------------------------------------------------------------------ A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19736 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Question: "gapless" crossfade type would be useful - Yes - I'd use it - No - not interested ------------------------------------------------------------------------
radish Wrote: > Just to be clear, I'm not downplaying the importance of gapless > playback, it's one of the most important features to me as probably 80% > of what I listen to needs it. I'm just suggesting that a better solution > is to use a different file format rather than hacking the playback code > to try and guess what to do - which in my experience rarely works > perfectly. The combination of flac, vorbis, squeezebox and rio karma > have ensured that I haven't heard a gap in a loooong time :) Totally agree, implementing gapless playback with MP3 is like putting a band aid on someone who has had their legs cut off, if you know what i mean, as MP3 is inherently poor at to start with. What would be a better solution is making OGG native, which is designed for gapless playback and i think that's far more important even for people with no interest in gapless playback. Mark, i think you would be best off re-ripping your files (yeah, i know) to a better format or using CUE's. It is possible to stitch your existing files together and creating a CUE using Foobar, which -might- be an option, but i have never don't it TBH. Or at least re-encoding with LAME using the no padding frame option. I always rip to FLAC (hard drives are cheap these days) and re-encoded what i need for my portable etc as i need them - or remember it is possible to rip to more than one format at the same time using a plug-in for EAC i think. I have voted for this and the bug/feature request as i would like to see it, but cant see it being a priority for some time and understand why. However, one thing that springs to mind is this; Once Slim Devices implement the ability to play DRM files (i believe that's in the pipeline, yes?) bought from the likes of i-tunes, this feature would probably become more important as WMA and AAC are also very poor at gapless playback. I'm i right? -- dangerous_dom ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dangerous_dom's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1763 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19736 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
