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December 17, 2020

What will be the first album you will listen to with gapless playback?

  • December 17, 2020
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In courtesy of @Rudi replying to my suggestion in the related gapless playback announcement from seven months ago I’ll make a new thread with the same question. :wink: As all suffering desktop users know, gapless playback is neither working in the desktop app nor in the web player yet while most mobile users are already having gapless fun - scandal!  🕸️

So what will be the first album you will listen to when gapless playback is finally working in your app? Mobile users are tolerated to post their first album as well that they have listened to when gapless playback became available on their mobile device. :innocent: Also using MP3 streaming instead of HiFi is allowed, even if this may take longer to become available for your favorite album than HiFi gapless playback on desktop.

I’ll probably start with Richard Wagner’s complete opera cycle “Der Ring des Nibelungen”, all four operas in a row, more than 14 hours of sweet G_A_P_L_E_S_S HiFi lossless FLAC music. I’m undecided yet which performance and/or conductor to choose - Sir Georg Solti (famous first stereo release in the late 50s), Daniel Barenboim (live recording from the Bayreuth Festspielhaus in the 90s), hmm… :thinking:

 

 

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    Ps. What is gapless playback? 😃
     

    pps. Awww I seeeee, we don’t have gapless on Deezer! 
    in that case it’s definitely “The Wall” or “Is This The Life We Really Want?”

    Waters has a tendency to finish songs without any form of an end (I love it but it so requires a gapless pb…)

     

    or maybe “Seventeen Seconds” by The Cure

    or “Beyond the Maze” by Dreadful Shadows

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    SaraJaleh
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    SaraJaleh
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    July 8, 2021

    My first choice would be this:

    Link: https://deezer.page.link/KRh9eKfXh5Vv5DDd6
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    And thennn:

    Link: https://deezer.page.link/dq8Z5SXv1bqg1g6U9

     

      SaraJaleh
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      SaraJaleh
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      July 8, 2021

      Ps. What is gapless playback? 😃
       

      pps. Awww I seeeee, we don’t have gapless on Deezer! 
      in that case it’s definitely “The Wall” or “Is This The Life We Really Want?”

      Waters has a tendency to finish songs without any form of an end (I love it but it so requires a gapless pb…)

       

      or maybe “Seventeen Seconds” by The Cure

      or “Beyond the Maze” by Dreadful Shadows

        bluezzbastardzz
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        bluezzbastardzzAuthor
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        February 7, 2022

        Other famous albums affording gapless playback would be the first two by The Alan Parsons Project of course, especially side 2 of Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe with the The Fall of the House of Usher suite:

         

        And of course I Robot, probably even better known by ‘70s prog rock fans:

         

        By the way, I would prefer the Legacy Edition of this album on Deezer, but it is not fully available anymore, only the normal tracks from the regular album - probably a decision of the label or the artist himself.

        And talking about The Beatles, side 2 of Abbey Road, right? That Super Duper Deluxe Hastenichgesehn Edition still exists on Deezer:

         

         

        ZZee ya, Hans-Jürgen (Bluezz Bastardzz and Indigo Rocks, live album on Deezer, last.fm/user/hjbardenhagen)
        bluezzbastardzz
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        bluezzbastardzzAuthor
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        September 8, 2022

        Maybe it’s time to bump this thread up now that gapless playback is available for everyone in the web player. 😎 Currently I am listening to the complete Don Giovanni performances which I had saved in my related Deezer playlist. So far Furtwängler and Karajan had to go (sorry, guys), but e.g. Klemperer, Solti and Gardiner will definitely stay. The latter is with the English Baroque Soloists, so using a smaller orchestra with instruments from that time period or built with similar specs. Deezer has a compilation with all Gardiner recordings of Mozart operas (Don Giovanni starting on CD 9), but also a version of the single opera:

        https://deezer.page.link/FWarZjzbnzbrj8YK8

         

         

        ZZee ya, Hans-Jürgen (Bluezz Bastardzz and Indigo Rocks, live album on Deezer, last.fm/user/hjbardenhagen)
          bluezzbastardzz
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          bluezzbastardzzAuthor
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          June 30, 2023

          As you have probably guessed it by now, I love talking to myself, so I'll bump up this thread once more to come back to my very first recommendation of Wagner’s Ring des Nibelungen conducted by Sir Georg Solti, because Götterdämmerung (the last opera in this cycle) has been released today in a brand-new Remastered 2022 version on all streaming sites, even in HD resolution above CD quality and Dolby Atmos where available:

           

          So you can finally listen to about 16 hours of the complete Ring without gaps which sounds like a whole lotta fun, right? 😎 Don’t forget to make sandwiches and also provide enough beverages for the ride. Of course I’ll update my related playlist Decca Sound: The Analogue Years 1954-1980 on Deezer as well.

          ZZee ya, Hans-Jürgen (Bluezz Bastardzz and Indigo Rocks, live album on Deezer, last.fm/user/hjbardenhagen)
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