Gapless MP3 players for prog delights!?!?
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Topic: Gapless MP3 players for prog delights!?!?
Posted By: The Lost Chord
Subject: Gapless MP3 players for prog delights!?!?
Date Posted: January 04 2006 at 19:22
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Where are the gapless MP3 players that blend songs together like a CD would or a vinyl??? I cannot listen to anything off of my CD player or an ipod or anything, they all put little gaps in between!!!
ANYONE recommend anythng???? OTHER THAN SPLICING i dont want one gigantic song just so they can go together. I need GAP LESS -------------  "Only the sun knew why"
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Posted By: Fitzcarraldo
Date Posted: January 04 2006 at 19:41
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(Shouldn't this be in the Tech Talk forum?) The MP3 standard does not support gapless playback by nature (unless you rip an album as one long single MP3 file) but apparently the LAME MP3 encoder enables MP3 files to be ripped so that firmware in some models of players can remove the gaps: for example, see the following thread for information on how the open source Rockbox firmware plus LAME encoder can be used to create gapless playback of MP3 files on iRiver H1xx players: http://www.misticriver.net/showthread.php?t=31543&highlight=gapless - http://www.misticriver.net/showthread.php?t=31543&highli ght=gapless Oh, and by the way, unlike MP3, the Ogg Vorbis standard does support gapless tracks inherently. If you've got an MP3 player that supports it as well as MP3, then ripping to OGG i.s.o. MP3 is one answer.
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Posted By: horza
Date Posted: January 04 2006 at 19:49
the iPod can blend songs - cant it?  or rather iTunes can and then u download to iPod ------------- Originally posted by darkshade: Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot. |
Posted By: TGElder
Date Posted: January 04 2006 at 20:17
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The Rio Karma is the only player ever designed to do this. I've had one
for a couple of years, and can verify that it plays MP3s, OGG and FLAC
gaplessly. Unfortuantly, Rio ceased to exist in the summer, though the
players can still be found for sale online. I'm too tired to describe
it right now, but the forums at http://www.riovolution.com/ contain
everything you need to know. |
Posted By: Fitzcarraldo
Date Posted: January 04 2006 at 20:36
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Yeh, if you breakout the toolbox and rubber gloves: http://gapless.itunes.wanderingfocus.com/ - http://gapless.itunes.wanderingfocus.com/ Never tried it, though. And note the caveats about playing the result on an iPod (just above "FAQs" at the bottom of the article). The following (somewhat dated) detailed article explains about gapless playback problems with MP3, and explains some of the theory behind the various codecs: http://www.pretentiousname.com/mp3players/ - http://www.pretentiousname.com/mp3players/ Note his comments about Ogg Vorbis! Obviously a Prog fan. EDIT: BTW, it also mentions the Rio Karma. But, if you are prepared to breakout the rubber gloves, rockbox will give gapless on an iRiver iH1xx if used with the aforementioned LAME MP3 encoder: http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/FeatureComparison - http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/FeatureComparison
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horza wrote:Posted By: KoS
Date Posted: May 02 2006 at 23:22
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i think you can set the gaps in the options menu of i tunes and most ripping and burning programs |
Posted By: goose
Date Posted: May 03 2006 at 04:15
| iAudio supports it natively even for MP3, if I recall correctly |