Hello, everyone here
I\'ve heard that Amarok 1.4 beta-3 provide support for gapless playback, which really thrilled me. And I can\'t wait to grab the beta version ( by Gentoo\'s portage ),
of course, along with the new version of xine-lib 1.1.1. I would really like to say \"thank you\" for the developer of both Amarok and Xine-lib.
But when I just give a try to a loop mp3 file ( with xine-engine, yes ), which work smoothly on my friend\'s foobar 2000, it still leave a gap about 0.1 second when loop back to the start of the file. I even tried to upgrade xine-lib to 1.1.2-pre2, but still with no luck.
BTW, I use a old machine, Pentium3 500MHz with a Yamaha OPL3-SA2 sound card to run Amarok ( yeah, I know it\'s old, but it even still working with XGL. ).
So, I would like to ask, what should I check and what should I do if I want to gapless playback just like the official page said. Any suggestion is welcomed. Yet thank you all again.

true gapless is a little misleading - it works perfectly for file formats other than mp3, but the way mp3s are written, there\'s always the potential for a small gap at the end of a track.

Thanks for the reply.

I asked my friend to play the file by foobar 2000, and it seems well encoded ( by lame ) and smoothly loop back with no gap I can hear. But not the same in amarok. And I gave a try to XMMS-crossfade plugin yesterday. It also work for the same file

But I really enjoy the way amarok works. So I would need any further suggestios. And my friend encode the same file( from AIFF ) into OGG and MPC format. These files are also working for him, but not for me.:silly: Gee, I wish I can know what\'s wrong.

Probably it is just an issue of your computer being slow then. Or because your looping the file... to test the gapless stuff I used live albums.

No, I doubt it's because his computer is slow...  I run amaroK on an Athlon 64 2800+, and I hear gaps when playing back DJ mixes that are encoded in mp3.  When playing back the same albums encoded in ogg or flac, the playback is gapless, but the last few milliseconds are cut off... (engine is xine 1.1.1)

MP3s aren't gapless guys... they have some sort of padding.  The Rio Karma handled it nicely though