Gapless playback

[Jeff Mitchell]

On Sunday 01 July 2007, Ben Aceler wrote:
> В сообщении от 1 июля 2007 Reigo Reinmets написал(a):
> > Vodka + "su -" = Cute Suprises in the morning!
> >
> > Anyway, I would actualy suggest you to try enableing the crossfading
> > with 250ms time... This should force Amarok to try opening the song a
> > bit earlier and so short fading shouldn't affect much of the listening
> > pleasure.
> >
> > Though, i'm not an expert, but Guys, saying that mp3 can't be gapless
> > because of the format is a bit bs :) my winamp does it wihtout a problem
> > since... mm... 2001 maybe? I Do understand the techincal difficulties in
> > Amarok though, as far as i can remember each song got his own proccess
> > of Xine? no? Maybe if the engine would pre-fetch the next song and when
> > the right time arrives, only MyEngine.Play(); or smth is issued to the
> > engine? Haven't looked into Amarok's source almost 2 years so, can't be
> > sure though... Probably all crap text so just ignore me :)
>
> Cause WinAmp knows about mp3 issues and cut the silence. WMP also do so.

It may be something that could be done as a special case for MP3 AFAIK but 
that'd have to be a Xine fix, not an Amarok one.

--Jeff