radish;460176 Wrote: > > 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. >
This is true. When Apple first released the iPod/iTunes that supported gapless playback, everybody was skeptical. There was a thread at hydrogen audio where they did some comprehensive (if you are familiar with the HA forums, you know what I mean :-) analysis to prove that the playback was indeed gapless. It proved to be so. There is one bug however - if you stop playback in the middle of a song or fast forward/advance to another part of a song, there will be a glitch in the transition to the next track. This is what threw a lot of people off in the beginning because you would tend to advance to the end of the track to test gapless rather than let it play through. I don't know if they fixed with the iPods > 5G. Interestingly enough, SlimDevices introduced support for gapless playback of LAME mp3s right around the same time. -- maggior Rich --------- Setup: 2 SB3s, 3 Booms, 1 duet, 1 receiver. SuSE 11.0 Server running SqueezeCenter 7.3.3, MusicIP, and SqueezeSlave. Current library stats: 27,698 songs, 2,304 albums, 439 artists. http://www.last.fm/user/maggior Looking forward to new Porcupine Tree, Megadeth, Alice in Chains, and The Beatles Box set. September will be an expensive month :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ maggior's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9080 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=68009 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
