Re: Flac support for the Rio client and gapless playback

["chrisalivesey" <chrisalivesey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tony,

Thanks for the swift response. I prefer to use a lossless format if
possible for quility puposes - I know the difference is minimal at
high mp3 bitrates but I prefer the comfort of knowing I'm not
sacrificing any quility by using the rio instead of cd's. I also
wouldn't mind transcoding if it was to wav rather than mp3 for the
same reason but if possible, native support is preferable.

I ask about gapless playback becuase I listen to a lot of cd's where
one track is mixed into another without a break in the music. I
still like to store them as individual flac files so they can be
accessed on thier own. but when I play them back together I need
100% gapless transition (as it sounds when played back off CD). This
should be possible with flac and ogg - Mp3 can be done using the
latest lame extensions I think but I've never tried it. I didn't get
a chance to test xpl for gapless becase I don't have any gapless
albums in mp2 so I don't know if it already does this. Please note,
encoded silence should still be played back so if 2 tracks have a
gap on the cd they have a gap on the rio/slim etc.

Cheers in adavnce

Chris


--- In ukha_xpl@xxxxxxx, "Tony Tofts" <tony@x> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> Welcome to the group.
>
> > I'm currently using jrec/trio but I've just had a go with
xplrionet.
> > Xpl looks great but there are a couple of key features that I
need.
> > One is flac support and the other is gapless playback. Is
> > there any chance that these will be added in a future version?
>
> Development on xplrionet is open to any suggestion.
>
> Although adding native flac support on the rio side of things is
straight
> forward, we'd prefer to use transcoding to mp3 so that the same
> functionality is available to all the other mp3 players that
are/will be
> supported. Though I guess there's no reason not to have some
devices native,
> others transcoded for a particular file type.
>
> How gapless is gapless?
>
> Many thanks
> Tony