Are you setting up a freelance torture centre?Chaloff said:Can Oppo 105 play stuff like Dark Side of the Moon nonstop?
Didn't Chebby do that joke?woodster said:Christ, I hope not. That is akin to white noise interrogation techniques
On a classical CD you frequently get very long sections of music (like movements in a symphony) but it will be 'chunked' into lots of tracks (like index points) despite being a continuous piece.Alears said:I wonder if Chebby or nopiano could explain here exactly what 'gapless playback' is as I am having trouble getting my head around it (must be age!).
Don't worry Chebby, when I was about 4 years old (yes I can remember) and my brother played DSOTM the sound effects pretty much terrified me as well :rofl:chebby said:Are you setting up a freelance torture centre?Chaloff said:Can Oppo 105 play stuff like Dark Side of the Moon nonstop?
Thought you would be playing something like Mari Boine out in the Russian sticks.Chaloff said:No, your sense of humor was really nice for me.
You know I'm from Russia. There are only white bears, vodka and me, wanting to hear Pink Floyd for ever
So, what about gapless playback in the Oppo 105![]()
You're getting the wrong end of the stick, possibly. Think of any CD in your collection where two-or-more tracks play one after the other without a break in the audio. To play them as intended as one continuous piece you need something which will play the CD 'gaplessly'. All CD players can do this by default, and have done since day one, but with other devices (and some computer-software players) it's a bit hit-n-miss, and the manufacturers aren't always clear about it in their literature either. So if you rip - or download - an album where one or more tracks are supposed to play without gap and either your device or its software can't play gaplessly, you'll get an unnatural break between the tracks as it finishes one track and starts the next.Alears said:Thanks Chebby / nopiano.
So am I right in thinking these 'index points' are only products of a ripped CD? What happens if the same piece is downloaded from the likes of the Bowers & Wilkins (or any other for that matter) download sites. Do they still appear if you stream a downloaded file?
MajorFubar, maybe I'm not wording it correctly.MajorFubar said:You're getting the wrong end of the stick, possibly. Think of any CD in your collection where two-or-more tracks play one after the other without a break in the audio. To play them as intended as one continuous piece you need something which will play the CD 'gaplessly'. All CD players can do this by default, and have done since day one, but with other devices (and some computer-software players) it's a bit hit-n-miss, and the manufacturers aren't always clear about it in their literature either.Alears said:Thanks Chebby / nopiano.
So am I right in thinking these 'index points' are only products of a ripped CD? What happens if the same piece is downloaded from the likes of the Bowers & Wilkins (or any other for that matter) download sites. Do they still appear if you stream a downloaded file?
But are his flac files from cd?Alears said:MajorFubar, maybe I'm not wording it correctly.MajorFubar said:You're getting the wrong end of the stick, possibly. Think of any CD in your collection where two-or-more tracks play one after the other without a break in the audio. To play them as intended as one continuous piece you need something which will play the CD 'gaplessly'. All CD players can do this by default, and have done since day one, but with other devices (and some computer-software players) it's a bit hit-n-miss, and the manufacturers aren't always clear about it in their literature either.Alears said:Thanks Chebby / nopiano.
So am I right in thinking these 'index points' are only products of a ripped CD? What happens if the same piece is downloaded from the likes of the Bowers & Wilkins (or any other for that matter) download sites. Do they still appear if you stream a downloaded file?
Lets go back to the OP's original question. If I play a CD of DSOTM in the Oppo it will playback 'gaplessly', if I then rip that CD to a flac file and play it back via computer / NAS drive then will it play back gaplessly or be affected by Playback Latency, and not do so, is what the OP is asking.
I'll have to check when I get home and have opportunity.
Sorry Allears I thought you didn't know what gapless playback meant, in general. Sadly I don't have an answer to the O/P's question.Alears said:MajorFubar, maybe I'm not wording it correctly. Lets go back to the OP's original question. If I play a CD of DSOTM in the Oppo it will playback 'gaplessly', if I then rip that CD to a flac file and play it back via computer / NAS drive then will it play back gaplessly or be affected by Playback Latency, and not do so, is what the OP is asking. I'll have to check when I get home and have opportunity.
MajorFubar, I wasn't sure what gapless meant exactly but I've since become partially educated.MajorFubar said:Sorry Allears I thought you didn't know what gapless playback meant, in general. Sadly I don't have an answer to the O/P's question. The difference between rips/downloads and CDs is that CDs containing gapless tracks are burned 'disc at once', where the whole audio file (or parts of it) are cut as a continuous stream of digital audio with track-masters in it. With rips and downloads, each track is its own separate file. Some players/software can join them seamlessly and some can't.Alears said:MajorFubar, maybe I'm not wording it correctly. Lets go back to the OP's original question. If I play a CD of DSOTM in the Oppo it will playback 'gaplessly', if I then rip that CD to a flac file and play it back via computer / NAS drive then will it play back gaplessly or be affected by Playback Latency, and not do so, is what the OP is asking. I'll have to check when I get home and have opportunity.
Are you sure? Whenever I've downloaded from the B&W SoS it comes down as a single zip file, but this unzips into a folder of FLAC files – one for each track – plus pdf liner notes and a jpg cover-shotAlears said:All I know is that when I download a classical album from B&W it comes as a single flac file.
Sorry not to respond to all. I am on the trip and hate type on my tablet PCAlears said:Lets go back to the OP's original question. If I play a CD of DSOTM in the Oppo it will playback 'gaplessly', if I then rip that CD to a flac file and play it back via computer / NAS drive then will it play back gaplessly or be affected by Playback Latency, and not do so, is what the OP is asking.
I'll have to check when I get home and have opportunity.