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[whoareyou]

I have Atmos MKVs with corresponding CUE files.  Works great, except for gapless playback.
Would it be possible to add an option to ignore the CUE data, so that MKV plays gapless?
So, perhaps you could right click on one of the songs in the playlist (provided by the CUE data), and select option to "Ignore CUE/Play Gapless"? This would cause the MKV to restart and play entire file start to end ignoring gaps, or if possible ignore the CUE from that point onward.  Clicking on any one of the songs would end this mode, and return to normal CUE playback.

[whoareyou]

Bump.....

As mentioned, the only way to play Atmos gapless is to play the entire album's mkv from start to finish.  If you import that same MKV with CUE, the chapters are presented and labled as indiviual tracks as part of the normal UI, but playback is not gapless.

To get around this, it seems people are importing the same album twice, one import for gapless and one import with cue for individual tracks i.e. so that the mkv's audio tracks can be used in playlists.

Would it be possible to add an option to override the CUE data so album can be played gapless?  That would alleviate need to import same album twice.

[DangerJP]

Hi,

I just played Pink Floyd DSTOTM Atmos version ripped to individual .mka files and the transitions between tracks seem to be gapless on my setup (Win11 - MC32 - USB dac (ASIO) - stereo speakers).

Maybe I'm missing something?
Or maybe you mean bitstreaming to an AVR which actually decodes Atmos files?

[whoareyou]

Yes, this is bitstreaming.
No other way to play Atmos without converting it to another format.

[DangerJP]

ok got it

I'm following this thread anyway, really interested to learn more on the Atmos front!

[whoareyou]

Yeah, compared to other audio playback formats, Atmos is not well established and at least for me, it's been an adventure to figure out the best way to handle it both for playback and tagging. 

With JRiver, I've tried MKA, MKV, MP4, BDMV backup, cue sheet, sidecars and it all mostly works, but there always seems to be a gotcha.

[TheShoe]

+1 for this request.  There is a lot of Atmos audio available now.

[whoareyou]

Are you importing twice for the gapless playback?

[TheShoe]

Are you importing twice for the gapless playback?

not sure what that means.  can you explain?

[whoareyou]

not sure what that means.  can you explain?

One approach I've used is to import the same album twice i.e. DSTOM_NotForGapless.MKV with a cue file, and another version DSTOM_ForGapless.mkv without cue.