Do you successfully have gapless playback for music on GOS?

Rua

Since nobody responded to my previous thread, I decided to make a more direct, clear one.

The question is exactly what it says in the title. I want to know if fellow users routinely have the problem I've had (failure of ability to use gapless playback in whichever music app), or if I am rare in having this issue.

If the latter, this is useful to me to know, since it would say this isn't just a GOS usability issue I have to live with, but rather one I should keep seeking to fix.

Thank you in advance for your time.

nologo

Rua It seems highly unlikely this would be GOS-related.

Are the music files in a lossless format (flac, wav) or lossy (for example mp3)? The (often misunderstood) gapless playback feature usually won't work with compresssed audio files like mp3.

diabeetushomoxoxoluus

Rua I had a similar problem. I installed Auxio and everything works. The problem may also be in the music files

fid02

Rua
Gapless playback in the way you describe it does not require a "lossless" audio codec.

Lucario1829

so your music app pauses in between each song? yeah ive never had that issue or seen anyone with that issue in the forums or discord, and i cant imagine itd be an issue with graphene.

Rua

Thank you for your responses.

Nologo, I use lossy (mp3, m4a) files. Gapless playback works fine with them on my desktop computer (e.g., iTunes, foobar2000 on Windows, and maybe Strawberry on Ubuntu) and my old phone (Music app on iPhone).

Lucario, my old post linked above describes the problem in greater detail, but basically if I keep gapless playback enabled, each transition from a track to the next track leaves the new one playing silent, and I need to interact with the playback in some way (e.g., rewind) for the sound to come back.

It's interesting that no one else has run into this. Given it's occurred with both Metro and Vanilla Music on my GOS phone, and I read online this could be a problem with custom OS's, I figured the apps' interaction with GOS could be the problem. However, the data I get from at least you guys not reporting the issue or hearing of it (unless everyone is using lossless as Lucario hypothesized could be a solution) suggests I should be able to get it to work. I will keep digging.

Sigismund

Works fine for me with Poweramp. Using FLAC, mp3 and m4a

nologo

So after each track the playback just stops, until you interact with the player?

Rua

nologo The playhead actually keeps moving as if the new song is playing, but no sound comes out, until doing like rewind, fast forward, pause and then play, or whatever.

Thank you rest of you for your responses too. This is very helpful.

calpurtmun

Poweramp will do it and it also has an option to pay without using a Google account.

nashgraph

No problems with Neutron Player

cupcake-alibi

Booming Music (Retro Music fork) works great!

fid02

Rua The playhead actually keeps moving as if the new song is playing, but no sound comes out, until doing like rewind, fast forward, pause and then play, or whatever.

Does this also occur when the music is played through the phone's speakers when any external audio devices (Bluetooth, cable) are disconnected?

MotherShipton

I use Auxio too (available in the Accrescent Store) with a Mix of mp3, m4a and Flac files on my GOS tablet. It has always played gapless with no issues