Now that the Android 2.1 Update was release for the Droid I can finally post my thoughts about the pros and cons of the Droid vs the iPhone (my previous phone). ( Read more... )
There's no gapless playback on the iPhone either, technically, because the MP3 format doesn't natively support it. iTunes hacks it by looking for empty frames at the end of a file then telling the player to ignore those frames when reading the file. (That's "Determining Gapless Playback Information" if you ever add a bunch of files at once.)
Android doesn't do this because there's no syncing program. It will play Ogg files gaplessly, though (or, you can install bTunes, which in addition to being a carbon copy of the iPhone's music interface, does the pretend gapless for MP3s)
I tried getting bTunes to play both WAV and MP3 files "gapless"... didn't work. Returned the app. I should mention that is ANOTHER good thing about Android. You can delete the app and get a refund within 24 hours.
Strange! Maybe it was a Nexus 1/Cyanogen feature and not a bTunes feature then. I converted my mobile files to Ogg, so I can't readily test on my new phone.
Android doesn't do this because there's no syncing program. It will play Ogg files gaplessly, though (or, you can install bTunes, which in addition to being a carbon copy of the iPhone's music interface, does the pretend gapless for MP3s)
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I've tried encoding my tracks to Ogg but I can still hear a slight pause with the stock music player.
I will try bTunes, thanks for the heads up on that.
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