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Do not add gaps between songs
One thing that annoy me is that Spotify adds gaps between song that should not be there. Is there not a way to buffer the next song so it starts as soon as the last songs ends.
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It's actually not a buffering issue it's that we don't support gapless playback at the moment. It is something we are considering though.
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I don't understand why anything other than a rigid adherence to the original timing and structure of the recording should be considered. No "novel features" are required, just reproduce the recording as it would have played form it's original media please.
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I also think gapless play for mix albums and live albums is absolutely essential. I'm just listening to "Since I Left You" by The Avalanches and the gaps between tracks are extremely distracting. I'm not interested in a crossfading feature at all, but albums should be presented in the way they were originally intended and for a great deal of them that means no gaps between tracks. Thanks.
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I think for live albums (or the dreaded mix CDs) gapless is essential. Otherwise, it's a "would be nice". I find crossfading on live albums to be a bit off putting.
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Buffering would allow for a crossfade effect, which would be awesome!
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Inappropriate?Buffering would allow for a crossfade effect, which would be awesome!
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Inappropriate?It's actually not a buffering issue it's that we don't support gapless playback at the moment. It is something we are considering though.
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Inappropriate?I think it would be even nicer with a Crossfading feature. Then we're starting to talk real usability.
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Inappropriate?But i think gapless play or crossfading should be very dependant on the albums which are played. Most of the albums does have gaps or crossfading between the tracks, in contrary to many concept albums where gapless play is intentional and should happen when played in Spotify too!
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Inappropriate?I think for live albums (or the dreaded mix CDs) gapless is essential. Otherwise, it's a "would be nice". I find crossfading on live albums to be a bit off putting.
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Inappropriate?I agree with greedoe; for mix CDs and live albums there should be no gaps.
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Inappropriate?I also think gapless play for mix albums and live albums is absolutely essential. I'm just listening to "Since I Left You" by The Avalanches and the gaps between tracks are extremely distracting. I'm not interested in a crossfading feature at all, but albums should be presented in the way they were originally intended and for a great deal of them that means no gaps between tracks. Thanks.
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"albums should be presented in the way they were originally intended" - Absolutely right! I'm amazed at how people seem to put up with breaks in recordings that were intended to segue from track to track. I think it may stem from the early days of MP3 playing when it was a novelty just having digital music playing on small portable devices. -
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Just add a cool icon for the gapless/crossfade feature right beside the "shuffle" and "repeat" buttons. That would be great and easy to switch on and off regarding the issue on mixed music vs. concept albums.
Easy as pie!
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Inappropriate?Gapless support in Spotify would be awesome.
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Inappropriate?I don't understand why anything other than a rigid adherence to the original timing and structure of the recording should be considered. No "novel features" are required, just reproduce the recording as it would have played form it's original media please.
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Absolutely!
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Inappropriate?Is it just me but now when you can "go offline" with your playlist - there's no gaps in those playlists?1 Comment Add a comment
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It seems there is less of a gap. Could it be the time it takes to check if its online, and if the track is available locally first, gives a slightly longer pause? (Currently listening to Monty Python – The Album of the Soundtrack of the Trailer of the Film of Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Executive Version and yes there is less of a gap between tracks...even no gap).
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Inappropriate?This is something I've just noticed so wanted to add my voice to this debate, it's a bit annoying (or very) to listen to a great mix yet have little gaps and jumps in there! I have tried using offline mode and this doesn't make any difference. Please consider adding this (a la iTunes) Spotify, even if it is only for offline use. Pretty please? -
Inappropriate?Yes! I would love this. It's not really a feature request for my part, but more like a feature demand. It doesn't cost much, and it's tasty.
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Inappropriate?The cd's tracks should be played as mastered on the cd with gaps niether cut or extended. This is how the artists wanted them to be heard and are usualy best heard that way.
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Inappropriate?Couldn't gaps be added if you have the shuffel mode enabled, and disabled if you are playing without it?
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Inappropriate?@rockafella music on a cd is represented differently to music in an MP3 (or other formats). We have gaps because of the internet and the way it handles information.
If you download the music for offline it would be a nice feature to have spotify go through your offline music and remove the gaps (or set markers to say where the gaps will occur and skip to the next track at that point as they won't be able to get rid of the gaps, just ignore them).
However if you always stream your music spotify doesn't really "know" what you are going to listen to next, even if you play the same music all the time.
So gapless music is probably possible only on offline music either on your desktop or mobile, but am guessing not for streamed music?
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It would be enough to get the beginning of the next track only a second before previous one ends, and it wouldn't really matter if that beginning wouldn't be used and something else played instead, there's going to be a lot of stuff that's not going to be used (again) in the local cache anyway.
Originally the gaps appeared in compressed music because in many ways technically inferior MP3 as a format can't handle gapless without external kludges. MP3 can handle track lengths only as exact multiples of the frame length, and because the frame length is different from CD frame length there's always going to be on average half a frame (not much, but definitely enough to be noticed) of silence in the end of a plain MP3 without kludges. Now, Spotify uses Ogg Vorbis, which is inherently gapless and doesn't have this problem, assuming the music library is correctly constructed in the first place, so the only technical hurdle is to implement buffering of the next track before previous ends. This has to be done on normal local players as well, so the only difference in Spotify would be to make sure the beginning of the next track exists in the local cache early enough, it's not even very difficult.
I don't know how Spotify actually handles tracks and haven't yet tried out playback with libspotify, but old versions of Winamp were legendarily bad in this aspect. They handled all tracks so separately that the gap was added even between tracks played from a CD. -
I didn't know that about the type of encoding they use. So yeah I'd completely agree that Spotify should be able to handle the buffering of starting the next track.
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Inappropriate?I often listen to whole records streamed on spotify and it is irritating when extra gaps are added. On a CD a song is often represented with a gap at the end of it (as a part of the song). And even when I listen to mixes of songs from different albums the origionally gap is ok for me. I'd rather have the origionally gap from the CD then a gap chosen by the software. -
Inappropriate?On Deezer users can have fades on input and output. And maybe gap-less (I have to check). So "Internet" isn't an excuse. Dev team didn't think about it at the beginning and now it's difficult to implement it. That I can understand.
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We don't talk here about gap in songs, like Damien Rice can do ^^, but gaps between songs, due to the apps and how it handle tracks. Use Spotify under Android based devices like my Archos 5 IT, and you'll hear gaps/glitches on every pieces of a track. Horrible. (maybe I'll stop my premium account...)
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Inappropriate?So Spotify - are we just chatting among ourselves here? 10 months ago Andres made a comment...? Update please :-)
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Inappropriate?I ́ll think both the PC streamers and also we that uses the Iphone app for Spotify when we are running or powerwalking are frustraed abot the silence between every song....
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