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My dad (musician and moderate audiophile) recently got a 2014 A6. He has hundreds of CDs and has been ripping them to the HDD for playback. Lots of his CDs are concerts with continuous, connected audio through all the tracks. When he plays these concerts (or any album) back, the MMI inserts a ~1 second gap of silence between each song. It is infuriating him since it breaks the continuous audio of the concert.
Some notes:
If he plays the same CD back from the CD player (not HDD) no silence is inserted and audio plays continuously
His old car (Acura TL) had HDD ripping and did not insert silence between songs.
Other cars with HDDs we have tested, (Mercedes, Lexus) do not insert this gap.
Laptops do not insert this gap.
Do any of you use the HDD experience the same gap in your cars? Does anyone know if there is a VAG-COM fix for this?
DeerHunter
07-09-2014, 10:34 PM
When the HDD rips the songs, it converts them to MP3. It seems that Audi MMI does not support gapless playback, unfortunately. It's not inserted, BTW, but inherent to the MP3 format. iTunes, for example, calculates and saves an offset value to compensate for this gap, but if the playback equipment doesn't recognize it, you're SOL.
If he wants to eliminate the problem, he will have to rip his own MP3s, creating one big file for each concert or movement. Exact Audio Copy is a great ripping tool that will do this automatically, if you set it up properly.
When the HDD rips the songs, it converts them to MP3. It seems that Audi MMI does not support gapless playback, unfortunately. It's not inserted, BTW, but inherent to the MP3 format. iTunes, for example, calculates and saves an offset value to compensate for this gap, but if the playback equipment doesn't recognize it, you're SOL.
If he wants to eliminate the problem, he will have to rip his own MP3s, creating one big file for each concert or movement. Exact Audio Copy is a great ripping tool that will do this automatically, if you set it up properly.
Thanks for the response! I will look into gapless playback. The dealer says they can fix it for $55 so I'm trying to figure out what they are doing. I assumed it was some kind of VAG-COM mod.
DeerHunter
07-10-2014, 09:01 AM
Thanks for the response! I will look into gapless playback. The dealer says they can fix it for $55 so I'm trying to figure out what they are doing. I assumed it was some kind of VAG-COM mod.
No problem. I'd be interested to find out if they can enable gapless playback, and even more interested in the procedure used. Please keep us posted.
Thanks for the response! I will look into gapless playback. The dealer says they can fix it for $55 so I'm trying to figure out what they are doing. I assumed it was some kind of VAG-COM mod.
Bringing back this old thread as I just found it while searching for a solution to this issue for my brand new 2016 Audio q5, which still does not support gapless playback from an SD card. Would love to find out if the dealer was able to fix this, and what they did.
Thanks!
After we agreed to the $55, the dealer admitted they didn't actually know how to enable it so we still don't have gap less.
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