Gaplessness....

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(10-07-2019 20:43)tarnkappe Wrote:  you could try the Logitec Media Server with its upnp bridge plugin. AFAIK this does one single stream to the client, too, without any track changes. You can play from other upnp servers like minimserver or use the LMS as source.

Oh dear, one of the main points of my post (which admittedly did ramble on a bit, so perhaps it could have been missed) was that none of the "specialised software" methods mentioned by the OP (JRiver Media Center, OpenHome streaming & BubbleUPnP Server), provide a single audio stream (built from the current playlist's tracks) to the renderer over the network, so cannot be used to correct a renderer's lack of gapless playback support!

Also, you are almost correct about the UPnP/DLNA bridge LMS plugin. It normally uses SetNextAVTransportURI actions to get its associated UPnP renderers to play gaplessly, so this most certainly gets the renderer to play one stream per track in the current playlist. In fact this is no different to how the BubbleUPnP Server's Create an OpenHome renderer function handles gapless for its associated UPnP renderers, but of course the UPnP/DLNA bridge plugin's main purpose is to allow UPnP renderers to be used with LMS/Squeezebox controller apps rather than OpenHome controller apps.

However, unlike the BubbleUPnP Server, the UPnP/DLNA bridge plugin does have an optional special gapless playback & crossfade support function, named Flow, which does provide the single audio stream from the current playlist of tracks, you mentioned.


BTW, due to length of my last post, I decided to wait for a response from the OP before suggesting any specialised software that does combine all the tracks in the current playlist into a continuous single stream, like the UPnP/DLNA bridge LMS plugin's Flow option, to help UPnP renderers that don't do gapless.

Given that you have already mentioned one of them I may as well add to it now. So, apart from LMS and the UPnP/DLNA bridge plugin with the Flow option set, the only other application I can think of (and is a Windows only solution) that can provide a continuous audio stream to a UPnP renderer, is the foobar2000 audio file player with the foo_out_upnp fb2k plugin component.