ashleyw wrote: > it looks like there is an interesting thread about this and according to > google the device itself is actually capable of gapless playback but the > app needs to support it - I can't confirm myself which apps have been > modified (at one stage it was google music and Spotify, but the last > comment said this feature was broken with a release of CCA firmware) - > it's hard to read the truth in that forum posting; > https://code.google.com/p/google-cast-sdk/issues/detail?id=745 > > In terms of volume equalisation, right now all my listening comes from > Spotify streaming and tunein (as I haven't had the time to re-rip my old > CDs into FLAC), Spotify themselves have an option to equalise the > volumes of their tracks, meaning this is a non issue for me - so taking > everything into account, the chormecast audio still wins the day for me > - it's a far simpler, modern and cheaper solution that really does work > well (at-least for me). All my playlists currently refer to Spotify > tracks. > > thanks for your comments - i guess i was always a lightweight > squeezelite user and the two features that i really wanted (multi room > audio sync and native Spotify app integration), either weren't available > or didn't work consistently (especially the sync on wired and/or > wireless). > > I'm going to pull out the hifiberry daughter board on one of the rpis > and re-purpose it as a Home Assistant server; https://home-assistant.io/
I think the confusion with gapless is that you can actually "fake" gapless with a CCA and the default receiver application by aggregating tracks "on the fly" while sending them to the device. Typically, in my ChromeCast bridge, I could uncompress all to PCM and then send the result as a very long stream - that would give gapless, replaygain, fade in/out etc ... this is what I do with the AirPlay bridge. But in CCA that would prevent proper metadata update and make the display synchronization with LMS (what track is being played and at what position) very complicated. Some uPnP players can do gapless because the controler can send data for two tracks at the same time: the current one and the next one and the player automatically switches. It might also be possible to write a custom receiver that does the same, that I don't know, but the built-in receiver does not allow that (or at least there is nothing documented). LMS 7.7.5 - 5xRadio, 3xBoom, 4xDuet, 1xTouch, 1 SB2. Sonos 2xPLAY:1, PLAY:3, PLAY:5, Marantz NR1603, JBL OnBeat, XBMC, Foobar2000, XBoxOne, JRiver 21, Chromecast Audio, Chromecast v1, Pi B2, Pi B+, 2xPi A+, Odroid-C1, Cubie2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ philippe_44's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17261 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106113 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
