Banshee gapless playback does not work when playing mp3s

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Published on 2012-09-10T02:01:54Z Indexed on 2012/09/10 3:48 UTC
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Even though I have gapless playback enabled in Banshee's settings menu, there is a very short pause between songs. This might be due to the fact that my hard drive's partitions seem wierd. fdisk -l produces this output:

Disk /dev/sda: 750.2 GB, 750156374016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders, total 1465149168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x4a73c3cb

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *        2048      409599      203776    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2          409600   724153740   361872070+   7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3      1456826368  1465145343     4159488    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda4       724154366  1456826367   366336001    5  Extended
Partition 4 does not start on physical sector boundary.
/dev/sda5      1440159744  1456826367     8333312   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6       724154368  1440159743   358002688   83  Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Playing mp3's from /dev/sda2 or /dev/sda6 produces this problem. I don't seem to have gapless playback on Rhythmbox or Clementine either, if those media players are supposed to have it.

I'm not sure what other info to provide. This is just annoying to me. Thanks for any help.

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