My only experience of this issue that was repeatable was with Dark Side of the Moon from Qobuz, which some others found to be the case too.
With the latest early release the problem seems to have been sorted.
Thank you, Roon folk.
Michael
And thatās fine. You are not required to do it, itās a voluntary opportunity that many of us perform so that bugs are hopefully found before regular users get an update. I canāt recall anyone coming across this gap issue and posting about it in the earlyrelease area of the forum.
But if you wanted to do it, the clue is in the link that was posted. If you managed to install Roon, you manage to join early access, because it is the exact same procedure if you care to read it. (Well, the same with the exception of Nucleus/ROCK, but thatās manageable if you ever saved a file on a computer).
And thatās why the Early Release program exists.
However, software is the most complex thing built by humans. There will always be bugs. All we can do is to find the bad ones early enough and fix the ones that didnāt come up for anyone who was testing.
An annoying (not catastrophic) issue that affects an apparently small minority of people is not āa bad releaseā. NASA can say āIāve paid enoughā when they commission the operating systems for the James Webb telescope. 12 euros a month canāt buy it. Itās just a fact of life
A post was split to a new topic: Playback stops with shorter tracks
If I play the Qobuz āThe Dark Side of the Moonā track āSpeak To Meā and immediately jump to a point where there are 6 or more seconds left to play, the track plays gapless to the next track just as it should. If I jump to 5 seconds or less, there is a delay.
If I do this with a local copy, I can jump to the last 2 seconds and it plays gapless to the next track.
Again, using B1197ā¦
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Is this the 16/44.1 version? I cannot reproduce the issue with this. It is always gapless to the next track regardless of how close to the end I jump
There is a 24/196 (50th anniversary, 2023 remaster) version as well but all tracks are āunavailableā except #9
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I used the 24/96 versionā¦the 24/192 version is unavailable to me as well.
24/96 seems not available in Germany. Do you have the 16/44.1 and how is that? I am also on EA 1197 by the way.
Exactly the wrong ones on each side for a comparison 
Everything is fixed for me after version 1197
Experiencing the same with Hi Res files. Using Optical Rendu and NUC.
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I saw in this months Absolute Sounds (in the KEF LSX II review) a mention of Roon dropouts. The reviewer stated it was with MQA tracks. Wasnāt sure if it was the KEF app or Roon but ultimately blamed it on Roon.
Great reviewer. Figuring out your issues apparently isnāt part of the job anymore, letās just blame whatever.
Dropouts are nearly always network issues. Was he talking about dropouts or about the gapless playback that is the topic of this thread?
Roon Core Machine
Mac
Networking Gear & Setup Details
Virgin
Connected Audio Devices
Naim ndx2
Number of Tracks in Library
Description of Issue
Sometimes there is gaping between tracks that Segway when simply playing an album through from Qobuz eg dark side or the moon. Never noticed this before.
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This is currently a known issue for some people, a fix is in the works
Please Roon, get this fix into production soon, so that we can stop mentioning this album 10 times a day!!! 
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All part of the marketing scheme for the 50th anniversary edt. Just wait for the next reissue, and theyāll milk your wallets all over againā¦
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Lots of āGap Problemsā with lots of other albums here as well. Just sayingā¦
It was intended ātongue in cheekā. It is a difficult issue to pin down though, as it it is working just fine here. (Not just on DSOTM)
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Yes, all right - I didnāt mean it in a bad way either. My bigger problem than ānot always gaplessā is basically the long gaps when you do mixed playlists. I still have very long gaps often and hope that the new release will soon go into production. And that it will be fixed then.
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@UliR have you filed an individual support ticket? I know youāve posted extensively on your experience here, but the behavior you are having with significant gaps between every track from a different album than the previous track in either library or streaming is consistent with what I saw when I had networking issues. Mine eventually cleared up with DNS changes, relocating my core to the server rack, changing a few ethernet cables out (not better just different), and getting my music local to my core (ie not accessed from NAS). It took a month of fiddling and eventually recovered and has been rock solid ever since (18+ months). Iām not attempting to diagnose your specific situation, but rather to say that what you have might just be different than what others here have been experiencing, and Iām not sure the dev team is working on something to fit the issue that youāre experiencing. Which is awful. But based on my own ghost hunting that issue might be within your four walls and I donāt want to imagine youāre possibly waiting for a fix that wonāt come.
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