CD player woes

[RogerS]

Do all modern CD players play CDs as gapless?

Reason for asking is that either the new one we bought just before Christmas has developed a fault ('cos it doesn't play gapless) or the CD player isn't designed to play gapless CDs ...and the CDs I'd been playing up until now hadn't shown this 'feature' up.

 

[Chems]

I think the gap feature is the player not the disc. As in my car you can adjust this or remove it completely. I'm not 100% thou?

 

[JakeS]

I think the gap feature is the player not the disc. As in my car you can adjust this or remove it completely. I'm not 100% thou?

My understanding was that it was both. The disc has to be mastered for gapless playback, but if the player doesn't support it then it'll play with gaps anyway. I have owned CD players which didn't do gapless playback, but none of the ones I've used in the last decade have been without it. I'd consider it a problem with the device if it didn't, just 'cause it's so common you should really be able to expect it.

I can think of a couple of specific examples of albums I have on CD where one song runs into the next, which implies that it's something that's encoded into the disc. In fact, I seem to recall at least one Pink Floyd album where there's no silence between any of the tracks at all!

 

[RogerS]

Thanks guys. That is what I'd have expected.

JakeS....Dark Side of the Moon. and believe it or not was the disc I was playing when I suspected all was not as it should be with our new player.

 

[RogerS]

Well, long story short. The Philips DCB852 player ..although costing well over £200...does not support gapless audio CDs. So it's being returned for refund.

 

[marcus]

Crikey, CD players — remember them?! My grandma had one I think. Next to the wireless.... :wink: