2013-09-11, 16:46
Hi,
I was wondering whether true Gapless Audio Playback was going to make it into the Gotham release cycle:
As is commonly repeated, gapless playback is of particular interest to Opera/Classical music and Electronic music listeners, where albums are often mixed.
At the moment, there is always a little mini-jump that marks the spot where the tracks transition, regardless of FLAC or MP3 (I haven't tried others). In addition, this jump is particularly obvious if the tracks are split up in a .CUE file.
From previous forum postings I have picked up that gapless has always been on the cards but has never quite made it due to unloading/loading codecs,etc.
It has always struck me that gapless playback for the same codec shouldn't have this problem. And anybody who expects gapless playback from a fruit salad of codecs is being unreasonable.
Gapless playback is really important to me. I have MPD installed and running in parallel just for this purpose. And it handles gapless playback brilliantly. But it doesn't do CUE sheets. Or Album Art. Plus I just like XBMC.
So, does anybody know the state of gapless playback in Gotham, and with or without CUE sheets?
Michael
I was wondering whether true Gapless Audio Playback was going to make it into the Gotham release cycle:
As is commonly repeated, gapless playback is of particular interest to Opera/Classical music and Electronic music listeners, where albums are often mixed.
At the moment, there is always a little mini-jump that marks the spot where the tracks transition, regardless of FLAC or MP3 (I haven't tried others). In addition, this jump is particularly obvious if the tracks are split up in a .CUE file.
From previous forum postings I have picked up that gapless has always been on the cards but has never quite made it due to unloading/loading codecs,etc.
It has always struck me that gapless playback for the same codec shouldn't have this problem. And anybody who expects gapless playback from a fruit salad of codecs is being unreasonable.
Gapless playback is really important to me. I have MPD installed and running in parallel just for this purpose. And it handles gapless playback brilliantly. But it doesn't do CUE sheets. Or Album Art. Plus I just like XBMC.
So, does anybody know the state of gapless playback in Gotham, and with or without CUE sheets?
Michael