Bugzilla – Bug 1026
Implement gapless playback for MP3
Last modified: 2008-12-18 11:40:15 UTC
Probably needs both client and server changes for this. We'll need to find the LAME tag extensions for gapless playback on the server and send them to the client (since the client doesn't currently get the ID3 tag).
See http://gabriel.mp3-tech.org/mp3infotag.html for a description of the LAME INFO tag that includes padding information.
*** Bug 838 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Can we extend this feature requet to include gapless FLAC songs (w/o cuesheets) as well?
just a question: why not make it like winamp - remove silence at beginning and end of tracks, combined with pre-buffering for playback? works like a charm for me. and I doubt that too many people have mp3 gapless tags in their album rips (I havent, for example :) I don't have any idea whether that's possible or not, but it sounds like the best alternative to me.
#3: FLAC is already gapless. Bug 1434 covers the only known bug with FLAC files - please keep this bug for the mp3 implementation.
re:#3 Agreed. My bad... didn't do my homework before posting.
(In reply to comment #4) > just a question: why not make it like winamp - remove silence at beginning and > end of tracks, combined with pre-buffering for playback? Because that would remove intentional silence as well? A suggestion: implement a crossfade type of "gapless" which strips silence off the start and end during playback - that way people subscribe to the behaviour when they select "gapless" as the crossfade type and won't mind any additional silence on the start/end of a track being removed. Actually, stripping silence off the start and end of tracks would be good for all conventional types of crossfade as well - after all, you don't want to fade in, fade out or crossfade silence. Cheers, Mark
please make gapless playback of mp3s possible (lame encoded) the "other" player is already working on getting this done, plleasseee do it before they do!!!
*** Bug 3712 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
See also bug 3712
Please, Implement gapless playback for MP3 encoded with Lame. winamp and foobar support this feature perfectly. surely you guys could too. http://gabriel.mp3-tech.org/mp3infotag.html
Almost EIGHTEEN months now, any news on implementation? Many Thanks
Some useful links to the location and contents of the XING VBR Header - which is what LAME uses to store pre/post gap information. http://www.codeproject.com/audio/mpegaudioinfo.asp http://gabriel.mp3-tech.org/mp3infotag.html
There is some good discussion about this enhancement request here. http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27384
This bug is fixed in firmware sb65/tr19. It is currently undergoing internal testing. You will be notified again when it is made part of a nightly release.
Reproduced by Andy in http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32080
I'm closing this bug again, and created Bug 4750 for the specific bug mentioned in http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32080.