[Bug] Gapless playback does not work

This has been discussed elsewhere, but since it is a bug I will re-post it here.

Gapless playback does not work with Chromecast as advertised here. The Chromecast protocol supports it just fine. Competitors (Roon, HiFi Cast) support it.

But it does not work with Plex, and it does not work with Plexamp.

A second of silence in between all tracks of a live album, classical album or any other “gapless” album makes Plex unusable and frankly infuriating.

Please fix this glaring oversight.

To be perfectly clear, Chromecast works by running a totally different player stack and streams directly from the source itself. Plexamp has a gapless player; The Chromecast Plex receiver does not.

“The Chromecast protocol” doesn’t really mean anything, unless you mean the communication between the caster and receiver, in which case it mentions nothing about gapless.

In cases where Chromecast is playing gaplessly it’s because (a) the receiver app has been coded to support it (which is tricky from what I understand) or (b) more likely, the server (wherever the Chromecast is streaming from) is “stitching” the stream together to make it gapless.

The topic was moved to this subforum by one of your staff.

I understand that the Plexamp and Chromecast players are completely separate. But you have Chromecast as a streaming option in the Plexamp app, so from an end user’s perspective, there is no difference.

And I assume you would work cross-team to solve this bug on the Plex Chromecast server.

  • Are you aware of any attention to this problem within some of the Plex developer teams?

  • And have the Plexamp developer team tried to play a continuous album (classical etc.), streaming to Chromecast and evaluated whether this is an enjoyable listening experience?

Edit: While it will require some tinkering to make it work, it is not like this is an impossible feat. Roon does it just fine.

@elan Can you please answer the previous post? And if you feel it is not relevant for your team, can you please move the topic to the appropriate forum so it doesn’t die here, like so many others?

Gapless support for Chromecast is not currently being worked on.

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