[Elisa] [Bug 380441] Gapless playback support

[yannssolo]

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--- Comment #10 from yannssolo  ---
This is in my opinion the most important feature to implement in order to be
considered as a true and solid media player. Some others do it, some do
not...but in any ways very important for Elisa to be adopted. Currently, i do
not because of this, deadbeef does it, and far to be perfect but better for 2
things : gapless and much better cover art search.

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[Elisa] [Bug 380441] Gapless playback support

[Jack Hill]

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--- Comment #9 from Jack Hill  ---
*** Bug 476681 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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[Elisa] [Bug 380441] Gapless playback support

[Jack Hill]

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--- Comment #8 from Jack Hill  ---
*** Bug 474595 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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[Elisa] [Bug 380441] Gapless playback support

[Jack Hill]

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--- Comment #7 from Jack Hill  ---
BTW gapless support may appear at some point in the VLC 4 timeline
(https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/merge_requests/94). But then there is
not really any expected release date for VLC 4.0, and the comments on that MR
suggest that the feature may end up being pushed into a later version of VLC
anyway.

But hopefully with Qt6 using ffmpeg as the default multimedia backend we can
drop the VLC backend and then gapless can be implemented as two overlapping
media players, as you suggested.

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[Elisa] [Bug 380441] Gapless playback support

[Felix Ernst]

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--- Comment #6 from Felix Ernst  ---
Some information:

So there are two backends to make sure that Elisa can play music on any
platform.

I wanted to try to quickly exchange the media player with one that has already
loaded the next song. I started implementing this in the QMediaPlayer backend
because I thought that one was used on Linux. However, I quickly noticed that
my development setup uses the libvlc backend. So I looked if I could implement
it for the libvlc backend instead.

If you use the original VLC media player application to play a music playlist
there still is a gap between songs. That makes me think that if even VLC
doesn’t manage to implement gapless playback with their own library it probably
isn’t really possible to have gapless playback using their library.

Nevertheless, I looked a bit at the libvlc API to see if there is anything but
it didn’t seem to me like the quickly exchanging would be possible there.

Just now I had the idea of searching for “vlc gapless playback” and found
https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=144695.

There they confirm my suspicions: “It’s pretty clear (from the developer
comments on the problem) that implementing gapless support continues to be
incredibly difficult and that it presents some complex problems in a
multithreaded environment.”

So yea, it seems really hard to implement this even if one has months of time
and the necessary funding at hand. And even if it was fixed for the libvlc
backend it wouldn’t be fixed for the other backend yet.

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[Elisa] [Bug 380441] Gapless playback support

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[Elisa] [Bug 380441] Gapless playback support

[ebray187]

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--- Comment #5 from ebray187  ---
It's been 5 years since this bug was created, but I don't lose hope that one
day someone with the necessary knowledge will solve it. In any case, I find it
curious that you can read on the Elisa Wiki in the Goals section that the
development is "Focused on music player (managing your music collection is not
a development priority)"¹; but you indeed can manage a music library, can
generate backgrounds with a nice blur effect from the cover art, and other
miscellaneous stuff like song ratings, etc. but can't properly play an album
like The Dark Side of the Moon (1973) in 2022.
Is there any update on this?
Anyway, thanks for all the work!

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[Elisa] [Bug 380441] Gapless playback support

[Chris Young]

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[elisa] [Bug 380441] Gapless playback support

[Justin Zobel]

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[elisa] [Bug 380441] Gapless playback support

[Paul Konecny]

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--- Comment #4 from Paul Konecny  ---
Thanks! If there's something (except for programming unfortunately) I can help
you with, please let me know.

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[elisa] [Bug 380441] Gapless playback support

[Matthieu Gallien]

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--- Comment #3 from Matthieu Gallien  ---
https://phabricator.kde.org/T7531 has been created to not forget your feature
request.
Sorry for the waiting time but we keep an eye on this.

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[elisa] [Bug 380441] Gapless playback support

[Paul Konecny]

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--- Comment #2 from Paul Konecny  ---
I'd love to but unfortunately I haven't got any programming skills whatsoever.
Best I can do is report bugs and nice-to-haves I guess. Anyway Elisa looks very
promising! Thanks for your efforts!

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[elisa] [Bug 380441] Gapless playback support

[Matthieu Gallien]

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--- Comment #1 from Matthieu Gallien  ---
Hello, currently there its no support for custom audio settings like gapless
playing or cross fade.
Before working on this, I will implement support for ReplayGain. So, you have
to be patient our do it yourself. I will be happy to help you in this case.

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