Gapless playback soothes my ears

[Qacer]

I figured I'd relax this Sunday and listen to some chillout Beatles remakes. Playing the tracks in VLC was quite annoying because the player wasn't able to process the continuous flow of music from one track to another. And then I discovered foobar2000. It's so much better to listen to music that plays continuously. It doesn't jolt you out of your relaxation.

? Let me take you away... strawberry fields forever ?

 

[Crono]

I used to use WinAmp for music for 10 years, just switched to foobar 2 weeks ago (tried it in past, didn't like it, but I do now).
VLC is awesome for the number of containers and codecs it can handle, but I only use it for video.

I love gapless CDs where the music transitions smoothly from track to track.

 

[frostedflakes]

Most audio players do gapless. VLC just sucks for music (it's not bad for video, though).

 

[CKent]

Use itunes instead, it does gapless as of the last version which came out about 6-12 months ago as I recall. Of course now that Apple innovated the technology all the other players are copying it and offering gapless playback as well :roll:

 

[randomlinh]

Originally posted by: CKent
Use itunes instead, it does gapless as of the last version which came out about 6-12 months ago as I recall. Of course now that Apple innovated the technology all the other players are copying it and offering gapless playback as well :roll:

uhh, itunes was late to the party. i could have sworn winamp and foobar had gapless capabilities before.

 

[frostedflakes]

Lol, yeah I'm pretty sure Winamp and foobar have had gapless playback for years. It's hardly a new idea.

 

[CKent]

:laugh: I'm sorry, I keep forgetting how badly the internet transmits sarcasm.

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

I love Mediamonkey. It sort of blends the song that's ending into the beginning of the next song. I'm not sure if that's gapless playback, but it sounds great.

 

[frostedflakes]

Originally posted by: CKent
:laugh: I'm sorry, I keep forgetting how badly the internet transmits sarcasm.

No that wasn't sarcasm. Just admit you're an Apple fanboy and you were wrong.

Looks like Winamp added gapless MP3 playback in version 5.2 (released in early 2006).

 

[CKent]

Originally posted by: frostedflakes

Originally posted by: CKent
:laugh: I'm sorry, I keep forgetting how badly the internet transmits sarcasm.

No that wasn't sarcasm. Just admit you're an Apple fanboy and you were wrong.

Looks like Winamp added gapless MP3 playback in version 5.2 (released in early 2006).

Read my post history for confirmation. I can't blame you though, I did a pretty good Macboy imitation if I do say so myself

 

[daniel1113]

Once you go foobar you never go back.

 

[Crono]

Originally posted by: daniel1113
Once you go foobar you never go back.

That's because of the alien brainwashing technology in foobar.
All praise the foobar.

 

[coldmeat]

iTunes has had gapless playback (or cross-fading) since 2001.

 

[Nik]

Originally posted by: coldmeat
iTunes has had gapless playback (or cross-fading) since 2001.

WinAmp, as horrible as it is, has had it before that.

iTunes is miserable fail any way you look at it. Fuck iTunes. I will never again have that shit on anything I own.

 

[EGGO]

Originally posted by: randomlinh

Originally posted by: CKent
Use itunes instead, it does gapless as of the last version which came out about 6-12 months ago as I recall. Of course now that Apple innovated the technology all the other players are copying it and offering gapless playback as well :roll:

uhh, itunes was late to the party. i could have sworn winamp and foobar had gapless capabilities before.

No I've had gapless for a far time longer than that with iTunes. Then again, I don't know how good they are with the windows version.

What sucks is how many portable audio players don't have it. I've only seen the ipod and zune do it out of the box.

 

[videogames101]

foobar2000 is the best, most customizable, and most expandable music player ever.


VLC for video because it has support for every format and codec evar.

 

[Howard]

Does anybody know how to export playlists to and from iTunes and foobar?

 

[Finalnight]

WMP11 does gapless playback as well.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

strange, freebies like foobar and vlc are 1000's of times better than most retail software