gorman;459655 Wrote: > LAME is not natively gapless. Vorbis and FLAC are. > LAME is not a format, Vorbis and FLAC are :) You're right that bog-standard mp3 is not gapless, but the LAME gapless headers are pretty well understood these days, to the point of being a standard.
> > I somehow doubt that iTunes import functions rely on LAME headers for > doing gapless on iPod. > My understanding from when iTunes/iPod started doing gapless (which was a while ago) was that iTunes parsed the LAME headers when you imported the file and then wrote it's own tags/db entries/whatever. The iPod itself wasn't reading the headers directly. Whatever it does, it works fine for me - getting that right was the last thing Apple had to do to get me to replace my Karma :) I'm _very_ sensitive to gaps/clips, so I'd notice. > > By the way, I own a iPod Touch 2G. It should be moder enough, shouldn't > it? Sure, I've used an old 5G iPod and several generations of iPhone, all work fine. I've done the conversions variously with foobar, dbPoweramp and flac2mp3 (which just pipes the output of flac to the input of lame). -- radish 'HELP ME RAISE MONEY FOR CHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH!' (HTTP://WWW.ADAMREEVE.COM/24IN24/) http://www.last.fm/user/polymeric ------------------------------------------------------------------------ radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=68009 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
