I'm running the server on Linux and have Android apps and there is no gapless playback. This should be marked as a bug and not a feature request since Plex is not playing the music correctly.
This thread started in December 2012 and yet apparently nothing has been done; is there a reason why this bug hasn't been fixed? Would anyone from Plex like to comment?
Gapless playback is simply not supported natively on Android. AFAIK there are only a few music players that support it on Android.
At the moment you will get it on PHT (Plex Home Theater)
Again - this isn't a difficult item to do, even over the web. iTunes, Spotify, and many others have long past implemented this feature... I believe this is a matter of getting enough attention of the issue to the developers to show the real need here.
@mmonacel: It Looks like your quick Google search returns also many programs with no support for gapless playback.
IMO it would be great to have the pause between tracks reduced to zero for Android devices. This is not exactly gapless playback but could be implement in the Plex-App using the Google API's published for Android 4.1.
@mmonacel: It Looks like your quick Google search returns also many programs with no support for gapless playback.
IMO it would be great to have the pause between tracks reduced to zero for Android devices. This is not exactly gapless playback but could be implement in the Plex-App using the Google API's published for Android 4.1.
:) Of course there are. There's a million half-baked solutions out there by kids in their dorm rooms (and even some from actual companies!). I put Plex on the level of an iTunes or a Spotify. They've made their vision clear of being the de facto multimedia platform standard for the home. To that end, they've done a fantastic job to date and continue to impress me. That's why I'm happy to put my money in their pockets to support it. One area that needs improvement to help achieve this goal though is the music side of the house. That's no secret as it's common knowledge that there's much to be done in this area to be on par with how videos and other media are handled. Something like this is a key step in that direction.
I definitely agree with you that a zero gap is an improvement, however having done software for over two decades now, I can't believe that providing true gapless playback is such a large technical hurdle, especially since it's been solved many times over on various platforms. My guess is that this simply hasn't yet received the upvotes needed to up the priority in the product backlog. That's partially why these forums exist! :)
I definitely agree with you that a zero gap is an improvement, however having done software for over two decades now, I can't believe that providing true gapless playback is such a large technical hurdle, especially since it's been solved many times over on various platforms. My guess is that this simply hasn't yet received the upvotes needed to up the priority in the product backlog. That's partially why these forums exist! :)
Unfortunately Plex relies on the available frameworks for music playback. Some other music software brings it's own core player with gapless playback.
AFAIK PHT is the only exeption in the Plex-clients and comes with the paplayer from XBMC which is capable of gapless playback and crossfading.
I'm afraid, at least for Android the best we can hope for is zero-gap once it gets on top of the priority list.
especially for the iOS client for me. As perfect as Plex has become for video related media, the audio side of things seems to get not much love. I don't know how hard it is to implement gapless playback but in my opinion it's such a basic feature nowadays and it would make my media consumption so much easier and streamlined (one server to rule them all... [read: I really would like to be able to dump subsonic in favor of Plex for audio, too]).
I'd like to +1 this feature. I listen to a lot of themed cd's (Pink Floyd, Queensryche, etc.) as well as classical and soundtracks.
Is this something that can be implemented server side and it follow through to all clients or is this more of a client side feature? I can imagine you would want it to be an optional feature on the client side, although I can't imagine why anyone would want to disable it :)
