[flac-dev] Gapless Support

[Richard Schülein]

Hi,

 

i’m not part of the FLAC project, but i have a question regarding FLAC and
Gapless support
 I hope, I get an answer from some of you ;-)

We are currently try to add Gapless support on our device
 If we rip an CD
with our device, we can find out, that one track follow after another so we
can

recognize, that the tracks are gapless or not.

But how can we find that out on already existing FLAC files (or other
formats). Is there a marker inside the file, who tell me, that this

File is a gapless file? Also gapless make only sense, if you have the follow
up file also


 

Example:

 

CD

Track 1 not gapless

Track2 Gapless

Track 3 Gapless

Track 4 not gapless

 

If I rip now all 4 titles and play them later the player must know, that
Song 1 is not gapless but Song2 and 3 “Fit” together.

What will happen, if I delete Song3
. Is the player playing now from Song2
to Song4 gapless, which is not correct


 

Anybody a good description for me, how this is solved on FLAC?

 

Best regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen

 

Richard Schülein



 

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