hello, i noticed that when i play flac files with xmms there is a gap between tracks, even on a continuous cd. is this supposed to happen? i thought that the file format was suppose to allow continuous playback. my first thoughts were that the program i used to rip (cdparanoia) was to blame. i uncompressed the flac to wav and spliced it together only find it playing correctly. my next intuition was that it had something to do with the id3v2 tags that i have on the flac files. i stripped the flags off the files and tried playing it again, only get the same interruption between tracks. any insights would be appreciated. ben
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 06:05:40PM -0500, benny k. wrote:> i noticed that when i play flac files with xmms there is a gap between > tracks, even on a continuous cd. is this supposed to happen? i thought that > the file format was suppose to allow continuous playback. > > my first thoughts were that the program i used to rip (cdparanoia) was to > blame. i uncompressed the flac to wav and spliced it together only find it > playing correctly. > > > my next intuition was that it had something to do with the id3v2 tags that i > have on the flac files. i stripped the flags off the files and tried playing > it again, only get the same interruption between tracks. > > any insights would be appreciated.Perhaps the gap is caused by computational delay and/or buffering within the player program? Were both WAV files at the same sample rate, size, etc.? -- - mdz
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 06:05:40PM -0500, benny k. wrote:> i noticed that when i play flac files with xmms there is a gap between > tracks, even on a continuous cd. is this supposed to happen? i thought that > the file format was suppose to allow continuous playback.Try the XMMS crossfade (i.e. continuous) output plugin before going further[1]. XMMS is not a 'gapless' player: it will not read ahead output to maintain a continuous stream. The crossfade plugin fixes this. I suspect that there's some overhead involved in the FLAC plugin, which is what is causing XMMS to skip when you go to the next track. (There's overhead in the WAV loader too, but probably far less.) 1. http://www.netcologne.de/~nc-eisenlpe2/xmms-crossfade/ -- #ozone/algorithm <ozone@algorithm.com.au> - trust.in.love.to.save
ah, yes that works, thanx. ben On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 03:09:09PM +1100, Andre Pang wrote:> On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 06:05:40PM -0500, benny k. wrote: > > > i noticed that when i play flac files with xmms there is a gap between > > tracks, even on a continuous cd. is this supposed to happen? i thought that > > the file format was suppose to allow continuous playback. > > Try the XMMS crossfade (i.e. continuous) output plugin before > going further[1]. XMMS is not a 'gapless' player: it will not > read ahead output to maintain a continuous stream. The crossfade > plugin fixes this. I suspect that there's some overhead involved > in the FLAC plugin, which is what is causing XMMS to skip when > you go to the next track. (There's overhead in the WAV loader > too, but probably far less.) > > 1. http://www.netcologne.de/~nc-eisenlpe2/xmms-crossfade/ > > > -- > #ozone/algorithm <ozone@algorithm.com.au> - trust.in.love.to.save > > _______________________________________________ > Flac-dev mailing list > Flac-dev@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flac-dev