MP3 headunits AGAIN!

[Clart]

Just read somewhere that u got a 5 second pause between mp3s? bit w**k init?

 

[Tom]

on what unit?

Never heard of that before.

mate make a cd and go down to halfords and test it out.

 

[Rick]

I get a slight pause on mine (Pioneer P77) but its hardly noticeable unless you get one song that runs into the next.

 

[ViolentJ]

i have a sony one and it doesnt pause between mp3s, my gfs got a jvc one and that doesnt pause either

 

[Clart]

I listen to a lot of mixes (MP3s split into tracks) and i heard pioneer ones are terrible for the pauses between tracks.

 

[Rick]

Youd definately notice it if it was one continuous mix. TBH, if Im saving a mix that I know Im gonna play in the car then I usually just store it as one big mp3 file. Only drawback is you cant skip tracks, but if Im listening to it in my car then I rarely do that anyway, I just listen to them all the way through.

 

[Daz]

Oh, but if you burn the set to a CD.. then itll be ok surely? Just burn with no Gap..

If you have a set split into tracks in MP3s.. Id imagine you would have a gap.. unless theres a menu to say "No Gap Between Tracks" - like Winamp has.. heh.

 

[Clart]

defeats the object of getting an mp3 headunit though dont it?

 

[spirez]

the pioneer 7400mp is really bad for leaving gaps, about 5 seconds. Not sure about the 77mp tho

 

[Clart]

cross the 7400 off the list then

 

[John V6]

As far as I am aware the gap is when you translate the track from a media to MP3. As staed you can set the gap to zero and you will have a continuous play.

I do not think it is a function of the head unit.

I know this applies to my Kenwood unit.

The only point with my unit it will only play 100 tracks, this does not worry me and is sufficient for a long journey.





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[Clart]

but when i play MP3s on my PC theres no gap?

 

[sn00p]

Quote: Originally posted by John V6 on 17 February 2004


As far as I am aware the gap is when you translate the track from a media to MP3. As staed you can set the gap to zero and you will have a continuous play.

I do not think it is a function of the head unit.

I know this applies to my Kenwood unit.

The only point with my unit it will only play 100 tracks, this does not worry me and is sufficient for a long journey.

mp3s are not naturally gapless, they have a number of samples in them which are silent (I think its 30 or so milliseconds), thats long enough for you to pick up a slight break between tracks.

The newer versions of lame have a gapless option which fills these blank samples with the real audio, however, as far as I know this is strictly a violation of the mp3 format, but most players tend to support & handle it correctly - because you have to turn on vbr (xing headers, even if youve encoded as cbr) the track length gets screwed so it doesnt display correctly and from memory seeking can also do strange stuff.

Any gap longer than that is caused by player, in the case of whats been mentioned above it sounds like the player is only capable of having 1 mp3 (or more likely a portion of 1 mp3) in its memory at once, hence the need to seek, read and buffer when you finish one track and move onto the next.

Adrian

 

[Lunner]

I have a keknwood headunit, play alot of trance and dance music, where one track runs into the other, you do get a very slight pause between tracks, but this is barley one second, have looked at trying to eliminate this, but since it is only something like one second inevery 5 mins or so i decided it wasnt worth the effort.

Where are you Mitsi, you could come over and have a listen to mine if your in the midlands?