[LAU] Decent and attractive audio player

hollunder at gmx.at hollunder at gmx.at
Sun Apr 27 18:49:22 EDT 2008


On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:35:00 +0100
Steve Fosdick <lists at pelvoux.nildram.co.uk> wrote:

> On 27/04/08 20:51:11, Dave Phillips wrote:
> > IIRC gapless playback can be activated from the Preferences dialog 
> > but it is not on by default. Sorry, I didn't test it. :(
> 
> Dave was talking about rhythmbox.  I have checked this out and
> rhythbox does not support gapless playback instead it supports
> 'crossfading' which is not the same thing at all.
> 
> See http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Gapless
> 
> Regards,
> Steve.

The gapless-problem is the same for all gstreamer-based audioplayers,
as far as I remember I read that it's by design.

Another reason for me not to use rhythmbox is that it relies on mono,
something I don't know what to think of.

Regards,
	Philipp



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