Zine of Millie EX5, the final issue in the EX series of my long-running #Decker e-zine, is now in existence for you to read. Please read it and talk to me about it and such! Things be rough but I did make the thing!
https://zine.milliesquilly.com/ex/ex5.html or go to https://zine.milliesquilly.com/ for back issues
@milliesquilly The idea of a CD player that can't play "gapless" output is crazy to me. A CD just has one long spiral track from the inside to the outside, and if you just start at the beginning and play all the audio you see, you'll get gaplessly to the end.
If a CD player skips between tracks, it might be because they explicitly seek from one track to the next even when its coming up anyway (like a shuffle mode that doesn't actually shuffle), or it might be because they're trying to "rip" the digital audio and for whatever reason they're trying to do it a track at a time rather than a continual stream.
Either way, that sounds terrible. :(
@milliesquilly That might explain it, yeah. Audio CDs are old enough that they were designed to be standalone devices, not hooked up to a computer, so the interface is designed to be "disc goes in, analogue waveform comes out". I think early CD-ROM drives couldn't extract digital audio data at *all*, and even on later drives it was never intended to be able to provide reliable, efficient playback.
I guess these must be audiophile devices because they're prioritising lossless digital signal processing over the intended experience.
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