Gapless playback with Chromecast Audio

[33.3rpm]

Is gapless playback possible with Chromecast Audio? It is such a great device but am listening to Stars of the lid in ambient lighting and would be nice if the tracks changed without the brief pause.

 

[Tumeni Notes]

Surely this is determined by the app which is casting to the CCA?

 

[beammeup]

I think using it as a Roon endpoint allows for gapless playback

 

[rtrt]

It does but there can be issues - I'm on wifi just now with one of my CCAs and I do have gapless working but intermittently. Interesting post here -

https://community.roonlabs.com/t/chromecast-and-gapless-playback-not-always-working/166636/5

 

[windhoek]

There are ways of making it work but, in the end, I bought a Bluesound Node 2i to ensure gapless playback of local files and relegated my CCA to my bedroom system. If you play music through the Google Home app well the app can play gapless, but I think I read somewhere that it transcodes the audio to mp3 first. There's the Hi-Fi cast app as well which can do gapless. But like I say, for peace of mind/end the frustration I just bought a Bluesound Node 2i to be done with it.