Squeezebox - pasues betwwen tracks

[Rush2112]

Not a big problem...just wondering if any one knows a better solution, that the one I've currently thought of.....

When playing back ripped CD, like Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, which some of the tracks run into one another, it's fine on the CD. However after ripping, and playing back via the squeezebox, there is a brief pause, when the track changes. Tracks are 192kbs in MP3 format.

This isn't common to the squeezebox, as I've a SonyNW-E507 that does similar, when playing back this type of album.

The only solution I can think of at the moment, is to sample the CD, and make the joined tracks one long track, then convert that to MP3

Any other idea / suggestion welcome :lease:

[andrew1810]

The Squeezebox should do gapless playback on everything, especially with an mp3 file.

Can you try running the file on your PC and see if there are a few seconds of silence at the start/end? It could be the track has ripped with a gap at the end.

I'll try the same CD this afternoon if I get a chance and try it on my squeezebox.

Andrew

[Rush2112]

Had similar result playing ripped album on PC.

Winamp does the best job, but still a very brief interruption as the track changes.

I've tried playing the ablum form the PC hard drive & from the NAS server, with the same results. Both times the CD was ripped with iTunes.

What program does anyone recommed for ripping CDs

[andrew1810]

If you have the same problem on the PC then its the files themselves, not the squeezebox.

Try EAC or CDEX, ripping to FLAC and see if that does the same.

[Rush2112]

Thanks for the reply

While I'm working on some of your suggestions, could you try it with your setup, and let me know the results.

Cheers

[eyeballKid]

I've tried playing the ablum form the PC hard drive & from the NAS server, with the same results. Both times the CD was ripped with iTunes.

iTunes-ripped MP3s definitely play gapless (at least my 192kbps ones do on Winamp and my Karma). I'd also recommend CDEX. Although MP3 encoding never seems to take account of the fact that two tracks should go together, so you sometimes hear a "pop" at the track break (not to be confused with lously playback software taking a break between songs). Can you encode using something else like OGG?

[Rush2112]

Long story.

After losts of mucking (<- being polite here :) ) about, I seem to have got it working (at worst I get an accasional "pop" as it switches tracks).

Problem appeared to be related to my QNAP NAS Server (which runs its own verion of the slimserver - it arrived installed with Ver 6.2.1). This places Firmware version 28 on the squeezebox. While streaming from this setup the break in the tracks was more apparent. Ogg files would be just awfull, pop, clicks , stuttering etc....

Installing slimserver back on my windows PC (Ver6.2.2), this updates the firmware in the player to Ver 37. Playback was fine from here, both mp3 and ogg files...

So, set squeezebox to play from QNAP server...it wants to update the firmware as they are different (but if you let it. It downgrades the squeeze box back to Ver 28) It doen't appear to see that Firmware Ver 37 is later than Ver 28). I've found that pressing the Favorites button on the remote aborts this, other wise Squeesebox just sits there waiting for the Brightness button to be pressed to allow update. But it will keep trying to "update" to the old version supplied with Ver 6.2.1 on the QNAP server, every couple of minutes (ahhh)


This was getting annoying as everything was working OK with Ver 37 of the squeezebox firmware and QNAP server, ogg file play OK now also....

There is a way to fix this by removing the Hard disk from the QNAP server, and using linux to copy the later firmware to the disk, but I wont go into that now, as it's long and I cant remember all the directories, etc I was poking round in.

Suffice to say I have Ver 37 on the QNAP Server and it nolonger tries to "upgrade" back down to Ver 28 of the Firmware (which I think may have been the problem).

AND it's playing nicely now.......