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Subject: Re: Crossfading - what can I do about that?
From: Jeff Mitchell <mitchell () kde ! org>
Date: 2010-08-30 17:19:33
Message-ID: 4C7BE825.7020404 () kde ! org
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On 8/30/2010 12:58 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 08/30/2010 07:49 PM, Jeff Mitchell wrote:
>> On 8/30/2010 8:10 AM, Thomas Lübking wrote:
>>> Am Monday 30 August 2010 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras:
>>>> It does *not* work with Ogg Vorbis. It never did. It doesn't work with
>>>> *any* format.
>>
>> Right, so, one thing to keep in mind is that it's always been
>> engine-dependent. Amarok supports it if the engine supports it.
>> Different engines may have different bugs/features regarding gapless --
>> that was true in the 1.4 days and still true with Phonon AFAIK.
>
> Doesn't work with Xine and neither with VCL backends :-/ Last time I
> tried GStreamer, I remember it worked fine there.
>
> The Xine devs assured everyone asking about it that Xine supports
> gapless 100%.
Entirely possible the weak link is Phonon, then.
>>> have no relevant Vorbis, but (just tested) it does work with FLAC - and
>>> actually it does (in a hackish way) work with even mp3, however afaics
>>> (either) _only_ with the xine backend :-( - gstreamer stopped working at all -
>>> and i don't care :-) and there's a minor gap with vlc and a bigger one with
>>> the mplayer backend -> bug phonon
>>
>> You're right about MP3/Xine...Xine actually hacked together fake pseudo
>> gapless support for MP3 but from what I know it was always rather hacky.
>
> MP3s encoded with LAME as opposed to other encoders are supposed to be
> perfectly able to have gapless support; not sure if Xine implements this
> LAME standard though. I don't have many MP3s to test with. The vast
> majority (>90%) of my music is Vorbis.
Xine does support it. Also keep in mind that "perfectly able" means "it
mostly works" but it's still not true gapless. :-)
--Jeff
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