Crossfading - what can I do about that?

[Nikos Chantziaras]

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%.


>> 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.