Gapless WMA playback

chrisjj · Post by **chrisjj** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 10:50 am

MM here (Pentium 4 3.20 GHz, 1.00 GB of RAM) suffers a delay of about 1s in starting each WMA track playing, causing a gap between tracks. It would be nice if MM's performance was as good as that of Windows Media Player V9 which here has more like 0.1s delay on the first track and no perceptible gap between subsequent ones.

Thanks.

Bex · Post by **Bex** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 2:17 pm

http://mediamonkey.com/faq/index.php?ac ... artlang=en

chrisjj · Post by **chrisjj** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 8:32 pm

Thanks Bex.

Others might like to know that steps #6 and 7 are not needed.

Steegy · Post by **Steegy** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 8:44 pm

It is needed sometimes... if the files themselves aren't completely cut correctly.

chrisjj · Post by **chrisjj** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 9:05 pm

Silence within the track is not part of the gap.

chrisjj · Post by **chrisjj** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 2:40 pm

Bex wrote:http://mediamonkey.com/faq/index.php?ac ... artlang=en

Whoops! Others be warned: on short tracks here, that tweak messes up the position slider, puts the Now Playing highlight way out of sync, and breaks Next/Prev!

I stand by my original wish for better MM performance ;) I really think MM has a problem here. E.g. Nexting MP3s is fast, but with WMAs it is takes about 3x as long... presumably due to the chunk of HD access I hear, not present for MP3s. This really slows things down.

Devs, could it just be a case of MM failing to cache some WMA support file?