Good day! I've got a new request for MC27 for something I've noticed for awhile now but I kept forgetting about posting something about it until now. I'll try to explain it as well as I possibly can, so please bear with me as I try to.
I use the
Use gapless for sequential album tracks option, and it works pretty good. Albums like Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon or Wish You Were Here gapless segue into each other without issues. The problem I have is, for example, if I'm listening to a song and then in the middle of the song I press the Previous button to replay the track, the gapless playback setting seemingly kicks in and depending on the track the first second of a song can be cut off (it doesn't restart cleanly). This depends on the song, if there's any gaps/silence/etc. before the song begins. Some tracks (e.g. Pink Floyd tracks) start more-or-less immediately and this is where this is noticed most. I don't really notice this issue with the Next button oddly enough, just the Previous button and only when trying to replay the currently playing track.
I do have the
Use gapless for manual track changes setting disabled, so it's not related to that.
Honestly, I can't tell if this actually could be a MC bug of some sort, or as intended. Nonetheless, right now, there's a couple workarounds I can do to avoid this issue;
1) Disable the
Use gapless for sequential album tracks option. The obvious problem is if I do this, gapless playback with albums, e.g. Pink Floyd albums, is gone and there's audible gaps between tracks. So this workaround is a no-go for me.
2) Try to avoid using the Previous button, and double click on the currently playing track or press Enter when selecting the currently playing track in my Panes view to restart it. I try to do this, but sometimes I have MC minimized to the taskbar and I use the controls that appear when you hover over MC in the taskbar to replay songs, and depending on the track this issue is noticeable.
So here's what I'm proposing and requesting, a new option under the
Use gapless for sequential album tracks option, something like
Use gapless for the Previous button so I can obviously turn off gapless when using the Previous button but keep it on for sequential album tracks. Or maybe make it where the gapless for the Previous button is handled by the
Use gapless for manual track changes option or maybe it's some sort of bug? You'd have to let me know if it is.
Thoughts?