Not an important feature for me. When I sync my SBs it's usually
because I want background music all over the house, and a small gap
isn't so critical for background music.
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ephemere
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I've been using slimserver for years on windows, streaming flac files
gaplessly to my SB1 and SB2 with no trouble.
I just switched from windows to ubuntu, in the process upgrading from
(I think) 6.5.1 to 6.5.4. There are now small gaps of a fraction of a
second between all tracks. This happens
Mystery solved. The reason turned out to be
[D] I had the two squeezeboxes synchronized
Apparently, gapless playback doesn't work with synchronization. I had
never tested this before, since I rarely synchronize my squeezeboxes.
I don't know if this is a known issue.
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ephemere
Yes, it's a well-known issue. When synchronizing SBs, slimserver
re-syncs at the beginning of each track, to correct for the SBs
drifting out of sync. There is work being done on improving
synchronization, but I don't know for sure if improvements there will
spillover into making sync+gapless a
