Author Topic: Better skip silence funtion?  (Read 16783 times)

Anti

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> anal retentives, lazy bastards, scene release collectors

Well, at least you're honest. :D

Steven

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i've added a "Skip Silence" DSP function that can be enabled in the equaliser and DSP panel. It skips periods of silence exceeding 1 second and slience is less than -55dB (not configurable)

http://musicbee.niblseed.com/V2_4/MusicBee_Exe_Patched.zip

unzip and replace the existing musicbee application files

Cypher

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Thanks for implementing that in the new 2.4 beta. I'm testing it right now and it seems to do the job, no problems with songs without silence ATM but what i see is that the DSP also skips the silence at the end of a track, which makes the "remove Silence at start and end of track" function in the Preferences menu obsolete. I have yet to see if it skips silence at the beginning of a track.

Cypher

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After using it for a little while, i noticed that the DSP does cut a little bit from the beginning of a track when it's on in some. I had the same issue with the "remove silence at start and end of track" function in the preferences menu.

Penn

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It used to baffle me that media players varied in their ability to skip silence or to perform gapless playback. I recently read the Wikipedia entry [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gapless] about the subject and now realise due to the way many music files are encoded it's incredibly difficult to implement with 100% accuracy.

I wonder if there's any way that I could prepare the mp3s from my gapless albums (without having to re-rip) that would make them easier for MusicBee to handle?

Doing hundreds by hand would take me too long. Anyone know of a tool which can accurately determine true silence and track lengths (perhaps using a database) then trim the mp3 (without recompressing)?