From: P.G. R. <p.g...@ph...> - 2010-05-21 20:04:07
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Evening all, xtrender raised a question on irc about the gapless track flag checkbox on the details editor. At the moment, it is disabled. It seems that its sensitive property has been set to false in the glade file ever since the function was merged from the gapless_playback_branch back in 2007. Seems it should not be disabled if it is to be of any use. Michael Tiffany: If you are around, are you able to give a view on this since you merged the branch. Must appreciated and regards PGR (a.k.a phantomjinx) |
From: Todd Z. <tm...@po...> - 2010-05-21 21:54:27
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P.G. Richardson wrote: > xtrender raised a question on irc about the gapless track flag > checkbox on the details editor. At the moment, it is disabled. > > It seems that its sensitive property has been set to false in the > glade file ever since the function was merged from the > gapless_playback_branch back in 2007. Seems it should not be > disabled if it is to be of any use. It isn't something the user can enable or disable. It is an informational box that tells whether gapless data is set for a track or not. Perhaps the UI could be changed to something else, whatever might be a suitable way to say "gapless data is available for this track." -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Teach a man to make fire, and he will be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life. -- John A. Hrastar |
From: Todd Z. <tm...@po...> - 2010-05-21 22:13:54
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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. :) -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can walk. -- Demotivators (www.despair.com) |
From: P.G. R. <p.g...@ph...> - 2010-05-21 22:29:37
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> 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 |
From: Michael T. <ti...@ti...> - 2010-05-21 22:40:41
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Sure, I'm around. I think the point of the checkbox was simply to show whether it was determined to be gapless when it was read. I'm not sure you'd ever want to unchecked it so it didn't play gapless (though I guess you could). On the flip side, if gapless data wasn't found, it wouldn't make sense to check the box. If there's another good use for it, I say turn it on. Michael On May 21, 2010, at 15:03, "P.G. Richardson" <p.g...@ph... > wrote: > Evening all, > > xtrender raised a question on irc about the gapless track flag > checkbox on > the details editor. At the moment, it is disabled. > > It seems that its sensitive property has been set to false in the > glade > file ever since the function was merged from the > gapless_playback_branch > back in 2007. Seems it should not be disabled if it is to be of any > use. > > Michael Tiffany: > If you are around, are you able to give a view on this since you > merged > the branch. > > Must appreciated and regards > > PGR (a.k.a phantomjinx) > > > --- > --- > --- > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > Gtkpod-devel mailing list > Gtk...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gtkpod-devel |