ffmpeg + sox transcoding and gapless playback

[simoncn]

(23-10-2016 05:45)krutsch Wrote:  Is it possible that something is being dropped off the end of the converted audio stream? It almost sounds like a sample is missing at the end of the previous/next track, causing the slight tick.

I have tested this many times and I have never found a difference between the output from on-the-fly conversion and offline conversion.

You can check this for yourself by getting the URL for the on-the-fly converted stream using a control point that can show stream URLs (e.g., BubbleUPnP or Kinsky Windows), then using a tool such as curl or wget to download the stream from that URL and save it as a file. You can then use a file comparison program to see whether the contents of this file are different from the offline converted file.