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[ozmael]

When I choose the gapless playback option in MJ 8.0 I still get a small interruption or skip in the playback on tracks where the music is mixed. Is there anything I can do in the encoding process or playback that will eliminate this skip so that the tracks play back like they do on the CD (eg. no skip in the music)?

Prior to finding MJ, I used Audiograbber to rip the entire CD as a single track. I'd love though to be able to store the tracks as separate files so that I can store the details about each track.

I'm encoding to WMA 160.

Cheers,

Ozmael

[Sergio]

Yes, there's always a gap on MP3 and WMA. It's something to do with frame ends or something. The best solution you have right now is to use smooth crossfading with 0.1s duration instead of gapless, though that is not perfect and in faster music you can really notice a difference.

We're hoping MJ9 brings an "MP3-gapless" mode, probably something like smooth crossfading with such a small duration that we don't notice it, but right now there's nothing you can do...

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Sérgio @ Portugal

[Doof]

Download Exact Audio Copy. Rip your music into one big file, compressed with whatever format you want, and have it create a CUE sheet. Then use whatever utility works for the compressed format you chose to create the individual tracks. I'm not sure what formats work well with CUE sheets, but I use APE.

So I would have EAC rip the CD to one APE file and create a CUE sheet. Then the Monkey's Audio Compressor can take that CUE sheet, and generate multiple APL files. A CUE sheet basically just lists the beginning and ending points of an individual track within an album length audio file. And the APL files basically just point to their respective sections of the album.

So if you had Album with Tracks 1 - 10, you would end up with Album.ape and Track1.apl - Track10.apl. Then you import the APL's into MJ. When you play back the APL's in MJ using gapless playback, it will be truly gapless.

I realize this is a pretty messy description and for that I apologize, but I'm at work.

[joe mama]

IIRC, Monkey's Audio doesn't have the gapless problem that WMA and MP3 have.  So, if you use EAC to rip to APE, I'm pretty sure you can just rip the files separately right off and they should playback gaplessly.

Rob