FF or RR to next gap function

[Spidercrab]

Would it be useful for others to have a function that worked like holding down the left or right cursor keys, that skipped to the next silent part of an mp3. I would find this very useful for those times when you "find" yourself with a complete album encoded as a long mp3.

The way I could see it working would be to use the left or right cursor key together with Ctrl or Shift, and the track pointer would then stop in the middle of the next (or last) quiet section greater than say 1 second.

You could then use QCD to find the track positions to then use a program like mp3Trim to cut up the album.mp3 into tracks.mp3.

[krazyd]

I'm not too experienced with CUE sheets, but I thought that with these you could play a single big track as multiple tracks.

[Spidercrab]

I'm not too experienced with CUE sheets, but I thought that with these you could play a single big track as multiple tracks.

The issue is to find the breaks in the music that defines the individual tracks or sections within the music.

[krazyd]

Couldn't you just go through the song carefully once and note the times of all the song breaks, then enter it into a cue sheet?

[Spidercrab]

Couldn't you just go through the song carefully once and note the times of all the song breaks, then enter it into a cue sheet?

That is exactly what this new feature would avoid doing. With this new feature you could find the "next track" embedded in the large album.mp3 file with one quick operation that you could do every time you play the ablum.mp3 file.

[krazyd]

That is exactly what this new feature would avoid doing. With this new feature you could find the "next track" embedded in the large album.mp3 file with one quick operation that you could do every time you play the ablum.mp3 file.
You would only have to figure out the times once, and then just use the CUE sheet every time you wanted to play the album. It's just that seeking through the file while analyzing it to see if there is a section of silence would be fairly processor intensive, and would probably take while to do. And then there is the problem of albums in which the songs flow together with no gap between... :(

I'm assuming you don't have the original CD (;)), in which case you could just create a CUE sheet using EAC or rip to a gapless format. Check out this page (http://users.telenet.be/Zero.Tolerance/cue.html) for information on how CUE files are structured. It looks fairly easy, and using shaohao's CUE plugin, you should be able to get this working in QCD. Maybe even use EAC to create a CUE of a different CD, and then edit in notepad to the right times (and artist/album etc), so the structure of the file is correct. :)