On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 18:50:45 -0800, Phil Karn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can somebody give me some background on gapless playback? I don't > understand why it's a big problem.
I'll try in a non technical way. The mp3 container has to be specific size increments, so you end up with empty data at the end of most tracks. The hack to make mp3 gapless is just that - a hack, it steals bits from the next song during encode to make the file be the perfect size to not have empty filler. With mp3's encoded this way, some players can achieve gapless with mp3, but it's a hack since it takes some bits from the next track to do so. There is some talk of putting mp3 in an mpeg4 container, which would allow "true" gapless (no theft of bits needed) but I don't know if players will ever support. I think winamp already does, but I think they are one of the only ones. -- http://mpeters.us/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
