On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 09:02:30 -0000, Brian Gaff wrote:

The one big problem with ripping for me is the glitch at track markers.
I have never seen a music server capable of mending the join
seamlessly.

Google "gapless playback".

It's a function of the rip and playback software. The rip shouldn't
prefix the audio stream from a track marker with silence and the
playback software has to join the audio streams from two seperate
files on the fly,

ie The playback software has to have both streams open, one playing,
the other cued to the correct point.

If the software has to close the outgoing file and open the incoming
there will be a small glitch. If the incoming is prefixed with
silence you get a gap. If the playback software looks for the start
of actual audio on the incoming, to skip the gap, there will be a
glitch.

My test album for this is Darkside of the Moon. The Squeeze Server
makes a resonable job, there is a small glitch. Gone Mad Music
Player (Android) is almost perfect using the same files. Speak to Me
/ Breathe and On the Run has a small glitch that is hardly
noticeable. On the Run to Time as a little click, that indicates a
step change in the streams from the end of one to the begining of the
other.

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Cheers
Dave.