Google Chromecast Audio

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Just to be clear, the Chromecast Audio does not in itself support gapless playback. The Hi-Fi Cast Android app is actually performing the gapless playback of those FLAC, MP3 and AAC files, not the Chromecast. The Chromecast Audio is receiving the output of the Hi-Fi Cast app playing those files as a PCM stream, not the actual files themselves. If anything it is very similar to the Google Home app's function of the mirroring audio on the Android Device, so also resulting in similar battery drain.

The main difference between the output of the Hi-Fi Cast app playing the files that's being 'mirrored' and the mirroring that the official Google Home app performs, is that you are guranteed the ideal of a bit perfect transfer according to the Hi-Fi Cast app's developer and you are trusting to luck as to what the Google Home app is doing as far as the quality of the audio is concerned.