[mythtv-users] Gapless audio playback?

[Stephen Tait]

At 06:03 10/06/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>I have about 1200 CDs worth of lossless audio on a
>server at my home, a 480 GB RAID5.  This machine is
>located in my garage, and I plan on networking it to
>an Xbox/Linux configuration running MythTV next to my
>stereo in my living room.  My question is: does MythTV
>support continuous gapless playback?  I have a lot of
>DJ mixes (no comments on that, please) where tracks
>run continuously over track boundaries.  It's
>important to me that playback remains gapless,
>otherwise it ruins the listening experience - so I'm
>hoping that MythTV will keep the music as it was
>intended.  Could someone confirm whether or not the
>music plays gaplessly?
>
>Many thanks,
>C

I'm in much the same situation as yourself. 0.14 wasn't very good at being 
gapless, but mythmusic in 0.15.1 works perfectly with vorbis and FLAC in my 
experience. MP3's sometimes have a slight delay IME (I even get delays in 
Winamp, so I assume it's something to do with MP3's being crummy at gapless 
playback).

I did have some issues when the visualisations thrashed the CPU (anyone got 
any ideas how I can fix this?) which throttled SMBD (sorry, yes, haven't 
got around to NFS yet) and resulted in stuttery network for 'high' 
bandwidth things like FLACs.