>
> Subject:
> Re: [linux-audio-user] [ANN] Aqualung 0.9beta5 released
> From:
> "Mark Knecht"
> Date:
> Sat, 8 Jul 2006 11:39:56 -0700
> To:
> "A list for linux audio users"
>
> To:
> "A list for linux audio users"
>
>
> On 7/8/06, Lee Revell 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