| I don't think disk space is a problem these days.
| The (big) advantage of one large mp3file containing the entire album (like
| AiD suggests) is that players like winamp don't delay playback when a
track
| ends and another begins. When using seperate files, Winamp checks
playtime,
| ID3-TAG and things..
That is not the gap problem. Even when using Winamps gapless plugin you get
a gap.
This is due to the encoder adding a delay in the output.
Try it, get a trance album or something rip a track in the middle of the CD
look at the first 0.5 secs in a sample editor and you'll see NO gap.
Encode the same file, decode it and then load it into the sample editor.
You'll see a gap - a quite small one at the beginning.
This gap is a pain in the arse and is THE thing I hate most about MP3. When
this problem has been sorted in LAME i will be happy. Personnaly i feel a
'fix' to this problem is long overdue.
And i don't feel it is the decoders responsibilty to remove this gap. I
haven't found a perfect plugin which achieves gapless playback.
You should also note that when you look at the beginning of a mp3 in
spectral mode the frequencies ramp up from a low frequency to the desired
one. Gapless plugins don't seem to be able to do much about this.
Dave
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