GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 647975
gapless playback not gapless, and starts tracks in the middle
Last modified: 2020-03-17 09:21:47 UTC
When I have "enable gapless playback" checked, playback isn't gapless, and banshee starts playing subsequent track ~.5 seconds into the song. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Edit -> Preferences, select "Enable gapless playback" and click "Close." 2. Select an album to play, start playing it. Actual Results: After the first track plays, there is a gap between songs, and the first half second or so of following tracks is not played. The songs start about .5 seconds in. Expected Results: No gap between songs, and subsequent tracks should start at the beginning, as opposed to .5 seconds into the song. Build and Platform: 2.0.0-1ubuntu3~hyper1+maverick on Ubuntu 10.04 Maverick Meerkat
hi ; I can confirm that gapless playback isn't really gapless, there's still a small gap between songs of albums. I'm using banshee 2.1.5 from ubuntu 11.10 amd64.
Confirmed with Banshee 2.2.1 with Ubuntu 11.10 AMD64. Gapless fails playing a bunch of FLACs hosted on a NAS on the same LAN as the ubuntu machine with one switch between the two. There is a clearly audible gap between two consecutive FLACs (whether on the same album or not). Both FLACs are encoded from CD rips -- 44,100Hz 16-bit stereo audio.
We find it even severe, as you can see here: <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=795878> Summarized, we found that its possible that tracks may start much farther in the middle than just 0.5 seconds (I think the farthest I got was like 4 minutes 30). This is clearly related to gapless playback. However, I did not find gaps between the tracks. FLACs are cd audio based, played from internal SATA2 device (no raid, but crypto, sometimes IO stall is to be expected). linux 3.2.10-3.fc16.x86_64 Banshee 2.2.1 GStreamer 0.10.35 cheers
Just so you know, I'm still seeing this in Banshee 2.6.1…
Banshee is not under active development anymore and had its last code changes more than three years ago. Its codebase has been archived. Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (or rather transfer the project to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is being shut down) if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again. See https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/issues/264 for more info.