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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Continuous playbackRe: Continuous playback
From: Eugenio Perea <eugenio_at_perea.com>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 19:36:03 -0500 Please, somebody tell me there's another way! :) I also use EAC. I've already encoded over 3,000 songs directly to mp3, but it is possible to extract directly to wav. Perhaps -r3mix and -nogap can be used together, like Linux options? Anyway, it is obvious I need to read up on the following: -LAME options -Cue Sheets and their uses -VBR headers Any pointers? Or should I just Google it? Cheers, Eugenio Andreas Stemmer wrote: >>Linus, >> >>Could you point out where I can find more documentation on this? I >>listen to a lot of progressive music and the gaps, however small, can >>really disrupt my listening experience. I use LAME with the r3mix >>options for encoding. > > > I'm not Linus, but this is the way it worked for me: > if you encode each track on its own, the mp3 encoder adds some silence > at the beginning of the first frame and at the end of the last frame. > This causes the small gaps you hear. To avoid this, you can use the > -nogap option of lame. I use Exact Audio Copy to rip my cds and EAC > passes the wav-files directly to the LAME encoder, that's why the -nogap > option won't work here. > Instead I do the following: I extract the whole cd as one big file and > get one big mp3-file plus a cue-sheet for the title information (EAC > does this all). Because my mp3s are vbr, I usually correct the > vbr-header to make sure I have correct seeking information (with vbrfix > or Mp3TagStudio). I don't know why, but sometimes, lame created wrong > vbr-headers for me. The I use a tool called MusiCutter to split the big > mp3 at frame boundaries according to the cue sheets. You simply open the > mp3 and the cue sheet and MusiCutter does the rest, including correct > tagging. Now you have one mp3 for each track which fit together > perfectly. Another vbrfix for all the new mp3s makes sure to have > corrected seek information for the cutted files. > Sounds a bit complicated, but it isn't. All programs are freeware. > > BTW: One question: Rockbox plays these files gapless because it puts the > frames together and decodes afterwards, but WinAmp and other Windows MP3 > players decode the files and put them together after decoding which > produces gaps again. Does anybody know a MP3 player for windows which > does it the same smart way as rockbox? > > Andreas Stemmer > > > Received on 2003-05-29 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |