setSkipSilence

Shortens the silent stretches of the sound (#429), for a podcast or an audiobook: every pause longer than a fifth of a second is cut down to a fifth of a second, with a short fade at each side of the cut so it never clicks, as Media3's skip silence and the trim silence of podcast players do. A pause shorter than that, between two words, is left as it is. It works with any setSpeed, and the two together are what a listener in a hurry turns on.

The position, the subtitles, the lyrics and the lock screen follow every cut, because each one is dated in the audio clock where it is heard. It acts only while no picture is shown, so on an item with no video, one whose only picture is its cover, or one whose video is turned off with setVideoEnabled; a picture would have to follow each cut. A live stream is never cut, because cutting would only reach the live edge sooner and then wait for it. Off, the default, costs nothing and leaves every sample as it was. A change is heard once the audio already buffered has played, as a setBalance change is. Published as PlayerSnapshot.skipSilence.