Clementine: No gapless playback of MP3 files

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_From larskinn on June 04, 2010 12:20:36_

What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Rip a CD where there is no pause in sound between tracks to FLAC

1. Convert FLAC files to MP3 using LAME
2. Test playback of two sequential tracks, using both FLAC and MP3 files What is the expected output? What do you see instead? I expect both file types to be played back without gaps between tracks. The FLAC files are played
   back correctly, but the MP3 files get a short yet audible pause inserted between tracks. The same
   MP3s are played back gaplessly in iTunes. What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? Tested on Clementine versions 0.3.0, 0.3.1 and 0.3.2 on Mac OS X 10.6.3

_Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/clementine-player/issues/detail?id=369_

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_From davidsansome on June 04, 2010 03:26:32_

Owner: john.maguire
Labels: OpSys-OSX

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_From larskinn on August 01, 2010 13:13:06_

Update:
I've tested 0.4, 0.4.1, 0.4.2 and r1576 . Gapless for MP3s is still not working, despite the changelog for 0.4 stating "Gapless playback should now work all the time with all formats".

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_From john.maguire on August 01, 2010 13:38:24_

When it's fixed, we'll close the bug. It's only broken on OS X.

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_From larskinn on August 01, 2010 15:18:40_

Alright, thanks for the clarification.

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_From mroova.ancestor on August 19, 2010 03:53:20_

There is a problem with gapless playback of mp3 files on Ubunutu 10.04 as well.
Tested on version 0.4.

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_From jordo.ex on September 03, 2010 14:38:34_

This seems to be a problem on all platforms, as it also occurs on Windows 7. Tested with r1905 .

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_From exo300 on September 18, 2010 09:54:40_

I can also confirm that gapless playback of MP3 files with version 0.4 on Ubuntu 10.04 does not work correctly. There is a sort of 'twitch' when switching tracks that should be gapless.

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_From Psyhister on April 27, 2011 09:38:08_

Gentoo, Clementine 0.6- r2 , gapless playback doesn't work.

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_From keirangtp on April 28, 2011 13:53:09_

Use 0.7.1.

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_From marek.miszczukk on May 07, 2011 08:21:19_

The problem is still present in 0.7.1. It seems to, however, concern mp3 files only - even though they are LAME-encoded (I've checked the same files on wine-run foobar2000 and they are played perfectly gaplessly). There is no problem with FLAC files. Tested on Ubuntu 10.10.

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_From keirangtp on May 08, 2011 05:06:25_

And what about latest dev version?

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_From joebentley10 on May 10, 2011 10:32:24_

Problem prevalent for me on 0.7.1 with MP3 files. Haven't tested FLAC files. Tested on Ubuntu 11.4

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_From marek.miszczukk on May 12, 2011 12:14:12_

Unfortunately, same in the latest dev version - 0.7.1. r3258

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_From thiago.mast3r on July 09, 2011 21:39:19_

Tried today with some FLAC files, no gapless playback on Clementine. With Audacious, it's perfect.

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_From thiago.mast3r on July 09, 2011 21:39:53_

Forget to say, Arch Linux x86_64, using Clementine from the community repo.

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_From maxtor11111 on July 11, 2011 18:14:13_

Arch Linux x86_64 too, Clementine from svn. After downgrading gstreamer0.10-good and gstreamer0.10-good-plugins to 0.10.28-1 gapless started to work.

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_From sco50000 on July 27, 2011 19:51:13_

I also see this bug on Arch Linux x86_64 with clementine checked out from git today. My gstreamer0.10-good and gstreamer0.10-good-plugins versions are 0.10.29.

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_From virus2008v2 on August 30, 2011 12:16:32_

Debian 6.0, Clementine 0.7.1 and I'm also having this problem :(

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_From damnated on October 07, 2011 03:40:41_

It seems this is a (pretty old) gstreamer bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701952

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_From spiro.multimax on December 22, 2011 18:41:47_

gstreamer fixed this issue for FLAC -- confirmed by me in Clementine -- as of gst-plugins-good-0.10.30.2-2. But MP3 files are still not played gaplessly in Clementine.

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_From iooioio.ioioioo on January 02, 2012 09:29:42_

This is similar to issue 2531 .

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_From visa.kuoppala on October 11, 2012 11:53:44_

I'm not sure how this works for people in general these days, but gapless playback of mp3's still doesn't work for me in OS X.

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_From ville.aakko on October 21, 2012 13:03:25_

Gapless playback does not work for me (I mostly use ogg). Should I file another bug report, is this only for MP3? This is on Linux (Gentoo).

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_From Rewarp on October 25, 2012 09:22:20_

I don't get precise gapless playback working for Christopher Tin's Calling All Dawns album, either for mp3 of FLAC. Using Ubuntu 12.04.

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_From davidsansome on October 25, 2012 09:32:19_

Issue 3223 has been merged into this issue.

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_From [email protected] on December 05, 2012 04:52:36_

no gapless playback on both FLAC and MP3, using 1.1 on Ubuntu 12.04

these files play fine gapless with aqualung

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_From vassie on December 07, 2012 06:55:47_

Gapless is broken in 1.1.1 too

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_From john.maguire on December 07, 2012 07:45:17_

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_From john.maguire on July 30, 2013 02:22:38_

Issue 3789 has been merged into this issue.

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_From davidsansome on July 30, 2013 06:09:43_

Issue 3791 has been merged into this issue.

[foresto]

I just tried Clementine 1.2.1 with the ALSA output plugin, and it fails to play gapless .flac files. Exaile does it just fine.

[AudioArchitect-R]

Clementine 1.3.1 still has the problem. Linux Mint 18 Sarah Cinnamon based on Ubuntu 16.04.

The reason it's a problem is because some artists sometimes create a suite of tracks, where one track blends into another, creating one long composition, instead of many smaller tracks.

This problem, that apparently no one knows how to fix, "Seriously" screws up those long suites of tracks. In this case Clementine ends up being a "Hack Job!"

Thank you for your consideration in this annoying interruptive problem.

[mrdudz]

same problem here (linux, 1.3.1) - baffles me that such a thing is broken for many years... when other players (like audacious) can do it just fine. :(

[aMoniker]

Just noticed this as well. It's still a problem.
Versions: Clementine 1.3.1, OSX 10.13.3

[mts19]

Still a problem using AV Linux, Clementine version 1.3.1 with mp3 gapless playback.

[xim]

+1 for noticeable gap between tracks from my mp3 collection. Not good.

[profhccaesar]

Still no gapless playback with newest release candidate 1.4.0rc1-296-g68d375c43.

Tested with provided binaries on

• Linux Debian 10 stable (Buster)
• Linux Mint 19.3 (Tricia, based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS)
• Windows 10 Pro 64-Bit

Same mp3 files play gapless with audacity (using pulseaudio).

NB: Tested some other formats than mp3:

• Vorbis (OGG): gapless don't work
• WAV (CD rip, not compresed): works
• FLAC (lossless compressed): works

[Asday]

Fails with FLACs on 1.2.3, Linux Mint 18.

I couldn't find a "gapless playback" setting, and if nobody had mentioned it I would have assumed it was default functionality. Why wouldn't anyone _not_ want that?