Gaplessness....

[MarmiteSandwich]

(21-09-2021 12:03)simbun Wrote:  Lossy support is a nightmare; MP3 with ID3v2.3 is probably best supported, but it's horrible, everything else I've had problems with.

It's good to know I'm not the only one who has these problems.

(21-09-2021 12:03)simbun Wrote:  Are you tied to iTunes, and do you have lossless versions of those lossy AAC files you have?

Not tied to iTunes, but that's what the 1000 or so CDs/flac downloads were encoded with.

(21-09-2021 12:03)simbun Wrote:  A simpler option would/should be OGG Vorbis as gapless playback is built into the spec, but it's not supported by iTunes.

I would switch to another format, but it would mean re-ripping everything. Then there is the question of which player will work with it.

(21-09-2021 12:03)simbun Wrote:  At the end of the day you'll have to try them all (MP3, AAC, Vorbis) with each hardware/software player you have, to work out what's best for you.

I copy the master library to my phone, the car and a second pi/mpd, so I need the solution to work across all of these. I have found that flac works in all cases (in iTunes' m4a wrapper), so I am settled on just re-ripping those albums where this problem presents itself. I probably don't have enough space to re-rip everything in flac, apart from the work in updating metadata to my standards. It doesn't seem to be all albums that are affected, even if they have tracks which segue. Probably just a function of how many null samples there happen to be at the beginning/end of a track.

I was just hoping I could avoid re-ripping by running some kind of utility on all my aac files to add/remove the necessary tags which show the relevant length/null information. The iTunSMPB tag is definitely there, the question is, what other tags are needed for players/software such as mpd to drop the nulls successfully?

Hopefully,
Marmite