This was a most welcome development, Rob, thanks a lot! Since I encode everything using Lame VBR, this fix took care of a nuisance. MAD is as musical and stable as it ever was - I saw no bugs in this pre1 build. I also noticed the DLL is some 40 KB shorter too - I wonder what more improvements were made to the code :) I take the opportunity to focus on one of my most disturbing problems regarding mp3 playing, which is gapless playing across mp3 tracks. I have tried all the solutions available for Winamp and I was not satisfied at all with any of these. Has anybody come across an optimal solution specifically for use with MAD ? I suspect that existing gapless plugins are written for the default winamp decoder so they'd in principle fail to operate properly with MAD. If this is the case can we hope in the future for some solution for gapless playing through MAD? Thank you for all your efforts and have a happy and musical Easter :)
On Sunday, April 08, 2001, 5:01:55 AM, you wrote:
DD> I take the opportunity to focus on one of my most disturbing DD> problems regarding mp3 playing, which is gapless playing across DD> mp3 tracks. I have tried all the solutions available for Winamp DD> and I was not satisfied at all with any of these. Has anybody come DD> across an optimal solution specifically for use with MAD ? I DD> suspect that existing gapless plugins are written for the default DD> winamp decoder so they'd in principle fail to operate properly DD> with MAD. If this is the case can we hope in the future for some DD> solution for gapless playing through MAD? Thank you for all your DD> efforts and have a happy and musical Easter :)
The absolute best gapless and crossfading plugin that I have found for WinAMP is the SQRsoft ACF plugin. It's completely compatible with MAD. I own and have encoded Paul van Dyk's "Out There and Back" - all the tracks on CD #1 seamlessly fade into one another, even when split into seperate MP3s, using ACF's GapKiller.
http://sqrsoft.audiogalaxy.com/en/acf.html
Rgds Dean-Ryan Stone www.dhryland.com
How about a plugin to add gaps (for minidisc recording....which needs a 2sec or more gap to add a track mark).
G.
Dean-Ryan Stone wrote:
On Sunday, April 08, 2001, 5:01:55 AM, you wrote:
DD> I take the opportunity to focus on one of my most disturbing DD> problems regarding mp3 playing, which is gapless playing across DD> mp3 tracks. I have tried all the solutions available for Winamp DD> and I was not satisfied at all with any of these. Has anybody come DD> across an optimal solution specifically for use with MAD ? I DD> suspect that existing gapless plugins are written for the default DD> winamp decoder so they'd in principle fail to operate properly DD> with MAD. If this is the case can we hope in the future for some DD> solution for gapless playing through MAD? Thank you for all your DD> efforts and have a happy and musical Easter :)
The absolute best gapless and crossfading plugin that I have found for WinAMP is the SQRsoft ACF plugin. It's completely compatible with MAD. I own and have encoded Paul van Dyk's "Out There and Back" - all the tracks on CD #1 seamlessly fade into one another, even when split into seperate MP3s, using ACF's GapKiller.
http://sqrsoft.audiogalaxy.com/en/acf.html
Rgds Dean-Ryan Stone www.dhryland.com
On Sunday, April 08, 2001, 11:44:15 AM, you wrote:
G> How about a plugin to add gaps (for minidisc recording....which needs a G> 2sec or more gap to add a track mark).
That may be a *little* harder to find!
Rgds Dean-Ryan Stone www.dhryland.com
Got the source for the crossover plugin? It just has to add a pause....
G.
Dean-Ryan Stone wrote:
On Sunday, April 08, 2001, 11:44:15 AM, you wrote:
G> How about a plugin to add gaps (for minidisc recording....which needs a G> 2sec or more gap to add a track mark).
That may be a *little* harder to find!
Rgds Dean-Ryan Stone www.dhryland.com
On Sunday, April 08, 2001, 1:39:24 PM, you wrote:
G> Got the source for the crossover plugin? It just has to add a pause....
Nope. I think you'll need to visit the homepage and ask the author for this feature..
Rgds Dean-Ryan Stone www.dhryland.com
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