On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 19:06:29 -0700, ermintrudethecat wrote:
I usually use Media Monkey on Android devices which is *almost* gapless,
but it met its match with download of Rachmaninoff's Paganini
Variations, where each variation is on a separate track, sometimes less
than a minute in duration. I tried splicing tracks together with
Audacity to overcome this, but with less than perfect results.
CD Players that don't play gapless are still
just a legend to me, I haven't come across
it. I wonder about stupid magazine reviewers,
like BBC Magazine who review a player that is
supposedly not gapless, "perfect for pop music", if
the reviewer isn't even using audio CDs but
using a mp3 disc, which is a CD-ROM, or an audio
CD made by burning amazon's mp3 files, thus inherently
"not gapless". No, I don't trust professional
reviewers not to make the simplest mistake.
No CD player can be expected to correct mastering
errors, it's not the job of a player to do so.
A program *might* do it, like a program ("app") that can
play lossy files without gaps.
So I've now gone back to JRiver Media Center on a crap HP (Intel Core)
cheap laptop which I could never get to work perfectly before -lots of freezes and reboots - until I deleted some bloatware and stopped using
the Microsoft browser. It's DuckDuckGo these days on all my appliances.
Nord VPN is slow to fire up, but I need it for Arte which likes to think
I live in France.
Audio is Bluetoothed from the laptop to my Denon amplifier - I don't
know which DAC is being used for this: I hope it's the Denon ...
Andrew and Ermintrude Clarke
Canberra
I would urge you to find a gapless system, it's not reasonable
to have to edit files together to remove gaps that shouldn't be there in
the first place.
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