Re: [Banshee-List] Support for CUE files

["Andrew Conkling" <andrew conkling gmail com>]

On 11/28/06, Siarhei Rachytski <grayyoga gmail com> wrote:
> So is it possible to separate one big file into some small tracks and
> playback them in a gapless fashion? I though there was some
> limitations of the mp3 format, but it was just my thoughs, not yet
> proved. Something like "in a frame based format you should always play
> the entire frame, even if it's the last frame of the file and contains
> mostly silence ". Am I right about this? And is there a workaround for
> a smooth playback without gaps? Maybe another format, maybe something
> else...

Ogg Vorbis supports this much better. When possible, use it. (Of
course, ironically, RB/Banshee and my music player don't support
gapless playback... but that's a different story. And many players
don't support these formats; but more do, and there's always the
Rockbox firmware for many popular players....

Anyhow, if you're stuck with MP3 for whatever reason, there are
"workarounds", but it's up to the player at that point. I know XMMS
has a plugin for it, but I hate that program. MPD also works, IIRC.
Beyond that, I'm not sure; I avoid MP3s as much as possible.

HTH,
Andrew


> On 11/29/06, Andrew Conkling <andrew conkling gmail com> wrote:
> > On 11/28/06, Siarhei Rachytski <grayyoga gmail com> wrote:
> > > I like to listen long dj-sets and would like to be able to navigate
> > > through the list of songs without splitting one big file into smaller
> > > pieces, 'cause this splitting always introduce clicks at the border of
> > > the files(so annoying :) ).
> >
> > That's a band-aid fix for the lack of support for gapless playback in
> > music players. Separating tracks is probably the better way to go if
> > that's how they are on the CD.
> >
> >
> > > On 11/28/06, Andrew Conkling <andrew conkling gmail com> wrote:
> > > > On 11/28/06, Siarhei Rachytski <grayyoga gmail com> wrote:
> > > > > And by the way, what software under Linux
> > > > > should I use to grab the entire music disk as a single file + *.cue
> > > > > file?
> > > >
> > > > Not to be obtuse, but why would you want to?
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