>________________________________ > From: Scott R. Looney <[email protected]> >To: Hans-Christoph Steiner <[email protected]> >Cc: pd-list <[email protected]> >Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 2:32 PM >Subject: Re: [PD] using puredata to play playlist gapless > > >there's an interesting tool that game audio folks use that does some clever >prestidigitation when encoding an MP3 and generates a gapless version. it runs >on a PC, but can run under Wine pretty easily. requires old fashioned WAV >files for input. here's the link. the page also has a lot of detailed >information on why MP3s have this issue and how the tools solves this problem:
Well, if you require WAV for input you might as well convert to OGG which AFAICT doesn't suffer from this problem. -Jonathan > > >http://www.compuphase.com/mp3/mp3loops.htm > > > >good luck! > > >scott > > > >On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>Pd will play all files gapless, according to their file length. The 'gap' >>problem mostly refers to the MP3 format, which encodes the audio in fixed >>frame length. So if your song doesn't fit neatly into a multiple of the fixed >>frame length, you get a gap, i.e. the leftover part of the last frame is >>filled with silence. That's a problem with the MP3 format that basically all >>other file formats don't have. >> >>.hc >> >> >>On 02/19/2013 12:47 PM, Rick T wrote: >>> Yes I do have the ability to change the playlist file to a text file >>> and alter it how it looks. The thing I'm looking for is an example of >>> gapless playing. I couldn't find one doing google search. >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:53 AM, Roman Haefeli <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> On Die, 2013-02-19 at 00:31 -1000, Rick T wrote: >>>>> Greetings All >>>>> >>>>> I have a playlist file (songs.pls) that I would like to play gapless >>>>> (without the 1 second pause between tracks) can puredata due this if so is >>>>> there and example? >>>> >>>> It sounds doable to me. I'd do it with [textfile] reading your playlist >>>> which passes each line (after some message mangling) to a [readsf~]. My >>>> only concern is the chosen file format '.pls'. Pd (natively) is pretty >>>> bad in string parsing. If you could use your own format it would make >>>> things a lot easier. I don't know if you have any constraints there. >>>> >>>> The simplest format of such a text file might be as an example: >>>> >>>> filename1.wav >>>> filename2.wav >>>> whateverfile.wav >>>> >>>> >>>> Roman >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> [email protected] mailing list >>>> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> >>>> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> [email protected] mailing list >>> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> >>> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list >>> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>[email protected] mailing list >>UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> >>http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list >> > >_______________________________________________ >[email protected] mailing list >UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> >http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
