Gapless playback in Roon

[Geoff_Coupe]

That’s not the case; Roon delivers a gapless stream to Chromecast devices, but it is reliant on having a network with good real-time response. See:

Chromecast and gapless playback not always working

Let me explain the situation and where the issue most likely resides. There is a lot of guessing about updates and gapless support, so let me clarify with certainty: We always have a gapless stream to the Chromecast audio engine. The audio engine of the Chromecast does not know about song boundaries when we play to it. Many other products will play a stream, and then terminate the connection to the audio engine, and then reconnect to it to play another stream. We do not do that because the Roon…