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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: More Responsive Track SwitchingRe: More Responsive Track Switching
From: blaou <blaou_at_gmx.net>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 12:47:09 +1100 Lame with --nogaps doesn't work, since the hardware has to support LAME tags (where the real tracklength would be stored). apparently, only the rio karma does... http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=27517 only the bladeenc supports true compatible gapless support, but the quality sucks.. the only solution is cuesheet support! On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 23:03:04 +0100 "Ronald Teune" <rtwolf_at_gmx.net> wrote: > Lame has a --nogaps option IIRC, perhaps that'll help. I'm not annoyed > by the microsecond gaps, though, so never tried. I also recall that > the nogaps option caused some trouble... *searches e-mails > > [quote] > I have seen that Rockbox have problem buffering with some MP3's. > Specifically, MP3's encoded in VBR with the Lame encoder and the No > gap option active. > The play back stops for about a half second every two minutes, > actually when the hard drive spin down. > [/quote] > > vbrfix was the solution here. > > Ronald > > On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 14:20:15 -0500, Ray Lambert > <listlizard_at_interthingy.net> wrote: > > I think the more important use for this is when listening to live > > music recordings or other material where there isn't supposed to > > be any gap between tracks. I listen to live recordings a lot and > > the gap is often times jarring to some degree. I've thought > > numerous times about trying to implement seamless track switching > > myself. The obvious way to fix it is to begin loading the next > > song before the current one ends, preferably before the disc spins > > down, probably reading it immediately after reading the final > > chunk of the currently playing file. I haven't looked at the code > > yet myself though so I'm not sure what the best way to implement > > this would be; but I have no doubt that it CAN be done. > > > > I'm not sure I understand why this would be valuable when track > > skipping though. I would think that you would WANT a gap then, to > > create an aural boundary between the two tracks (I know I do). > > Then again, maybe I've just misunderstood the whole discussion?? > > :) > > > > ~ray > _______________________________________________ > http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox > _______________________________________________ http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox Received on 2005-02-17 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |