Gapless playback

[Jeff Mitchell]

Paulo Vinícius Vitto Ruthes wrote:
> Hi,
>
> First just say that amarok keeps getting better and better. I'm really 
> exptecting amarok2 and see the new vision in the interface.
>
> Moving on, I might sound stupid here but how can I have a really gapless 
> playback? I use xine as the backend and I have no crossfading enabled with a 
> gap of 0ms. But it still gives me a fraction of second between songs. Am I 
> wrong or wasn't it supposed to have NO gap at all?
>
> Previously I thought it was because of my old computer but now I'm on a 
> relative fast machine (X2 3800+, 1GB RAM) and it still happens.
>   
Paulo--

This only works with relatively recent versions of xine (I think 1.1.4 
or higher, but you should really be running 1.1.7 if at all possible), 
and it only works on some music formats (I don't know the specifics  of 
which formats, perhaps someone else can respond that does).

--Jeff