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The AI fixed the gapless playback on mp3s I ripped 20 years ago

A large part of his ripped CD collection had broken gapless playback. The AI looked through the mp3 files, found that a library program had added four frames of silence to each track, and removed exactly those four frames from every track, and playback is seamless again.

How it works

  1. Asks the AI to examine the mp3s and work out what happened
  2. It finds four extra frames of silence were added to each track by a media library program
  3. It removes exactly those four frames from each track
  4. Gapless playback works again

Why it’s worth knowing

Nobody could tell from listening what was wrong with the files themselves. The agent found four silent frames hiding in every track and cut only those out.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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