Triode wrote: > I've just posted 2 addition test binaries - one for 32bit intel and one > for armv6 hard float (pi) which include new gapless capability. I would > be grateful for a few people to test then prior to me making this the > next beta which replaces the current downloads. > > This is intended to support: > - gapless playback of pcm, flac, vorbis > - gapless playback of mp3 when the lame Xing/Info header is present with > gapless information > - gapless playback of mp4 aac files when the iTunes iTunSMPB tag is > present and contains gapless information > > Gapless support of mp3 and mp4 is new. Gapless support of flac has been > improved as previously it was not perfect. > > Would be interested in feedback on this and whether it has broken > anything else as there has been changes to how the end of stream are > handled for all codecs. > > [these binaries also include the icy-meta support for remote stream > discussed previously, if people want to test that too..]
Triode, I have now had time to test this, and firstly I'd like to say many thanks!! I havent' had the chance to test gapless FLAC or MP4, but importantly (to me), I have had a chance to test gapless MP3. All my library is ripped with LAME, so I guess all my music will have the required headers. From an MP3 gapless POV, I can't say I can fault it (I did hear a *tiny* pop, but only the once, and couldn't reproduce it, when it was switching from the end of one track to the next). I would say the gapless part is all good :) (when I switch my library to FLAC, I presume that'll be equally good). As an aside, I have had some problems with sync, which was the same in the last version. FYI, I am running SC7.3.3 on Ubuntu 8.04LTS server (Kernal 2.6.24-34), and have Squeezelite running on a Kubuntu 12.04 (Kernel 3.2.0-24) laptop over wireless, syncing with a wired Squeezebox2. From my testing, I have conculded: 1. With the SB and SL "on", when you hit play on a new track (on the SB or Squeezecentre), both play and in perfect sync (like the hardware players do) 2. Whilst playing, if you hit pause, and then resume, the sync is kept. 3. If you skip to another track, or fast-forward/re-wind in track, the sync is out by (in audio terms) quite a bit, possibly nearly a second out, which sounds awful. However, after about 5 seconds, it gets back in sync. 4. Transistions from one song to another, if they were pre-determined to follow each other (like in an album or a playlist), work fine. Overall, it's a great effort, and the syncing, isn't much of "deal-breaker", as once it's syncd, it stays in sync if you leave it alone, which when I have multiple players syncd, is what I tend to do (set it playing, and wander around the house/at parties etc., where you tend not to interact with it much, if at all). It reminds me of the SlimServer in the early days, when the hardware players behaved like this. SlimDevices and then Logitech made some good progress in this area in I think 7.3.0, 7.3.2 and they nailed it in 7.3.3 (hence why I'm still on it - found no reason to move up (that and it was the last version of SC in the Ubuntu Repos and didn't get auto-replaced with SBS)). Now the hardware players are pretty much perfect in all cases wirth regards to sync (so I'm being very fussy in my comparrisons! ;) :) ). Great effort thanks very much. Now I just need the Pi people to solve the USB problems and I can use this for my headless sync'd music in the rooms I don't already have a SB, and don't need/want an interface. I hope this is useful to you? Cheers, Matt :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mutant_matt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37288 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97046 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
