Gapless Playback is not quite

[Gameforce20]

I'm not a gapless playback freak, but I decided to give it a try by listening to a mixtape I occasionally listen to. The gap is much shorter, but it is still there.

[Sam]

Hey,

Did this music involve local files at all? If so, Gapless Playback hasn't been implemented on local files just yet. I'm sure it's being looked at though.

[Gameforce20]

No, it wasn't a local song, but then again, it could be the mixtape itself. I don't have any continuous music, so I don't have anything else to test it on. It's Bird Money by Gucci Mane.

[IetsmeteenS · Accepted solution]

I think it's the album. I have a lot of albums where Gapless playback works excellent. 

[spacejason3d]

Gapless Playback works great for actual albums, but it doesn't work for playlists that I create.  I really wish it would.  There seems to be something intentionally coded to prevent that.  Songs on a playlist that play in the same sequence as their album don't have gaps.  

If gapless playback could be enabled for playlists, or if you could set cross-fade times for individual tracks somehow, it would improve the "mixtape" use of spotify immensely.  

[TheCrat]

Nothing I play now is gapless, even though I have the gapless playback option checked and I even have crossfade tracks on. I play a lot of albums with music continuous through track breaks [Wagner Operas, for instance, but think Abbey Road side 2 also] and there are always brief gaps in the music when tracks change. This used not to be the case. Is there something wrong with the current version of Spotify? [I subscribe to Spotify Premium]

[Peter__]

Which app is this on @TheCrat ?

[jeremygoh]

Thumbs up. This is somewhat solved. But there's still an issue with gapless playback when playing back through the playlists.

Jeremy.

[TheCrat]

Someone asked what app I use.

I use Spotify Premium on my Mac Tower.

[TheCrat]

Spotify Premium on my Mac Tower

[Peter__]

@TheCrat - That is unfortunately a known bug:

http://community.spotify.com/t5/Bugs/Desktop-Gapless-Playback-and-Crossfade-Broken/td-p/653360