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Gapless, ReplayGain & CUE sheets
Three features that let albums play the way they were meant to - no silence between tracks, no reaching for the volume knob, and whole-disc rips that behave like real track lists.
Gapless playback
Gapless means one track flows straight into the next with no silence in between, so a continuous album plays as a single unbroken piece.
You'll notice it most on live albums where the crowd never stops, on DJ mixes where tracks cross into each other, and on classical works where a movement is split across several tracks. A gap in any of those breaks the spell.
There's nothing to set up - it's just how playback works, whether you let a queue run in order or skip to a track. On the standard output path the handover is seamless. On the strictest exclusive output path you may hear a brief pause between tracks; that's a known trade-off for that mode and doesn't affect everyday playback.
ReplayGain
ReplayGain evens out the volume from track to track and album to album, so a loud pop single and a quiet acoustic record play at a comfortable, consistent level without you touching the dial.
It applies a small turn-up or turn-down at playback only - your files are never changed, and switching it off returns you to the untouched signal at once.
There are two modes:
- Track mode levels every track on its own. Best for shuffle and mixed playlists, where each song should land at the same volume no matter which album it came from.
- Album mode works out one adjustment for a whole album and applies it evenly. Best for playing an album end to end, because it keeps the quiet-to-loud dynamics the artist intended instead of flattening every track.
ReplayGain is free for everyone on playback, and it's off by default - the purist choice, leaving the signal untouched until you ask for leveling. The on/off switch and the mode choice live together in the app's settings.
Worth knowing: ReplayGain and a fully transparent signal path are opposites. When the app shows the honest bit-perfect badge, it's sending your hardware the exact original bits, so it can't also be nudging the volume. Applying any ReplayGain adjustment is one of the things that steps the badge down from bit-perfect to "processed." That's expected, not a fault: leave ReplayGain off for untouched bits, or switch it on and accept a gently leveled signal - the badge just tells you which you're getting.
Measuring your whole library ahead of time is a separate batch job, and analysing a large collection in bulk is one of the premium power tools rather than a free everyday feature. Playback with ReplayGain, once those values exist, is always free.
CUE sheets
A CUE sheet lets one large audio file behave as a full list of separate tracks - the usual shape for a whole-disc rip saved as a single file with a small companion index.
Vesari Stylus reads that index and treats every marked section as a real track - proper titles, individual play, a normal place in your queue - even though they all live inside one file.
Because those tracks come from a single continuous recording, they play through completely gaplessly: there was never a real gap in the source, and none is added. There's nothing to configure - point the app at a folder holding these files and their sidecars, and the individual tracks appear on their own.
Related: pick whichever mode suits the moment - album end-to-end or shuffle - and let the app keep the volume and flow consistent for you.