Re: [Gtkpod-devel] [Gtkpod-questions] Gapless playback checkbox

[P.G. R. <p.g...@ph...>]

> Hey,
>
> P.G. Richardson wrote:
>> So if it cannot be set by the user, how would it be set in the first
>> place?
>>
>> "I wish to turn on gapless playback for these tracks. I do what?"
>
> You need to encode the mp3 with the Lame encoder (anything not ancient
> will do).  Lame adds the information needed for gtkpod to extract and
> calculate gapless data for the iTunesDB.
>
> The code to do this is at:
>
> http://gtkpod.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=gtkpod/gtkpod;a=blob;f=src/mp3file.c;hb=HEAD#l2697
>
> The Mp3 Info Tag which lame inserts is described in detail at:
>
> http://gabriel.mp3-tech.org/mp3infotag.html
>
> The bottom line here is that gtkpod can currently only calculate
> gapless data for mp3 tracks encoded with lame.  Support for other file
> types and non-lame encoded mp3's would require time and code. :)

Thanks for the explanation.

Cheers

PGR