[REQ] Gapless playback [#10611]

[djshack]

I'd like to add my vote for supporting gapless playback on Android 4.1+ with the MM app.

I did a little research since not everyone is able to make gapless playback work with music apps on 4.1+. For some they had to revert to the stock Google OS. For others they needed a special file format. Some could not get it to work at all.

In my case, I have a Galaxy S3 (Verizon) running 4.1.2. I tested with WMA (basic), OGG, and FLAC files. The stock app, Google Play Music, and Amazon MP3 were unable to play any of the 3 formats gapless. I was not able try WinAmp, since gapless playback is only supported in their Pro bundle. However, I was able to get a trial of PowerAmp, and found that I heard gapless playback with OGG and FLAC formats, but not WMA. This makes me think that they are correctly supporting the Android 4.1 API, and not merely stripping out silence at the end and beginning of tracks.

From the 4.1 API: "You can now perform gapless playback between two separate MediaPlayer objects. At any time before your first MediaPlayer finishes, call setNextMediaPlayer() and Android attempts to start the second player the moment that the first one stops." This approach would be expected to work with OGG and FLAC, and not WMA (basic).

So hopefully, MM Android can support gapless playback with OGG and FLAC as well.

Dennis

Shuttle(+) and PowerAmp both do perfect gapless playback of MP3, FLAC, and M4A files, all on my stock HTC One which Play Music can't even seem to handle.

[christianray]

Just wondering if there's progress on this?
Thanks

[MysteryMan]

I am new to Media Monkey and use it on my Samsung Galaxy S4 to play FLAC files.

I have tried to see if there is an option to get them to play without a gap between each track, but, have not seen one.

Can anyone tell me if this is possible or, if not, is it likely to feature in a future release?

I have loads of albums that should flow from one track to the next, particularly live ones, and the short pause between tracks is a bit of a pain!!!!

[rusty]

Gapless playback will be implemented in MMA 1.1.0. Beta testing of that should begin as soon as 1.0.7 is released.

-Rusty

[mcow]

This seems to be working well, even for UPnP playback. Thanks!

[dmcritchie]

Yes, indeed. I have now tested MMA 1.1.0.0335 with both FLAC and OGG files, and gapless playback works like a charm.

Thanks very much, guys! This is what I was wating for. I'm now signing up for Pro on my smartphone and the Gold on my PC.

Details:
Samsung Galaxy S3
Android v 4.4.2 (Verizon)

Dennis

[SadMonkey]

Just downloaded the beta 1.1.0.0341 and I'm not seeing a control for gapless playback...any advice?

[mcow]

No control; it just uses gapless by default, if the Android version supports it. (Jellybean+)

[dmcritchie]

http://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=10816

Dennis