I'm usually a happy FLAC guy but have been experimenting with AAC because I'm helping a friend set up an iTunes library. I recently encoded the ultimate gapless album "The Dark Side of the Moon" and am hearing definite and repeatable little gaps/disruptions at track changes. Those issues are not there when playing the same files in the Windows version of iTunes.
Files were created from the FLACs using fdkaac in Ubuntu Linux with this command line (the $variables are populated earlier and I don't believe are relevant):
The original FLACs play back perfectly as do ALAC files created from the same FLACs. MP3s created with the gapless option in LAME are better, yet still ever so slightly imperfect.
LAME command line is:
Any suggestions? Is this a bug?
Thank you!
Files were created from the FLACs using fdkaac in Ubuntu Linux with this command line (the $variables are populated earlier and I don't believe are relevant):
Code:
flac -d "$file" -c | fdkaac -o /mnt/WD8TBNAS03/TempAudio/Workspace/Convert/Travis/"$justfile".m4a --profile 2 --bitrate-mode 4 --afterburner 1 --transport-format 0 --gapless-mode 2 --title "$title" --artist "$artist" --album "$album" --genre "$genre" --track "$track" --album-artist "$albumartist" --date "$date" -LAME command line is:
Code:
eval "lame -q0 -b320 -mj --noreplaygain --scale 1 --verbose --nogapout $outdir --nogap $FileList"Thank you!