andyg;505645 Wrote:
Forgot to mention, one thing I've thought about doing is to buy the same
2 tracks that should be gapless from each of Amazon, Rhapsody, and
Napster, and others if possible. And then write up a blog post with
some analysis of the files and encoding. Then try to get it
andyg;505645 Wrote:
Forgot to mention, one thing I've thought about doing is to buy the same
2 tracks that should be gapless from each of Amazon, Rhapsody, and
Napster, and others if possible. And then write up a blog post with
some analysis of the files and encoding. Then try to get it
Unfortunately the vast majority of people couldn't care less about
gapless playback. New mp3 players are *still* coming out that don't
support gapless playback of mp3 files.
It certainly won't hurt to try to give the issue some exposure, but I
won't hold my breath.
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While doing some further digging I came across 'this thread on the
Hydrogen Audio forums'
(http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t69836.html)
that indicates at least some of the MP3s Amazon is selling were encoded
from lossy source material. And even worse, that at least some
That Hydrogen Audio thread worries me, if the quality varies so much it
will be harder to track down any problems and we'll need a larger
sampling of tracks.
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aubuti;505982 Wrote:
EDIT: and all the more reason why andyg's idea of doing some serious
testing and writing it up in a blog would be a real contribution to
music consumers. Now all we need to do is find him some spare time!
...or have him cloned :-).
After reading through some of that
FWIW, there have been people who have encountered problems with certain
tracks downloaded from eMusic. They have then downloaded the tracks
from itunes and encountered the exact same error (an error that is not
present on the physical cd). Emusic has stated that they do not encode
the music
And all I have purchased (seem) to play gapless.
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A few i got from Amazon dont play gaplessly, which annoyed me. Not just
on my SB's, but my iPod and iPhone too (which support gapless well).
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I really think sites that sell MP3 files need to list more info, such as
the source format, who encoded it, etc. For example I've bought some
files from another site several years ago and they were clearly encoded
wrong and not gapless. I recently bought an album from Napster and it
turned out
Forgot to mention, one thing I've thought about doing is to buy the same
2 tracks that should be gapless from each of Amazon, Rhapsody, and
Napster, and others if possible. And then write up a blog post with
some analysis of the files and encoding. Then try to get it some
exposure to highlight
Most of my collection is flac, but Amazon currently has a lot of MP3
albums available for US$5, and I'm tempted to pick up some albums that
I'd like to have, but not so much to pay full price for the CD. For some
of them it would matter to be gapless. I understand that MP3s encoded
with some more
All I have purchased have been Created with relatively recent versions
of lame codec.
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