I am enjoying Amarok as a player, with this being the only material exception.  I am looking for gapless playback of FLAC files particularly.  I am using the xine engine, but would switch to another engine for gapless playback, as long as I don't lose overall sound quality.

If I should enter feature requests somewhere else, please let me know.  The forum description seemed to indicate this was the place.

It is allready true gapless for me with flac-files and xine so something is wrong with your setup.

How do you have Amarok configured to achieve this? 

I have Amarok Playback set for no Crossfading and no Fadeout, which didn't work.  I tried activating Crossfading with the lowest possible time interval and that produced loud clicks in between tracks.

Not sure this is relevant, but I have xine configured with alsa, and I have alsa configured to upsample from 44100 to 48000.

Are you sure your mp3's are gapless? many encoders pad silence to fill the last frame (iirc) - anyway, make sure your files are in fact gapless, I have no problem either.

And why do you resample? Your music most certainly 44.1KHz, and you soundcard / reciever can handle that perfectly... Resampling only lowers quality.

The upsampling discussion has been moved to http://amarok.kde.org/forum/index.php/topic,14732.msg20669.html.

At least change the subject if you start going off-topic.

As currently truncated, the progress of this thread isn't clear.  Here is a wrap-up post to remedy that.

I'm using FLAC files and they are gapless.  I can play them gapless on my iRiver and my PC with foobar2k.  So I do not believe gapless files are an issue.

An earlier poster suggested CPU may be the culprit and I think they are right.  There are three primary aspects to the CPU consumption for me I think:
* I am running on an old Linux machine
* Amarok's CPU utilization spikes when it starts a new song
* Use of upsampling (at best quality) increases overall CPU utilization

When I reduce the quality of the upsampling, or eliminate it entirely, I get gapless playback in most cases.  So in my case the issues with gapless playback have to do with CPU consumption.