Problem with gapless playback after conversion

[zzdpmjpr]

Hi
I am a fairly inexperienced user of dMC.

I have an album ripped as WMA which plays gapless perfectly in WMP12. I can't be certain what software I used to rip.

I converted it to flac using dMC and these files play with a discernable gap or fade between tracks on WMP12. I think the codec being used in WMP is libavcodec.

Are there any ideas as to why this is happening?

kind regards
John

[Spoon]

Re: Problem with gapless playback after conversion

The source file is WMA Lossless?

[zzdpmjpr]

Re: Problem with gapless playback after conversion

Not sure how I determine that.
It shows encoder Windows Media v12.7600.16385 and bitrate vbr1152 though in WMP it shows bitrate of 700 -900Kbps. I'm not sure if that's lossless or not.

[zzdpmjpr]

Re: Problem with gapless playback after conversion

Your audio properties tab does show it as lossless - see below

[COLOR="*0000CD"]Artist Litton/Hough
Title Rachmaninov: Rhapsody On A Theme Of Paganini, Op. 43 - 03. Theme
Album Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos, Rhapsody
Track 16
Disc 1/1
Genre Piano Concerto
Year 2004
Rating
Composer
Size 1.23 MB (60% Compressed)
Original Size 3.03 MB
Length 18 seconds
Channels 2 (stereo)
Sample Rate 44.1 KHz{CR}
Sample Size 16 bit
Bit Rate 1,411 kbps
Encoder Windows Media Audio 9.2 Lossless
Encoder Settings VBR Quality 100, 44 kHz, 2 channel 16 bit 1-pass VBR
Audio Quality Perfect (Lossless)
Contains ID Tag [WMA ID Tag]
Channel Mapping
File 09
Type Windows Media Audio file [.wma][/COLOR]

Above shows bitrate as 1411, Win Explorer as 1411, WMP12 700 -800 and Tag/Rename as VBR1152. Why all the differences.

Anyway hope this helps

[Spoon]

Re: Problem with gapless playback after conversion

Perhaps WMP cannot play FLAC gaplessly, try a player such as foobar 2000 as a test.

[zzdpmjpr]

Re: Problem with gapless playback after conversion

You are spot on of course - foobar plays it fine. As I'm keen to stay with WMP would a different flac codec (if there is one) make any difference?

I am moving to upnp next month and dreading it. Will Asset play flac and WMA Lossless gaplessly?

Your help is much appreciated

[dbfan]

Re: Problem with gapless playback after conversion

Asset serves wma and flac losslessly! But upnp its self is not gapless, unless the player holds the playlist on the device its self.

[Tim De Baets]

Re: Problem with gapless playback after conversion

I converted it to flac using dMC and these files play with a discernable gap or fade between tracks on WMP12. I think the codec being used in WMP is libavcodec.

I don't think that libavcodec is a standalone codec but it is included in FFDShow. Do you mean that one? Other possible codecs are madFlac and those from Xiph.org.

WMP can't do gapless playback if a DirectShow-type codec is used (which applies to all three codecs mentioned above). But it should be able to do gapless playback if you install a Media Foundation-type codec such as MFFLAC.