It seems that any music played on Plex (streaming) has a slight gap between all tracks. This may be ok for rock music, but is completely unacceptable in classical music, where the sound is continuous across tracks. Is there any way to get around this problem? I’ll have to drop my subscription, if not.
Thanks.
Depending on the client, there’s a gapless setting, I only play music through my phone, but there’s several icons at the bottom under the play button, one of them allows you to select gapless
Maybe you can point me to the setting. I see the icons, but not one that selects gapless
it’s the “Sweet Fades” setting… According to one of the Moderators here, this enables gapless, and so far it has worked flawlessly for me on my Electronic music CDs… one track goes right into the other without overlap and without gap (I was worried about the overlap when I saw the setting and therefore didn’t enable it at first)
So on an Android Device at least, go to the 4 little icons at the bottom, and turn on the switch for Sweet Fades…
That sounds worse. Some kind of synthesized fade-out and blend to the next track. That would be awful. I am just amazed that a company that holds itself out as expert in music doesn’t understand the simplest of features: no break between tracks, when they AREN’T there in the recording
For me, it’s not fading from one to the other, it’s going direct track to track with no gap, there’s no synthesized fade-out. That’s what I thought it was, until a mod asked me to turn it on, and low and behold, it goes track to track with no fade…
I don’t think I’ve seen anywhere say that they’re an “Expert in music” I mean clearly the entire premise of Plex is geared towards movies and tv mostly… That’s where the majority of the development seems to happen…
As for Gaps not being present in the recording vs being here now… On a CD, there’s little channels that can be written to, and each channel takes up a certain number of bits, these are similar to “packets” of data in a stream if you will… On a CD, the way they’re able to do gapless is by filling the channel/packet completely and starting the track at the beginning of the next channel/packet. When you make that song into an MP3, you’re removing bits, or conversely when you change it to flac, you’re either losing or gaining bits, and when you go to record those files back to CD, they will not be gapless again… this is why most audio cd’s that are continuous music are done in a .bin/.cue format. That .cue file tells the CD where to put the track skip so that it can completely fill the channel/packet completely. Otherwise, there will always be an inherent gap between them moving foward…
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