Disable gapless playback

[LincolnJake]

I have a Rockbox'd Sansa Clip+.

I wish to disable gapless playback. I find this to be very un-natural.

Do I actually have to insert blank tracks in between my actual tracks or add silence with Audacity?

Or can I modify some code somewhere and recompile? I am familiar with Java, C++ and C#.

Thank you.

[saratoga]

Gapless just means that the player doesn't insert additional silence into playback that was not already in the tracks.  If you want more silence at the ends of tracks, I guess the most natural way would be to edit the tracks themselves to have a longer silence at the end.  I think this would be a very strange thing to want though.

Edit: you could also use an mp3 encoder that isn't gapless, although from the sound of things that might not be a big enough gap for you.

[ZincAlloy]

A gapless rip shoud have gaps of the exact same lenght between tracks as the original CD had (usually 2 seconds of silence). An mp3 rip with an encoder that doesn't support gapless will add an additional short moment of silence - which isn't a big deal when there is silence between tracks, but if there's not supposed to be any silence it's very noticeable.

I guess the settings of your CD ripping software might be causing your problem (or do you find the gaps on your CDs too short?). You need to set it to append pre-gaps to previous tracks.

[username_already_taken]

Gapless playback is what you'd get if you played a CD from start to finish with no manual track skipping. If the CD has silence between tracks and your ripped files don't then they were improperly ripped as ZincAlloy pointed out above.

Are you sure it's gapless playback that's annyoing you and not crossfade?

[PadraigMac]

it is indeed gapless playback that I cannot stand. I operated a tiny local radio station for a short while and I understand crossfade (used to pull faders manually and delay-start CD players).

For example, take the album "For Lack of a Better Name" by Deadmau5. The entire album is actually one single track - and I can't stand it. Without the silence I cannot know when the tracks have changed - and I need to know about track changes.

Regardless, since Rockbox does not offer me the possibility to disable gapless playback, I have procured another MP3 player without gapless playback.

Thank you.

PS. Are you sure that there isn't some source code that I can rewrite to remove gapless playback from Rockbox? Just don't tell me it's written in Assembly.

[saratoga]

You could probably force start_skip to zero in this file in order to produce the usual click sound when playing an mp3 without gapless:

http://git.rockbox.org/?p=rockbox.git;a=blob;f=lib/rbcodec/codecs/mpa.c;h=ca12087e879b48e5a4e5e5e450de9b47758c769d;hb=4c4c645#l361

I haven't tested though.