Nov 06 2009

S60 gapless playback for your music files with FolderPlay

Posted by Ade as Software

I’ve made the move of dumping my iPod (at least temporarily until the iPod touch gets a 100+ gig iteration) and put my music on my Nokia E63. It’s got a decent playlist maker, a great equalizer (better than the iPod’s I must say), it even supports audioscrobbling (with Mobbler), and carrying around one device instead of two saves me a bit of space.

One disadvantage to using the built-in S60 player is that it doesn’t support gapless playback. This usually isn’t a problem, but when I’m playing an album such as Brian Wilson’s SMiLE, it can get pretty annoying. Thank goodness there’s FolderPlay for the S60.

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FolderPlay is an audio application for Symbian OS, that gaplessly plays back a subset of the directory structure with orientation on lossless formats and supports the following audio file types: WAV, LPCM, FLAC, APE/MAC, AC3, MP3, OGG, AAC (ADTS).

FolderPlay works beautifully with the Beatles’ LOVE. However, it has a pretty ugly UI (it’s just practically a file manager) and it doesn’t have an equalizer or audioscrobbler yet.

Download FolderPlay here.

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Alexander Ewering
27|Feb|2010

Unfortunately, seeking doesn’t work with WAV files… and it also doesn’t really play the DJ mix I’ve just uploaded as MP3 files ‘gaplessly’, there’s still a very audible gap between the files. Though that might be because of CD-Ex which I used to convert the WAVs to MP3s… but not sure…

Anyway, not really quality software

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