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Author Topic: Gapless playback with WMA Lossless  (Read 1925 times)

ozmael

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Gapless playback with WMA Lossless
« on: May 19, 2004, 03:52:55 am »
Can someone tell me if I encode a high BMP mixed CD (ie. no gaps between tracks on the CD) to WMA Lossless, will I theoretically have gapless playback from the resulting WMA files? Of course this assumes MC is configued to use gapless playback.

I've tried WMA VBR High and the skip in gapless playback is definately noticeable. Using WMA Lossless, I've not detected any skips yet, but wanted to get an experts opinion if I will in some CDs get skips in gapless playback with WMA Lossless.

Thanks in advance.

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Re:Gapless playback with WMA Lossless
« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2004, 09:15:14 am »
Are you encoding the entire CD or encoding as seperate selections?
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Re:Gapless playback with WMA Lossless
« Reply #2 on: May 19, 2004, 11:21:29 am »
APE or WMA Lossless should both give perfect gapless with perfect (lossless) quality.
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Re:Gapless playback with WMA Lossless
« Reply #3 on: May 19, 2004, 09:05:56 pm »
I'm encoding the entire CD but encoding each track separately.

In the past I've used AudioGrabber to rip the entire CD as one file but of course that means I lose the track information.
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Re:Gapless playback with WMA Lossless
« Reply #4 on: May 19, 2004, 10:44:06 pm »
There's no reason to rip to one big track if you use a good ripper like MC with lossless encoding -- the results are identical.
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Re:Gapless playback with WMA Lossless
« Reply #5 on: May 20, 2004, 09:49:30 pm »
Quote from: ozmael on May 19, 2004, 09:05:56 pm
I'm encoding the entire CD but encoding each track separately.

In the past I've used AudioGrabber to rip the entire CD as one file but of course that means I lose the track information.
Matt is correct of course. I just like having the entire CD in a single file. So I use EAC to rip with APE encoding.
If I want the individual tracks, I make APL files which MC, WinAmp, and foobar play and tag as selections.

Using WM9 Lossless, you'd lose the track info for all but foobar. It has cue file support.
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