Amarok is the best but...?

I really like Amarok, It’s one of the best music organizers around.
However, when playing an album with tracks leading to the next without
interruption, the engine adds a delay long enough to be heard.

At this time, I’m using G-Streamer with MP3 support. I have no spaces
or delays set in playback. Also G-Streamer can’t be configured.

I can use Xine as well unfortunately I can’t get MP3 support to work
for Xine.

When I use the same tracks for burning with K3B, the CD comes out
perfect without spaces.

How can I get rid of the spaces durring Amarok playback?


OS: Linux 2.6.22.19-0.1-bigsmp i686
System: openSUSE 10.3 (i586)
KDE: 3.5.7 “release 72.11”

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check - settings - configure amarok - playback

settings for crossfading and fadeout all to zero

It may help!?


Box: Linux 2.6.25.18-0.2 x86_64 | OS 11.0 | (KDE4.1.85) “3.1” | M2N4-SLI
| AMD 64 X2 5200+ | nVidia 8500GT | 2GB RAM
Lap: OS 11.1 | Celeron 550 | (KDE 4.1.85 “release 3.1” | Intel 965 GM |
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Under “Configure/Playback”, “No Crossfading” is selected, “0ms” is
entered for “Insert gap”.

Still, can hear a gap in playback of tracks where one track leads to
another without interruption.

I notice the engine is called “GStreamer/yauap engine”


OS: Linux 2.6.22.19-0.1-bigsmp i686 / System: openSUSE 10.3 (i586) /
KDE: 3.5.7 “release 72.11”

Processor (CPU): AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ /
Speed: 2,000.00 MHz / Cores: 2

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Try from Packman, using amarok-packman, amarok-xine

switch the engine to xine


Box: Linux 2.6.25.18-0.2 x86_64 | OS 11.0 | (KDE4.1.85) “3.1” | M2N4-SLI
| AMD 64 X2 5200+ | nVidia 8500GT | 2GB RAM
Lap: OS 11.1 | Celeron 550 | (KDE 4.1.85 “release 3.1” | Intel 965 GM |
Lenovo R61e | 1GB RAM

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Looks like xine works better then GStreamer… After some playing around
with xine, I finally got MP3 support to work and now I have no gaps
between tracks, in other words Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring plays
straight through without interruptions. <:)

Thanks for the help! :slight_smile:


OS: Linux 2.6.22.19-0.1-bigsmp i686 / System: openSUSE 10.3 (i586) /
KDE: 3.5.7 “release 72.11”

Processor (CPU): AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ /
Speed: 2,000.00 MHz / Cores: 2

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