------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
shlomomofo Wrote: > i registered just to post this message... > > squeezebox looks awesome, but the lack of gapless mp3 playback is a > dealbreaker for me, and probably for a lot of other people too. i > think more people use lame mp3 than either ogg or flac, even though > those formats are superior in terms of quality. > > all lame mp3s have tags to make gapless playback posssible, for > example: > enc_delay = 576 > enc_padding = 1812 > mp3_accurate_length = yes > > foobar2000 is able to do perfect gapless playback using this info. i > have about 120 gigs of music, mostly in lame mp3. i was all set to get > a squeezebox, until i discovered it couldn't do gapless mp3. hopefully > this gets fixed soon. everything else about the slimserver/squeezebox > setup is really sweet. > > btw, there's probably way more views than votes because prospective > buyers look here to find that squeezebox can't play their "dark side of > the moon" mp3s gaplessly, and then they move on. I can see where you are coming from, it's one of my biggest pet hates. But can you name a device in the same league as the SB3 that can? Not even the latest almighty Ipod cant do it -at all-. The problem is the MP3 format (and WMA/AAC for that matter), not the Squeezebox. Foobar does it well with a clever bit of cross fading 'workaround', which the SB3 could do with an update to Slimserver. But if you have ripped your MP3's using a later version of LAME, without the padding frames that historically have always been added to MP3's, you should find you get pretty good gapless playback. It's not 100% perfect, but nothing will be if people insist on sticking with MP3. However, i will say that i firmly believe companies like Slim Devices do need to take this more seriously. People around here already have one and not many people around here wont be buying one, because like you say, they find out MP3 gapless playback it not very good and move on. The number of people who really want a good gapless playback solution for MP3's are vastly underestimated It's al very well for people like me to say use a better format, but many people have massive librarys of existing MP3's they need gapless playback for. Really though, you are missing out. Unless you have stupid amounts of cash to play with and buy a Sono's, don't be put off buying a SB3. -- 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
