[Bug 45520] No way to listen to classical music

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Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: amarok

Hello. This is a wish for Amarok.
Any listener of classical operas (e.g. La Traviata, Die Walkuere) will have this problem and is stuck with MS Windows for this reason.

PROBLEM
-----------

Currently Amarok (and any other linux program I know) does not allow to
listen to classical operas in a reasonable way. Two cases are possible:

1. if I rip my CDs one file per track, I hear a brief silence
   as the track changes and Amarok is loading the next track.
   This breaks the continuity of the music.

   ( this is not related to the notorious mp3 bug.
    The silence happens on any format, like flac, ape, wv,
    mpc, ogg, wav, and is due to Amarok loading the file)

2. if I rip my cd with a single file per CD, I hear no gap but
    there is no easy way to move among tracks.

POSSIBLE SOLUTION
------------------------

One possible solution is to do what foobar2000 does on windows:
understand cue files. When I click a cue file, Amarok should read the
track names and times from it, and then load the corresponding audio
file in the same folder. The corresponding file is a big single file
(~650 MB) with an extension that can be ape, ogg, mp3, wv, flac, mpc, or
wav. Amarok would then allow me to move quickly within the big file, by
simply clicking a track name on the playlist. This would be the ideal
solution because virtually all classical music lovers have their music
in APE + CUE format. More seldom they have FLAC + CUE or MPC + CUE (just
ask around).

Another possible solution is to make Amarok read ahead the next track,
so as not to produce silence between tracks. This is what winamp does on
windows. That is not ideal, because classical music lovers should
reconvert their music to be one file per track.

** Affects: amarok (upstream)
       Severity: Unknown
       Priority: Unknown
         Status: Unknown
** Affects: amarok (Ubuntu)
       Severity: Normal
       Priority: (none set)
         Status: Unconfirmed

** Also affects: amarok (upstream)
     Severity: Unknown
     Priority: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: amarok
  
  Hello. This is a wish for Amarok.
  Any listener of classical operas (e.g. La Traviata, Die Walkuere) will have this problem and is stuck with MS Windows for this reason.
  
  PROBLEM
  -----------
  
  Currently Amarok (and any other linux program I know) does not allow to
  listen to classical operas in a reasonable way. Two cases are possible:
  
  1. if I rip my CDs one file per track, I hear a brief silence
-    as the track changes and totem is loading the next track.
+    as the track changes and Amarok is loading the next track.
     This breaks the continuity of the music.
  
     ( this is not related to the notorious mp3 bug.
      The silence happens on any format, like flac, ape, wv,
      mpc, ogg, wav, and is due to Amarok loading the file)
  
  2. if I rip my cd with a single file per CD, I hear no gap but
      there is no easy way to move among tracks.
  
  POSSIBLE SOLUTION
  ------------------------
  
  One possible solution is to do what foobar2000 does on windows:
  understand cue files. When I click a cue file, Amarok should read the
  track names and times from it, and then load the corresponding audio
  file in the same folder. The corresponding file is a big single file
  (~650 MB) with an extension that can be ape, ogg, mp3, wv, flac, mpc, or
  wav. Amarok would then allow me to move quickly within the big file, by
  simply clicking a track name on the playlist. This would be the ideal
  solution because virtually all classical music lovers have their music
  in APE + CUE format. More seldom they have FLAC + CUE or MPC + CUE (just
  ask around).
  
  Another possible solution is to make Amarok read ahead the next track,
  so as not to produce silence between tracks. This is what winamp does on
  windows. That is not ideal, because classical music lovers should
  reconvert their music to be one file per track.

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No way to listen to classical music
https://launchpad.net/bugs/45520