WavPack support

[softworkz 4534]

2 minutes ago, Ronstang said:

Oh, obviously.  Then again I don't care at all about gapless playback at all for any reason I can think of at all.  

 

In that case, the important sentence for you is this:  

1 hour ago, softworkz said:

MPV audio playback is planned for the Linux app and could be used in the Windows app as well (like said a number of times already).

It will still have gapless playback, I hope you won't mind 

[generiq 250]

20 minutes ago, softworkz said:

Like explained above, that's the easy part. The playlist part is the "difficult" one.  In theater, there was just some javascript code for integration of mpv as a NaCL browser plugin (like how Flash player was brought into web pages). The new app is written from scratch (the outer part, not the core app which is shared with most other apps).

So what's wrong doing the basics for now and have much better audio support, and then work on playlists later?

I've just been testing with playlists in mpv, theater and the new app. I can't tell the difference in the transition between tracks. They all sound the same. What I will say is that seeking while playing in the new app sucks ass. It pauses for a few seconds before resuming, sometimes it doesn't resume, and other times it skips to the next track. It's useless. Theater and mpv are really smooth with no issues. And playlists are a very low priority anyway. You have to be able to play the audio first, which clearly isn't happening here.

[generiq 250]

I should add that I was playing Pink Floyd -The Wall. So the tracks are continuous.

[softworkz 4534]

19 minutes ago, generiq said:

So what's wrong doing the basics for now and have much better audio support, and then work on playlists later?

1. (Once gain) Development for this release is completed, there is no "for now"
2. Neither you nor I are setting the requirements, and playlist support has been such requirement

19 minutes ago, generiq said:

They all sound the same. What I will say is that seeking while playing in the new app sucks ass. It pauses for a few seconds before resuming, sometimes it doesn't resume, and other times it skips to the next track. It's useless.

I cannot reproduce, if you see that, then it's clearly a bug.

I've sent you an upload link. Could you please upload the media where you are seeing this and let me know how exactly you were playing  and seeking?

Thanks

Edited January 27 by softworkz

[softworkz 4534]

To conclude on the actual topic:

• as discussed, it is currently not possible to support directplay for WavPack containers (all kinds)
• since version 2.212.0 though, these files are playing at least via server transcoding
• a future switch to using MPV for audio playback might be able to remedy that situation

Thanks to all for the discussion!