It seems to me that, months ago, someone (might even have been me) looked into this and it's a can of worms.
There are several sources for the gap. There are several encoders of MP3s, not all support gapless in the same way, and some not at all. Older versions of encoders that now support gapless didn't at some earlier time. Some of the competitors who now support gapless do it by cheating, that is, by merely truncating silence in a fixed way. Since the definition of silence is artificially imposed rather than a reproduction of the recording, the playback will still be in some way incorrect. The fix needs both client (that is, SB) and server changes. The server is open source but the player is not. That means that someone at Slim with access to the player source and time must define an architecture for this new feature before code for the server can be defined. People with access to the client code have been busy making wireless work. Since that's been a hot topic the last 6 months, that's probably all the firmware resources Slim has tied up in that area. (myself, I could do without wireless ... I think it's a toy and no substitute for real copper ... especially since it's been a distraction for the last 6 months .... but that's just me) The player now sees none of the ID3 tags (according to Vidur), so there's no easy way to just pass the LAME gapless tags through to the player. Thus new architecture needs to be done between the player and the server ... something that needs to be done with some care. There, I think that's a (somewhat) concise summary of what I remember of the issue. There's more, of course, but I didn't want to get into details. -- Michaelwagner ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27384 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
