(fax) musicmatch continuous rip

[Andrew Keyser]

As I said, it can play "gapless", but it's quote "gapless," as in, artificial -- potentially inaccurate removal of gaps by an algorithm. In most cases it's not noticeable, but if you're looking to get true gapless playback, in which the player is able to literally take the beginning of one file and butt it right up against the back end of another, without any ill consequences, MP3 is not the format you're looking for.
When I say fundamentally unable, that does not mean it can not be "simulated."

Andrew


----- Original Message ----
From: Graham Banting <gbanting at gmail.com>
To: faxlist at 2350.org
Sent: Thursday, January 4, 2007 9:41:49 PM
Subject: Re: (fax) musicmatch continuous rip



 
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I call bullshit on that. iTunes version 7.x 
supports gapless playback just fine.


  ----- Original Message ----- 

  From: 
  Andrew 
  Keyser 

  To: Jim Greenman ; faxlist at 2350.org 
  

  Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 7:36 
  PM

  Subject: Re: (fax) musicmatch continuous 
  rip

  


  
  Don't 
  use MP3.

Simple as that... use a program and file format that properly 
  supports "gapless" playback, such as Ogg Vorbis (if you want it compressed 
  like MP3 is) or FLAC (if you want it full quality like WAV is, at roughly half 
  the file size of WAV) for the file format, and EAC for the ripper. At your 
  option, you could use iTunes, if you want to be locked into their proprietary 
  file format kingdom. Ogg Vorbis and FLAC are both free, open source 
  codecs.

MP3, without any special extensions, is fundamentally unable to 
  play without a gap between two seperate songs and the "remove gap" features of 
  audio players is artificial and may not be entirely accurate (not removing 
  enough of the gap, or removing too much, cutting into "real" audio).
The 
  LAME MP3 encoder can encode data about the end of the track in the header so 
  that a program that understands these special instructions can accurately 
  remove any gap, but it's still just a workaround for a flaw in the way MP3 is 
  designed.

Andrew Keyser



  ----- 
  Original Message ----
From: Jim Greenman 
  <jimbogreenman at yahoo.com>
To: faxlist at 2350.org
Sent: Thursday, 
  January 4, 2007 8:01:53 AM
Subject: (fax) musicmatch continuous rip


  Whenever I try to record a CD which has continuous music, Musicmatch puts 
  a gap between the songs. 

   

  Does anyone know how to stop this from happening?

   

   

   

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