by mcow » Sat Aug 28, 2010 1:23 pm
mcow wrote:I notice that when I use WinAmp with ASIO4ALL, the tray icon for ASIO4ALL is shown even when WinAmp is not playing; in that case, the icon shows a Pause symbol. Pete, I'd be interested to know if you have the same problems with gapless under WinAmp -- it's possible the issue is that MM is restarting the plugin with each track.
A-ha! I was experimenting with this today. The difference between WinAmp and MediaMonkey was the "gapless mode" setting: if gapless is turned on, the plugin remains loaded after each track, so the music can flow directly from one track to the next. That means that when the player has stopped, the plugin is still not released and the ASIO4ALL icon shows as a Pause symbol.
This still isn't perfect. There's a slight hiccup in the sound on transition points which aren't silent (such as between "Brain Damage" and "Eclipse" on
Dark Side of the Moon).
There are two ASIO plugins available: "ASIO Output Plugin" [out_asio.dll] and "ASIO output (dll version)" [out_asio(dll).dll]
The former has a minimal configuration dialog which just lets you select the ASIO driver (e.g. ASIO4ALL), and this has gapless mode turned on. The latter has a configuration dialog with a number of options, one of which controls gapless mode.
[quote="mcow"]I notice that when I use WinAmp with ASIO4ALL, the tray icon for ASIO4ALL is shown even when WinAmp is not playing; in that case, the icon shows a Pause symbol. Pete, I'd be interested to know if you have the same problems with gapless under WinAmp -- it's possible the issue is that MM is restarting the plugin with each track.[/quote]
A-ha! I was experimenting with this today. The difference between WinAmp and MediaMonkey was the "gapless mode" setting: if gapless is turned on, the plugin remains loaded after each track, so the music can flow directly from one track to the next. That means that when the player has stopped, the plugin is still not released and the ASIO4ALL icon shows as a Pause symbol.
This still isn't perfect. There's a slight hiccup in the sound on transition points which aren't silent (such as between "Brain Damage" and "Eclipse" on [i]Dark Side of the Moon[/i]).
There are two ASIO plugins available: "ASIO Output Plugin" [out_asio.dll] and "ASIO output (dll version)" [out_asio(dll).dll]
The former has a minimal configuration dialog which just lets you select the ASIO driver (e.g. ASIO4ALL), and this has gapless mode turned on. The latter has a configuration dialog with a number of options, one of which controls gapless mode.