GAPLESS Playback now in iPods - New!
Reply #40 –
So if it has to scan your library it's either A) adding some sort of metadata to your files or B) adding info to your library, if not both. Then, assumably, it's using said data to sort of connect the files during playback. So, in theory, it's not really playing back gaplessly in what we see as the normal fashion, but rather using a work around (?).
Would you guys agree?
Or am I missing some prerequisite knowledge?
The normal fashion is A), adding metadata. It's just not the data in the Lame-header but in a ID3/m4a-tag field. Apart from that, the method appears the same as other (non-crossfading) gapless solutions, storing info on padding and encoder-delay in the file and using that info on playback to skip the gaps.