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No gapless playback of MP3 files #369

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Clementine-Issue-Importer opened this issue Dec 6, 2013 · 40 comments
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No gapless playback of MP3 files #369

Clementine-Issue-Importer opened this issue Dec 6, 2013 · 40 comments

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From larskinn on June 04, 2010 12:20:36

What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Rip a CD where there is no pause in sound between tracks to FLAC
2. Convert FLAC files to MP3 using LAME
3. Test playback of two sequential tracks, using both FLAC and MP3 files What is the expected output? What do you see instead? I expect both file types to be played back without gaps between tracks. The FLAC files are played
back correctly, but the MP3 files get a short yet audible pause inserted between tracks. The same
MP3s are played back gaplessly in iTunes. What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? Tested on Clementine versions 0.3.0, 0.3.1 and 0.3.2 on Mac OS X 10.6.3

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/clementine-player/issues/detail?id=369

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From davidsansome on June 04, 2010 03:26:32

Owner: john.maguire
Labels: OpSys-OSX

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From larskinn on August 01, 2010 13:13:06

Update:
I've tested 0.4, 0.4.1, 0.4.2 and r1576 . Gapless for MP3s is still not working, despite the changelog for 0.4 stating "Gapless playback should now work all the time with all formats".

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From john.maguire on August 01, 2010 13:38:24

When it's fixed, we'll close the bug. It's only broken on OS X.

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From larskinn on August 01, 2010 15:18:40

Alright, thanks for the clarification.

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From mroova.ancestor on August 19, 2010 03:53:20

There is a problem with gapless playback of mp3 files on Ubunutu 10.04 as well.
Tested on version 0.4.

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From jordo.ex on September 03, 2010 14:38:34

This seems to be a problem on all platforms, as it also occurs on Windows 7. Tested with r1905 .

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From exo300 on September 18, 2010 09:54:40

I can also confirm that gapless playback of MP3 files with version 0.4 on Ubuntu 10.04 does not work correctly. There is a sort of 'twitch' when switching tracks that should be gapless.

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From Psyhister on April 27, 2011 09:38:08

Gentoo, Clementine 0.6- r2 , gapless playback doesn't work.

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From keirangtp on April 28, 2011 13:53:09

Use 0.7.1.

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From marek.miszczukk on May 07, 2011 08:21:19

The problem is still present in 0.7.1. It seems to, however, concern mp3 files only - even though they are LAME-encoded (I've checked the same files on wine-run foobar2000 and they are played perfectly gaplessly). There is no problem with FLAC files. Tested on Ubuntu 10.10.

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From keirangtp on May 08, 2011 05:06:25

And what about latest dev version?

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From joebentley10 on May 10, 2011 10:32:24

Problem prevalent for me on 0.7.1 with MP3 files. Haven't tested FLAC files. Tested on Ubuntu 11.4

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From marek.miszczukk on May 12, 2011 12:14:12

Unfortunately, same in the latest dev version - 0.7.1. r3258

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From thiago.mast3r on July 09, 2011 21:39:19

Tried today with some FLAC files, no gapless playback on Clementine. With Audacious, it's perfect.

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From thiago.mast3r on July 09, 2011 21:39:53

Forget to say, Arch Linux x86_64, using Clementine from the community repo.

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From maxtor11111 on July 11, 2011 18:14:13

Arch Linux x86_64 too, Clementine from svn. After downgrading gstreamer0.10-good and gstreamer0.10-good-plugins to 0.10.28-1 gapless started to work.

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From sco50000 on July 27, 2011 19:51:13

I also see this bug on Arch Linux x86_64 with clementine checked out from git today. My gstreamer0.10-good and gstreamer0.10-good-plugins versions are 0.10.29.

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From virus2008v2 on August 30, 2011 12:16:32

Debian 6.0, Clementine 0.7.1 and I'm also having this problem :(

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From damnated on October 07, 2011 03:40:41

It seems this is a (pretty old) gstreamer bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701952

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From spiro.multimax on December 22, 2011 18:41:47

gstreamer fixed this issue for FLAC -- confirmed by me in Clementine -- as of gst-plugins-good-0.10.30.2-2. But MP3 files are still not played gaplessly in Clementine.

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From iooioio.ioioioo on January 02, 2012 09:29:42

This is similar to issue 2531 .

