[MPlayer-users] Cd playback: MPlayer should start caching for next track already at the end of the current track to allow seamless playback

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 09:06:05PM +0100, Manuel Bärenz wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm playing back a concept album on CD with MPlayer. It assumes that the
> transition between two tracks is seamless.
> However, when a track ends, MPlayer takes some time to fill the cache
> for the next song again. This causes a pause, which sounds awkward.

I am fairly sure it does not when you just use cdda://.
If you specify separate tracks that is a slightly different case
and they will be treated each as a separate file with all side-effects
that has.