Ben Sandee;136269 Wrote: > On 9/14/06, CatBus <CatBus.2e56gn1158266401 (AT) no-mx (DOT) > forums.slimdevices.com> > wrote: > > > > Also, I fully realize that gap-hating is subjective, although part > of > > it may be musical preference. Many classical CDs separate one > musical > > piece into multiple tracks (for movements, etc). Perhaps you would > > feel more rage if the gaps happened several times DURING a song, > rather > > than between songs? > > > It probably would -- it might even drive me to switch to FLAC. :-) > > Ben
Touché! Well, it certainly did drive me to Vorbis, and I have no complaints there. I guess I can't argue any further on someone else's behalf. My points were that: 1) Rational people (not me) can choose the MP3 format (and smart ones use LAME) 2) Rational people (including me) can see gapless playback as a must-have feature 3) There's no reason why a person would not be in groups 1 and 2 at the same time Your solution for #3 is that they should transcode, and that solution does in fact work. But it's not pain-free (and neither is adding features to SqueezeBox firmware, I'll note). In the open-source world, there would be an easy way to see which pain was greater: if the pain of adding a feature was less than the pain of transcoding, storing and maintaining multiple copies of your music collection, a user would step up and write the code. If writing the code was more painful, then the user would just transcode. But as it stands, the user has no power to change the code, so he assumes the code change must be easier. The coder has no power to transcode the user's collection, so he assumes that must be easier. The grass is always greener, and all that ;) Incidentally, can't SlimServer to MP3-to-PCM on-the-fly transcoding? Isn't that how Vorbis is handled in the current version? Wouldn't that make everything gapless and wonderful for everyone? -- CatBus ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CatBus's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7461 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27384 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
