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Does anyone know any offline audio/media player app with the 'Skip silence' option? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Newpipe and Just (video) player have this function, but the former cannot play offline files and the latter cannot play audio files. I can rename the audio file to mp4 and play it in Just player, but it doesn't have a background play option.

From what I've searched on the net, in both apps the feature us implemented from ExoPlayer. On F-droid, Auxio audio player mentions ExoPlayer, but does not seem to have the feature available.
Are there any foss apps that has the feature to Skip silence for audio files?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

newpipe can play offline files I'm pretty sure
there is an ffmpeg flag to skip silences though it hasn't worked all that well for me. I don't know whether any audio player apps try to use it. In the worst case you could do something awful like run ffmpeg on a PC or under termux to make a new audio file with the silences removed, and then play that under some other app.
I don't remember whether rockbox had that feature but I think efforts to port rockbox to Android eventually stalled due to technical obstacles. No idea whether newer Android versions could help with that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

newpipe can play offline files I’m pretty sure

Don't think that this is true (unless we are talking about a fork that I am not familiar with). The FAQ has an entry on this and mentions that you need to use an external player. I use mpv and VLC.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

newpipe can play offline files

Really?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I believe so? It can download files and it can play them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

mpv player should be able to do it, if you install the script.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Thank you.
Found one on the net to be added into mpv.conf:
lavfi-complex='[aid1] silenceremove=1:0:-45dB:0:any:-1:0:-45dB:0:any:rms:0.002 [ao]'

Edit:
The above command causes the visuals to be out-of sync in videos.
Searched for an alternative and got to know that the api29 version apk of mpv-android allows the use of scripts.
The skip-silence script is quite good.

Along a tangent, the skipchapters script is also quite useful, that I've started to use mpv more than vlc due to these scripts.