I use Plex widely for streaming music. I have many albums in my library, and many of those albums have tracks which are supposed to blend together.
Unfortunately, when playing an album on Plex, there is about a 1 second delay between these songs, which kinda destroys the whole listening experience.
Is there a way I can fix this? It’s rather annoying, and for some media, I’m better off just burning a CD and playing that instead. Which defeats the whole purpose of Plex.
Also known as ‘gapless’ playback.
This is currently not posiible in regular Plex clients.
If you are playing music on a desktop computer or a laptop, I recommend you to try http://plexamp.com
this one is currently the only Plex client with real ‘gapless’ ability.
@OttoKerner said:
Also known as ‘gapless’ playback.
This is currently not posiible in regular Plex clients.If you are playing music on a desktop computer or a laptop, I recommend you to try http://plexamp.com
this one is currently the only Plex client with real ‘gapless’ ability.
Interesting app. Not sure if I like it. A bit TOO simple for me.
Thinking back to almost 20 years ago, I remember when having a CD player that could smoothly transition between tracks was a huge deal. One could only imagine that modern technology would just work like this up front. Instead, we’re focusing technology on faster cars, and prolonging erections. I wish some of that effort was put into music playback. Especially when I’m paying for a premium service.
@djjd47130 said:
Interesting app. Not sure if I like it. A bit TOO simple for me.
Play a bit longer with it.
@djjd47130 said:
@OttoKerner said:
Also known as ‘gapless’ playback.
This is currently not posiible in regular Plex clients.If you are playing music on a desktop computer or a laptop, I recommend you to try http://plexamp.com
this one is currently the only Plex client with real ‘gapless’ ability.Interesting app. Not sure if I like it. A bit TOO simple for me.
Thinking back to almost 20 years ago, I remember when having a CD player that could smoothly transition between tracks >was a huge deal. One could only imagine that modern technology would just work like this up front. Instead, we’re focusing >technology on faster cars, and prolonging erections. I wish some of that effort was put into music playback. Especially when >I’m paying for a premium service.
I’ll be honest, after 20 years I still haven’t found something better than WinAmp for music playback on Windows (and I really have been using it since 1997). It reads/plays everything, does gapless playback with any format that can support it, and has a brain-dead simple UI (which is customizable). The media library/browser is simple and straightforward and doesn’t try to re-organize your stuff or screw up your tags like some others. There is obviously a lack of integration with your Plex library here, but at least in a Windows environment that’s not really a big deal - WinAmp can point at the same source files as your PMS.
Every app I’ve tried has some critical flaw; iTunes is a slow-moving ever-growing trainwreck, Foobar is powerful but unfriendly, and I also thought plexamp was far to minimal to be useful for me (even annoyingly so). I wanted to use Plex/Roku for my home theater playback instead of WinAmp on the HTPC, but the lack of gapless playback is a deal-breaker. No gapless and/or a terrible UI are almost always what I run into.
WinAmp been defunct for a few years but the last version released (5.666) is still free and available for download from them and works perfectly, and I use it on a regular basis. It even plays my 5.1 surround 24bit FLAC SACD rips perfectly (and gapless). Supposedly it’s been bought up and there will eventually be a new version, but at least until the next amazing audio format comes out, WinAmp is still where it’s at.
