True gapless playback not working

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Also Sweet Fades is awesome.

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EDIT: It just occurred to me that I might need to look closely at how I ripped the albums first. Canā€™t get it to work in other player either.

Now it works. Ripped to flac using foobar. So sorry for posting!

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I can confirm that gapless playback is working on these albums (when using Plexamp for Windows and the Android Plexamp app with Sweet fades turned on):

  1. Pink Floyd - The Endless River
    (an AMAZING piece of music if you havent checked it out yet, and sadly their last ever album)

  2. Deadmau5 - 4x4=12

  3. Collective Soul - Soul (LIVE)

  4. Ozzy Osbourne - Live & Loud

  5. U2 - Under a Blood Red Sky (LIVE)

  6. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (Gold Disc)

  7. Pink Floyd - Delicate Sound of Thunder (LIVE)

  8. Pink Floyd - Pulse (LIVE)

  9. TesseracT - Altered State (an ear-gasm / a MUST listen to with headphones at night with the lights off)

  10. Enigma - The Fall of a Rebel Angel

11 - Enigma - Voyageur

12 - Enigma - Le Roi mort, vive le Roi !

13 - Enigma - MCMXC a.D.

Feel free to add thse to the ā€œgapless playback worksā€ list of albums

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glad youā€™re enjoying

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Thanks, and now I am even more as it appears that SYNC/Download is finally working !!! It wasnt for me at all before. I didnt do anything different that I know soā€¦maybe on your end?

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i donā€™t think so, but hey, glad itā€™s working!

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Hi - first time poster, having recently signed up for Plex Pass. Iā€™m afraid gapless doesnā€™t work with any of my music, whether I use PlexAmp or the main Plex app. Iā€™m typically using an Android 11, casting to Chromecast Audio, but the same thing happens if Iā€™m not casting. Right now itā€™s the recent Quakers album.

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yeah thanks. Just wish they could fix the Alexa app for Plex so I could play my FLAC files as it wont play anything but MP3s but 99% of my collection is FLAC and Im re-ripping the MP3s to FLAC so its all high quality soā€¦

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How did you rip them?
only high quality files like FLAC or AAC or WAV will truly do gapless if you rip as an MP3 then gapless is a hit or miss and will usually have a small gap/pop in between songs
Ive tested it and it DOES work.
Use (EAC) ExactAudioCopy free software to rip your CDs to FLAC files and it will work just fine
try it
Check out the EAC forums for help on setting it up to get the best/most out of it

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They are not ripped, they are purchased MP3s. I have never had any problem playing gapless via other software (Google Play Music, Poweramp, MusicBee), just Plexamp.

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Ok well ability to get gapples depends on how you (or the music source provider) ripped them originally. Many folks only buy 1 song not the entire album and so gapless is not an issue to them so if the source is mainly selling single songs they also may not care.
I know in EAC there is specific settings to ensure that gaps are found and timed to know their length and then to delete them or not when ripping the msic to the FLAC or other formatted fileā€¦
so ā€œIT DEPENDSā€ā€¦ no one answer.
You will need to find out from the providerā€¦but if they are MP3s you cant guarantee a gapless playback since it depends on the source ripping settings and the final player (app / program ) etc.

Best of luck

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All of my collection plays gapless on other software, and always has done (GPM, MusicBee, PowerAmp, Winamp in the old days). This is an issue with Plex and Plexamp.

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It turns out that Plex and Plexamp donā€™t support gapless playback on Chromecast. Good to know what the problem is, annoying that I have to look for alternative software (again).

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Hi Fi Cast for Android works perfectly and does gapless on Chromecast. Iā€™m defining ā€˜gaplessā€™ as having no gaps. Plex should maybe take note of that definition.

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no gaps, got it.

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I have the same issue via Web playback of Plex. Is this normal?

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Web doesnā€™t do gapless.

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I like Plex/Plexamp for music server because of the good and fancy UI with metadata integration and unified server one-for-all.
User experiance is really close to ROON and for sure Itā€™s much better than in LMS. But ā€¦
Itā€™s still faraway from the Audiophile expectations, sonic and functionality wise.

I can understand the mass market approach in terms of movies and videos. But the sonic lovers and audiophils moreover are not the massmarket. Spotify is a masmarket, Tidal is not exactly, DSD, Aiff, WAV, FLAC and ALAC collectors are not for sure.

Sorry for my English and my frostration but you have stated " A beautiful Plex music player for audiophiles, curators, and hipsters."

Anyway, I keep my fingers crossed waiting for the new releases and I hope to see some real audiophile futures. Why not Plex/Plexamp ready music devices and real linux renderers :wink:

Take care!

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I find it interesting that on my desktop PC using Desktop version of Plesk app that I donā€™t get any ā€˜gaplessā€™ playback on my DJ-mixed albums. However, using Plex app via my iPad or Android phone and there are no issues at all.

Why would there be a difference between the 3? I would have thought a PC would have far more computing power to process the function of gapless playback?

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there shouldnā€™t be any difference between the two places, identical player and code.