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Hi,

I have an IRiver H120 and have recently installed RockBox firmware on the player (replacing the manufacturers firmware) and it is now able to to play back LAME encoded MP3s without a gap between songs. Nearly all my music is mixed so this has been a problem for me since I started using MP3 years ago.

This works fine for all new music I rip from CDs I buy but all my music that is already in MP3 format still has the gaps!!

I have tried re-encoding using the LAME encoder but it obvisously can not tell the difference between song and silence and so encodes the silence into the new MP3 file.

So finally my question... does anyone know of a tool which can strip that small but very very annoying bit of silence and encode the song using LAME encoder or output the file and WAV so that I can encode it using LAME encoder without the silence??

I would so appreciate if anyone could help me as I feel like that little gap equates to an audible version of chinese water torture!!

Thanks
Brendt

How can 2-3 sec delay be that much of a pain.
There always be a delay when player uses random to seek/access the hard drive. I have a RIO carbon player, and I notice a small delay switching tracks, but doesn't bother me.

I suppose you could use Nero WAV Editor or something similar and cut/edit the silence or gaps...re-save and encode using LAME encoder. For me that has over 19GB of MP3, WMA, MP4, AAC music that would be sheer waste of time and energy. Otherwise, just join multiple songs eliminating gaps using a WAV editor for a continous dance/club mix.