Re: [linux-audio-user] [ANN] Aqualung 0.9beta5 released

On 7/8/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell@email-addr-hidden-job.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 20:26 +0200, Tom Szilagyi wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 06:29:03PM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> > > Hallo,
> > > Tom Szilagyi hat gesagt: // Tom Szilagyi wrote:
> > >
> > > > Aqualung: Music Player for GNU/Linux
> > > >
> > > > http://aqualung.sf.net
> > > >
> > > > Release 0.9beta5
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > It is our greatest pleasure to announce the fifth official beta
> > > > release of Aqualung. Some features you'd rarely stumble upon in
> > > > other players (at least not too many of them at once):
> > > >
> > > > * Gapless playback (designed for this from the ground up)
> > >
> > > Quick question: Can I choose to play *with* gaps as well? I like gaps,
> > > I'm used to them from my vinyl collection.
> >
> > Well, no. There's no existing option to put gaps between tracks,
> > though it would be relatively easy to implement.
>
> Is this really the job of the player? It seems that if you rip from a
> CD with gaps the MP3s should contain leading or trailing silence.
> Otherwise how can the player be expected to know that one batch of
> tracks is a live performance and should be played back gapless, and
> another is from a CD and should have 2 second gaps?
>
> Lee

I agree Lee.

In fact there is an old Quicksilver Album (Happy Trials I think) where
the vinyl had no gaps in a 25 minute song. When a CD for it came out
it played on my hardware CD player as one long song. If I played this
on any Linux player other than Aqualung it put gaps in. This was not
good. Aqualung was the only player I found that played the music
correctly, as the original.

I like the way Aqualung does this today.

- Mark
Received on Sun Jul 9 04:15:03 2006