tpeng
join:2003-01-30
Forest Hills, NY | reply to MsTerra
Re: iPod *Gapless Playback? said by MsTerra:Those of you who've tried it, were the albums you're using originally mastered for the music to run continuously from track to track? If not, that may be where you're having "problems". The original mastering shouldn't be an issue - gapless playback is (well, it should be) based on an algorithm to strip padding from the last audio frame past the end of the track (and not add the CD-standard 2 seconds of silence). It should not require file metadata that tells it where the track ends within the last frame, because even though that would be the best "perfect" solution, most legacy files won't have that metadata (and formats may not even support it).
Perhaps it took Apple this long to incorporate gapless playback because they wanted it to be automatic and work seamlessly across legacy and non-iTunes tracks... but in the end they settled on the per-file "flag" because there was no other way around it. Gapless has been available on iPods if you use 3rd party software, and is implemented in a similar way. |
