gaps between songs on winamp

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is there a good plug-in that eliminates the jerky gap between tracks on winamp? i want to play some dj mixes through my computer but having that gap really messes things up.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:23 (twenty years ago)

actually, there's a function in winamp to reduce that gap. I can't remember what it's called, but it's located on the same menu is where you find EQ, it's a little horizontal arrow that you can click to raise a number (apparently the higher the number, the higher the crossfade)

― Dominique (dleone), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:28 (twenty years ago)

I have a plugin called Crudsoft Gapless Output, available here:
http://www.winamp.com/plugins/details.php?id=24303

― Rombald, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:42 (twenty years ago)

run two instances of winamp so you can eq and fade between them.

― lf (lfam), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:57 (twenty years ago)

The latest version - 5.20 - solves this.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 20:01 (twenty years ago)

Also go Preferences > Output > DirectSound Output > Buffering and turn up the 'Prebuffer on start/seek/underrun' to around 500 ms or over.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 20:04 (twenty years ago)

I don't think there's a single OS X program that can do this, including iTunes.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 20:07 (twenty years ago)

itunes can auto crossfade dude?

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 20:14 (twenty years ago)

The CD player in the leased company car I drive does this half a second pause between tracks too. It has really made me notice how many tracks (other than on live or mix CD's) are mixed to flow into each other. :-/

Ripping live albums and mix CD's as one long file to re-burn to a one-track CD because your car CD player sucks: dud.

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 20:17 (twenty years ago)

This was the main reason I stopped using Winamp a while ago. Didn't know the new version fixed that.

― Ivan Gallardo (Ivan), Thursday, 16 March 2006 01:48 (twenty years ago)

Enable prebuffering and some amount of "remove silence," which is on a different tab. That'll do it even.

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Thursday, 16 March 2006 05:07 (twenty years ago)

Wait, it's "buffer ahead on track change." Sorry. If the file is created correctly, this setting alone should work fine. But often there's an irritating split second of silence actually encoded in files. That's where the "remove silence" feature is useful.

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Thursday, 16 March 2006 05:14 (twenty years ago)

Sterl, autocrossfade AFAIK doesn't create an exact join between tracks, it just sort of smushes them together. Which sucks for DJ mixes.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 17 March 2006 05:46 (twenty years ago)

There was someting called the Shibatch mpg123 plugin that played LAME-encoded mp3's gapless in Winamp. It was here http://www3.cypress.ne.jp/otachan/in_mpg123.html#DOWNLOAD but the site is down. Don't know where it can be found now (it was free, so ok to seek it out). Better to use Foobar, though.

― eek, Friday, 17 March 2006 18:17 (twenty years ago)

tracer have you tried baytex party?
http://www.baytex.net/

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 17 March 2006 18:24 (twenty years ago)

i think i did, like four years ago, when i was looking for an el cheapo mp3 mixer.. does it accomplish this?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 17 March 2006 18:40 (twenty years ago)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 20 March 2006 19:20 (twenty years ago)

it claims it can... haven't played with it in a while.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 20 March 2006 19:28 (twenty years ago)

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