WiiM UPnP built-in renderer does not support gapless playback. It might be still doable but certainly a waste of time. The fact that I know how to write programs does not mean I have to do this for every piece of hardware I use, from my car to my network streamer. I have other thing to program for, thanks very much.
Hi, thanks for your reply. Are you casting from Amazon Music or from AM in the WiiM App? We haven't supported the gapless playback from Amazon Music casting yet. It'll be supported next month as stated in our roadmap. Please stay tuned! Thank you.
Dear @WiiM Support , I am not the OP but I have a good example which I've already described in my feedback sent from WiiM app: The Dark Side Of The Moon album by Pink Floyd. It is 24 bit / 96 kHz (UltraHD) album on Amazon Music and on Qobuz as well. All tracks are the same sampling rate. Try playing track one and wait for its transition to track two. The helicopter effect on Amazon Music stutters between tracks. Same transition plays seamlessly via Qobuz, the helicopter rotates smoothly around your head, without suddenly stopping in the air, then jumping.
It's true. My iOS iPad and my PC Amazon app clearly show differences within some albums, particularly reissues and compilations. Amazon just gives you the best that they get from the owner.
You can use UPnP merely to populate and play a Queue on the WiiM, which then takes over entirely, using its native access to the services; no need to push individual tracks via UPnP. This SHOULD be gapless, but gapless is something I personally could care less about, not having OCD about such trivialities.
Thanks. It's super helpful. We'll check your feedback and fix it ASAP.
He's talking about something different.
It is not, and that's what I was saying. GMrenderer (open source) can do gapless queue playback and has been able to do this for years. LinkPlay developers decided to reinvent the wheel, likely because of fear of licensing problems. Unfortunately, their version of the wheel is not exactly round, yet.
I'm not sure how you read me. Sample rates and depths do change sometimes from track to track within one album. That is revealed on the AM app on PC and iOS. Whatever did you think you read?
I guess it's personal preference there are certainly some albums you cannot play unless it's gapless.
I’m only using the Wiim app on iOS. Not casting from AM.
Alex settings in WiiM home app? I have it on... UHD casting is working on Iphone, not working on Android.
There are now two places to set it:
Hi Egbx, our engineers found the root cause. We have the fade-in and out for AM that we should disable it for the gapless playback. The gap that you're hearing is due to the fading. We'll fix it in our next firmware release (in early next week). Please stay tuned!
Hi Ralph, Murzik
Hi Brantome, mediocrebutarrogant
Power node with built in amp?
As a product support member from LinkPlay, I should give our best service in whatever places w/o bringing anything else that's unrelated to the product. But seeing this type of message in this well respected forum repeatedly just hurts (to say the least). If you look at LinkPlay's founder members and our core teams, we're global company and many of us are living in the Bay area and EU, also the company is headquartered in the Bay Area. By saying this, we're not shy of admitting many of our team are Chinese and we're very proud of that. By the end of the day, I hope the product and service that we bring to community defines who we're, not by where we're born or our ethnic. Thank you!
