Introducing Google Cast for audio

Re:Introducing Google Cast for audio by Reebles on Monday January 05, 2015 @12:21PM (#8839853)

Will we finally get gapless playback in the Chromecast's native music player? I've tried to use my Chromecast for music, but the gaps between tracks are just complete deal breakers for many albums. I had just assumed audio was not a priority for google.

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Re:Introducing Google Cast for audio by Navarr on Monday January 05, 2015 @12:31PM (#8839925)

Chromecast is just a web browser - so I imagine that's due to the client (which each service has their own, I think). Not sure what exactly they're doing for audio casting, but I imagine it's dependent on the service to implement properly

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Re:Introducing Google Cast for audio by radley on Monday January 05, 2015 @02:10PM (#8840512)

The sdk offers gapless playback but the OS still can't actually do it. Poweramp is one of the few apps that can do gapless, but it uses ffmpg instead of native.

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Re:Introducing Google Cast for audio by rikkus on Monday January 05, 2015 @01:42PM (#8840337)

It's a deal breaker for me, yes. It took years to persuade Spotify to fix this problem.

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