I’m not sure why Roon Support merged your topic (Chromecast not gapless on NAD C338 (again) into this topic (Tracks don’t start playing from Tidal without pressing pause and play (Chromecast Audio)). Both issues affect Chromecast Audio devices, but not playing at all (without pressing play for every song) and not playing gapless are different issues. Hopefully a solution for both is being worked on.
It seems like your post would fit better in either of these two active topics: