# Eliminate delay between playing tracks which go together **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussions\ **Created:** [May 5, 2018, 10:33pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/eliminate-delay-between-playing-tracks-which-go-together/234787 "2018-05-05T22:33:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![djjd47130](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecccb3/32.png) [@djjd47130](https://forums.plex.tv/u/djjd47130)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2018, 10:33pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/eliminate-delay-between-playing-tracks-which-go-together/234787/1 "2018-05-05T22:33:42Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2018, 12:26am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/eliminate-delay-between-playing-tracks-which-go-together/234787/2 "2018-05-06T00:26:07Z")
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](http://plexamp.com) this one is currently the only Plex client with real ‘gapless’ ability. ---
**Author:** ![djjd47130](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecccb3/32.png) [@djjd47130](https://forums.plex.tv/u/djjd47130)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2018, 2:35am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/eliminate-delay-between-playing-tracks-which-go-together/234787/3 "2018-05-06T02:35:52Z")
> @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](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. ---
**Author:** ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2018, 3:04am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/eliminate-delay-between-playing-tracks-which-go-together/234787/4 "2018-05-06T03:04:26Z")
> @djjd47130 said: > Interesting app. Not sure if I like it. A bit TOO simple for me. Play a bit longer with it. ---
**Author:** ![bialar467](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@bialar467](https://forums.plex.tv/u/bialar467)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2018, 9:47pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/eliminate-delay-between-playing-tracks-which-go-together/234787/5 "2018-05-07T21:47:44Z")
> @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](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. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2020, 1:00am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/eliminate-delay-between-playing-tracks-which-go-together/234787/6 "2020-01-08T01:00:31Z")