windhoek
Prominent Member
One of the key missing jigsaw pieces in my streaming setup is finally missing no more: Chromecast Audio supports gapless playback, and apparently, it has done for time!
The solution is simple: initiate casting via the Google Home app first then open your media player and play music - it's that simple! For years I've been using the PLEX app to cast to my CCA and for years (or for some time at least) I've been missing out on gapless playback.
I've tested this with PLEX and Poweramp and both options work fine. I should add, I ran into problems when I tried using an old Android device whereby the Google Home app is limited to an old, unsupported version (version 2.29.1.7); the version on my other Android device (version 2.32.1.5) works perfectly.
I don't seem to be able to achieve gapless playback from my Macbook Air using the casting option built into Chrome, and I haven't tried to achieve it on a Windows machine either, so I can't say for sure whether gapless playback is or isn't doable on those platforms.
Fwiw, I've read lots and lots of pages on the web over the years hoping to find a solution to get gapless playback on my CCA but the post I read yesterday morning is the first and only one I've ever come across stating that CCA does support gapless playback (without having to utilise third-party workarounds like HiFi Cast) and that this is the very simple way to do it
Well done, Xanthe, over at Naim Forums for figuring it out and for letting the people know how to do it (the post was actually from October last year)!
The solution is simple: initiate casting via the Google Home app first then open your media player and play music - it's that simple! For years I've been using the PLEX app to cast to my CCA and for years (or for some time at least) I've been missing out on gapless playback.
I've tested this with PLEX and Poweramp and both options work fine. I should add, I ran into problems when I tried using an old Android device whereby the Google Home app is limited to an old, unsupported version (version 2.29.1.7); the version on my other Android device (version 2.32.1.5) works perfectly.
I don't seem to be able to achieve gapless playback from my Macbook Air using the casting option built into Chrome, and I haven't tried to achieve it on a Windows machine either, so I can't say for sure whether gapless playback is or isn't doable on those platforms.
Fwiw, I've read lots and lots of pages on the web over the years hoping to find a solution to get gapless playback on my CCA but the post I read yesterday morning is the first and only one I've ever come across stating that CCA does support gapless playback (without having to utilise third-party workarounds like HiFi Cast) and that this is the very simple way to do it
Well done, Xanthe, over at Naim Forums for figuring it out and for letting the people know how to do it (the post was actually from October last year)!