[PD] using puredata to play playlist gapless

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Feb 19, 2013, at 4:22 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:

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>> From: Scott R. Looney <scottrlooney at gmail.com>
>> To: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> 
>> Cc: pd-list <pd-list at iem.at> 
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 2:32 PM
>> Subject: Re: [PD] using puredata to play playlist gapless
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>> there's an interesting tool that game audio folks use that does some clever prestidigitation when encoding an MP3 and generates a gapless version. it runs on a PC, but can run under Wine pretty easily. requires old fashioned WAV files for input. here's the link. the page also has a lot of detailed information on why MP3s have this issue and how the tools solves this problem:
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> Well, if you require WAV for input you might as well convert to OGG which AFAICT doesn't suffer
> from this problem.

only MP3 has this problem, WAV does not either, as far as I know.  Basically, avoid MP3 and you will have gapless playback everywhere.

.hc