usc95 wrote: > Gapless is the only thing keeping from me from recommending the > Chromecast Audio to people I know as a worthwhile solution to the whole > home audio question. In my playing with the device I couldn't even get > gapless to work with Google Music. Spotify however will play gapless on > the CCA. Does anyone know how they managed to get it to work? I guess > Spotify Connect is a different sort of protocol than the usual casting > protocol? I am not a developer, just curious why Spotify Connect will > work but nothing else.
CCA uses HTML5 Webaudio which means it plays http URLs - no special streaming protocol. I haven't checked Spotify but the main ways gapless on CCA (and also on browser based players) has been working is by sending a single format stream (i.e. all source tracks are converted into same output format possibly with silence inserted as required) either as a single http streaming (e.g. as MP3 or PCM) or as chunked http as in HLS, HDS and DASH. However due to HTML5 MSE - chunked http have to use lossy compression which usually means aac for audio. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104614 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
