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TBH the only thing I care for (except maybe for playlist management) is gapless playback. There's no word about it, but I constantly find out that the new playe

by p0w3n3d 9mo ago

TBH the only thing I care for (except maybe for playlist management) is gapless playback. There's no word about it, but I constantly find out that the new players do not really care about the gap, while the music I am listening to is always ripped from my personal CDs and they mostly have music continuing on two or more tracks. Why nobody cares about it? Do you know this feeling when you get towards the High Hopes on The Division Bell and there's this ugly crack in between tracks?

onli 9mo ago
My guess is not everyone is annoyed by that, or knows about the option. It was a nice surprise of qmmp, it switches to the next song without an extra pause. I use it with a winamp skin from https://archive.org/details/winampskins https://archive.org/details/winampskins, to add to the options. Not sure about streaming support, I use it with local files.
- Semaphor 9mo ago
  > My guess is not everyone is annoyed by that, or knows about the option. It depends on the genre, I’d guess. For metal, there’s rarely continuous songs, mainly sometimes intro -> 1st proper song.
  - onli 9mo ago
    Right. Though one of this intro -> 1st song transitions from a metal album (Gamma Ray, No World order) immediately pops into my head when thinking of examples where the gap was annoying. But Pink Floyds Dark Side of the Moon would be be completely destroyed by the breaks.
  - p0w3n3d 9mo ago
    maybe not metal but the whole Offspring - Americana has this thing
    - Semaphor 9mo ago
      It also happens for metal. I said "rare" ;) One might not encounter it.
      - p0w3n3d 9mo ago
        Still when listening to intro -> 1st song I have this tension in me building up, asking myself "when will the stutter come up? Is it now? Or later? Or was it there at all?". Like a torture
internet_points 9mo ago
There is a music player called Gapless that might help :) https://github.com/neithern/g4music https://github.com/neithern/g4music Also https://github.com/vicrodh/qbz https://github.com/vicrodh/qbz for Qobuz supports gapless playback

by p0w3n3d 9mo ago

onli 9mo ago

My guess is not everyone is annoyed by that, or knows about the option. It was a nice surprise of qmmp, it switches to the next song without an extra pause. I use it with a winamp skin from https://archive.org/details/winampskins https://archive.org/details/winampskins, to add to the options. Not sure about streaming support, I use it with local files.

Semaphor 9mo ago
> My guess is not everyone is annoyed by that, or knows about the option. It depends on the genre, I’d guess. For metal, there’s rarely continuous songs, mainly sometimes intro -> 1st proper song.
- onli 9mo ago
  Right. Though one of this intro -> 1st song transitions from a metal album (Gamma Ray, No World order) immediately pops into my head when thinking of examples where the gap was annoying. But Pink Floyds Dark Side of the Moon would be be completely destroyed by the breaks.
- p0w3n3d 9mo ago
  maybe not metal but the whole Offspring - Americana has this thing
  - Semaphor 9mo ago
    It also happens for metal. I said "rare" ;) One might not encounter it.
    - p0w3n3d 9mo ago
      Still when listening to intro -> 1st song I have this tension in me building up, asking myself "when will the stutter come up? Is it now? Or later? Or was it there at all?". Like a torture

internet_points 9mo ago

There is a music player called Gapless that might help :) https://github.com/neithern/g4music https://github.com/neithern/g4music Also https://github.com/vicrodh/qbz https://github.com/vicrodh/qbz for Qobuz supports gapless playback