Music Player with Equaliser support and Gapless playback now on WP store.

[amitnahar]

While searching for music apps I found this app which is capable of doing Gapless playback and also has Equaliser support. Really good job by dev.
Here is the link:
FLAC player SD | Windows Phone Apps+Games Store (United States)
Sent from my Lumia.

 

[maykonaraujo14]

you could send the link aoo please?

 

[amitnahar]

Link is there in original post.
Sent from my Lumia.

 

[byobg]

Has anyone been able to verify that it really does provide gapless playback? I don't have any FLAC content available right at hand, unfortunately, so I couldn't give it a valid test. What I DID do (which I realize is NOT a valid test) was to convert some MP3 tracks to FLAC (lossless copy of a lossy copy, whee!), and I *did* hear a gap between tracks, though it was just BARELY there - could easily have been a result of the file conversion or a problem with the original MP3 encoding.

I also tried the hacky workaround suggested in the app's Help site of renaming MP3 files to MPEG3 (this hackiness is NOT their fault, I should stress, but the OS's), and the gap still existed - though again, it was tiny. So again, maybe a problem with the original MP3 encoding on my test data (NMH's _In The Aeroplane Over The Sea_, purchased from Amazon) - and nowhere do the app's authors claim to support gapless playback for MP3 files anyway.

So tomorrow's experiment will be to burn a gapless CD straight to FLAC, cross my fingers, and try it out. I'll report back w/ my findings, and would appreciate anybody else's, if anybody else has found any findings. At a minimum, I'm excited that somebody's TRYING to give me gapless playback on my phone, and even my INvalid experiment suggests that these guys are at least tantalizingly close...

 

[byobg]

AW YEAH.

I finally remembered to bring in some CDs this morning to experiment with this, and it went Very Well.

Experiment #1 was ripping tracks 4 & 5 of Pink Floyd's _Wish You Were Here_ to uncompressed WAV files, then converting those to FLAC (using Audacity for Windows). They're a good reference transition, because there's an unbroken "swoosh" of white noise between the two tracks - crank that up all the way, and if there's a gap, you'll hear it.

Experiment #2 was to rip the whole CD to MP3 (default settings in my Zune client - 192 Kbps), then rename the MP3 files to MPEG3 (it's the OS's fault that you have to do that step, not the FLAC Player's devs'), and copy the files to a folder on my SD card.

Playing the FLAC files through speakers, even with the volume cranked on the transition, I didn't hear a gap at all. With the MPEG3 files, I heard a TINY one - I wouldn't have caught it if I hadn't been listening VERY hard for it. Through headphones, the gap on the MPEG3 files was a little bit easier to hear, and there was a VERY slight hiccup with the FLAC files.

This is a totally acceptable implementation of gapless playback, which is HUGE. I wish this was a paid app, because these dudes deserve to make money for doing this. It's almost embarrassing how much this has improved my day

Get this app. Rate it highly. Good work like this needs to be encouraged.

 

[amitnahar]

AW YEAH.

I finally remembered to bring in some CDs this morning to experiment with this, and it went Very Well.

Experiment #1 was ripping tracks 4 & 5 of Pink Floyd's _Wish You Were Here_ to uncompressed WAV files, then converting those to FLAC (using Audacity for Windows). They're a good reference transition, because there's an unbroken "swoosh" of white noise between the two tracks - crank that up all the way, and if there's a gap, you'll hear it.

Experiment #2 was to rip the whole CD to MP3 (default settings in my Zune client - 192 Kbps), then rename the MP3 files to MPEG3 (it's the OS's fault that you have to do that step, not the FLAC Player's devs'), and copy the files to a folder on my SD card.

Playing the FLAC files through speakers, even with the volume cranked on the transition, I didn't hear a gap at all. With the MPEG3 files, I heard a TINY one - I wouldn't have caught it if I hadn't been listening VERY hard for it. Through headphones, the gap on the MPEG3 files was a little bit easier to hear, and there was a VERY slight hiccup with the FLAC files.

This is a totally acceptable implementation of gapless playback, which is HUGE. I wish this was a paid app, because these dudes deserve to make money for doing this. It's almost embarrassing how much this has improved my day

Get this app. Rate it highly. Good work like this needs to be encouraged.

Glad you liked it. I mailed the devs for adding an option to remove ads but they said that no one is buying this app. 3 copies of this app is sold in a month worldwide.
Really wish that WPC do a review of this because it is such a great app if you don't look at that 90's look.