Bryce Nichol

@andrewilley @maxmp Oh excellent, my google play store didn't show the update, i didn't think to look for an APK. I've now installed build 921 and can confirm that the fix is perfect. I'm off to buy a subscription. Thanks very much Bryce

@maxmp Thanks very much Max. Do you have a release date yet for build-921? I'll send through any other MP3s i find where it's not gapless but the tag says gapless. So far every "gapless" tagged file i've found has been fine. It's just my old files (pre 2014 mostly) which have been causing grief. and none of them have gapless encoded. Which is a shame. I'm looking forward to your work around. For now i guess my iPod will keep living a bit longer to play these old files with missing ID tag data. Thanks very much for all the help

@maxmp is it possible to set the ID tag on an mp3 track as gapless through Poweramp? I think what I need is a setting to cut the silence on these particular old tracks. I suspect that's what my ipod is doing automatically somehow. I've sent 3x tracks to your Gmail so that might help identify if the gapless flag is set. For old versions of iTunes there was a setting for each file where you could flag the mp3 as gapless (and I did) , but they removed the flag and started doing it automatically after version 7 or something like that.

@maxmp Thanks Max. I've emailed through some sample MP3s. I suspect the problem is indeed the MP3s as they're very old (from 2005) but if there's anything i can tweak in the settings (rather than re-encode the MP3s) then i'd love to do that. Somehow my Ipod does some black magic and smooths out the gaps. I'd love if Poweramp can do the same. @w3wilkes Yep i think you're onto something, the albums giving me grief are all very old (2004 to 2010ish) while newer albums that i've tried (2014 to 2018) are being handled perfectly by Poweramp. So yes seems like the problem is my MP3s, but since my Ipod classic 120GB can somehow handle the gaps (Apple gapless voodoo) it'd be great if i could tweak the settings in Poweramp to do the same. I'm really not keen to re-encode all my old albums. Thanks everyone for the useful info. i've learned a lot

Thanks MotleyG That is interesting, do you know more about those Apple mechanisms? is it something that can be recreated with Poweramp through the settings? I remember the gapless playback checkbox that you're talking about in Itunes. Does Poweramp have the same feature? https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=47033.msg322589#msg322589 I found this link attached to the one that Andrew sent through earlier. Talking about "Gapless voodoo" that Apple seems to be using. I'd love if an android app could recreate that.

Hi Andrew Thanks for the speedy reply. I have a pair of files that would be perfect for a test, what would be the best way to get them to you? Email? With regards to the other points you've made: 1. Gapless meta data. I can't speak much to the encoding process of the MP3s in my possession, and i'd want to avoid a solution that requires re-encoding the files (I have too many for that). 2. Periods of silence. i don't believe there's any silence at the start or end of the songs. The songs are continuous mix DJ set which has been cut into segments. It's a "ministry of sound - the annual" album. My technical understanding of encoding and music software is limited, but what i can say for certain is that I don't have this problem on my Ipod (or in Itunes on Windows) using the same files so I'm keen to recreate that listening experience. Every android music app i've tried on my phone so far has always had a small gap. It's a short gap, but definitely long enough that if you were pacing the beat with a metronome, the metronome would be out of sync after swapping from one song to another. I don't believe it's a SD card lag issue as i've tried loading music onto both the SD card and the internal memory with the same results. I'd be keen to send you my test songs. If you guys can transition flawlessly then at least i'll know it's something specific to my phone or android version. Thanks Bryce

Hi Max I'm in the process of moving my music library from an Apple Ipod Classic to a Samsung S20 FE with a Sandisk Extreme 1TB card (android 11). My MP3s have been collected over two decades from various sources (mostly bittorrent) and i've never had problems with gaps while using either Itunes or my iPod. Now that i'm moving to android i'm trying to find a good music player and Poweramp is the one with the best reviews, so i'm currently using the trial version. The problem is i'm still finding very small gaps between my songs (they're DJ mixes). I have tried changing Preload setting to "more" but it hasn't fixed the issue. Is there anything else i can tweak in the settings? I'm happy to email you the MP3s in question if you want to see how they're put together. I should emphasis that the gaps are very small, but still noticeable. What is apple doing differently to smooth out these gaps? literally every android player i've tried so far hasn't been able to match what Apple is doing. Thanks B