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From visa.kuoppala on October 11, 2012 11:53:44

I'm not sure how this works for people in general these days, but gapless playback of mp3's still doesn't work for me in OS X.

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From ville.aakko on October 21, 2012 13:03:25

Gapless playback does not work for me (I mostly use ogg). Should I file another bug report, is this only for MP3? This is on Linux (Gentoo).

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From Rewarp on October 25, 2012 09:22:20

I don't get precise gapless playback working for Christopher Tin's Calling All Dawns album, either for mp3 of FLAC. Using Ubuntu 12.04.

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From davidsansome on October 25, 2012 09:32:19

Issue 3223 has been merged into this issue.

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From mailsander@gmx.net on December 05, 2012 04:52:36

no gapless playback on both FLAC and MP3, using 1.1 on Ubuntu 12.04

these files play fine gapless with aqualung

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From vassie on December 07, 2012 06:55:47

Gapless is broken in 1.1.1 too

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From john.maguire on December 07, 2012 07:45:17

Labels: Restrict-AddIssueComment-Commit

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From john.maguire on July 30, 2013 02:22:38

Issue 3789 has been merged into this issue.

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From davidsansome on July 30, 2013 06:09:43

Issue 3791 has been merged into this issue.

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foresto commented Jan 31, 2014

I just tried Clementine 1.2.1 with the ALSA output plugin, and it fails to play gapless .flac files. Exaile does it just fine.

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Clementine 1.3.1 still has the problem. Linux Mint 18 Sarah Cinnamon based on Ubuntu 16.04.

The reason it's a problem is because some artists sometimes create a suite of tracks, where one track blends into another, creating one long composition, instead of many smaller tracks.

This problem, that apparently no one knows how to fix, "Seriously" screws up those long suites of tracks. In this case Clementine ends up being a "Hack Job!"

Thank you for your consideration in this annoying interruptive problem.

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mrdudz commented Jun 18, 2017

same problem here (linux, 1.3.1) - baffles me that such a thing is broken for many years... when other players (like audacious) can do it just fine. :(

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aMoniker commented Feb 3, 2018

Just noticed this as well. It's still a problem.
Versions: Clementine 1.3.1, OSX 10.13.3

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mts19 commented Aug 4, 2019

Still a problem using AV Linux, Clementine version 1.3.1 with mp3 gapless playback.

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xim commented Aug 12, 2019

+1 for noticeable gap between tracks from my mp3 collection. Not good.

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profhccaesar commented Jul 28, 2020

Still no gapless playback with newest release candidate 1.4.0rc1-296-g68d375c43.

Tested with provided binaries on

  • Linux Debian 10 stable (Buster)
  • Linux Mint 19.3 (Tricia, based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS)
  • Windows 10 Pro 64-Bit

Same mp3 files play gapless with audacity (using pulseaudio).

NB: Tested some other formats than mp3:

  • Vorbis (OGG): gapless don't work
  • WAV (CD rip, not compresed): works
  • FLAC (lossless compressed): works

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Asday commented Oct 21, 2020

Fails with FLACs on 1.2.3, Linux Mint 18.

I couldn't find a "gapless playback" setting, and if nobody had mentioned it I would have assumed it was default functionality. Why wouldn't anyone not want that?

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  • Vorbis (OGG): gapless don't work
  • WAV (CD rip, not compresed): works
  • FLAC (lossless compressed): works

That is very weird, Vorbis is a naturally gapless format, I don't see why it would be handled differently than FLAC by Clementine.

With Clementine I have gaps between all types of files for some reason, not with Strawberry though, a Clementine fork.

However, to those who only have issues with gapless MP3, it's an upstream issue: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-good/-/issues/31. It affects Strawberry too, since it also uses GStreamer.

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WildPenquin commented Dec 19, 2021

Hi,

I've noticed this bug has discussion about generic non-gapless playback of other formats, too, although this was originally reported for MP3 only. There is also a more generic bug report about gapless playback here: #3933

I'm commenting here since I've noticed a workaround and want other user to know about it, too: try setting a smaller buffer (in clementine) or decrease the minimum value required for filling the buffer.

I also want to mention, that I can reproduce non-gapless playback on Ogg Vorbis and FLAC, and that the same files are played back gapless (to my ears) in case I set a smaller cache / minimum fill %. Searching to near the end of a file will introduce gaps at the next track change in any case, despite cache settings. I do not use MP3s (so: sorry for OT!).

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