oreillymj;163738 Wrote: > For people who don't like gaps, the is also the option of enabling > cross-fading. > 1) I don't think crossfading works when streaming to a non-slim client. 2) For most people interested in gapless playback it's because the music they're listening to is desgined to be seamless. Having a crossfade added artificially is, IMHO, even worse than a gap as it will mess up a number of seconds of music around the transition.
> > Now I haven't done extensive testing, but I would expect there to be > some gapless logic in the server, becuase gapless should only kick > between track A and B if ... > > A & B have Lame gapless header info stored in the header frames. > > and > > B is the track after A on the same album by the same artist. > > Otherwise just x-fade. > > Only the server could know while playing track A what track B is in > time to send the player some sort of flag to say that the next song > should be played gaplessly if possible. Like I said before, I'm 99% sure that there's no logic to parse LAME headers in the server. Likewise, remember that there's nothing special about a gapless track - all Vorbis, FLAC and WAV tracks are gapless by definition - the issue with MP3 is one of artificial gaps added due to incomplete frames at the end of the file. There's a plugin out there now which will disable crossfade if the second of your criteria is matched, but there's no real way to analyse a track and determine whether it's part of a gapless album or not (which is why iTunes recently added a tag for that - the only effect that tag has is to disable crossfade). -- radish ------------------------------------------------------------------------ radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30753 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
