Gapless (groan) with RoPieee and BubbleUpnp

[dartmoor]

(02-10-2023 21:22)simbun Wrote:  

(02-10-2023 20:57)dartmoor Wrote:  thankyou for going to the trouble to split tracks into tiny chunks.

I've been using them to test a WiiM Pro so it was no bother.

Code:

sox 01.01.flac output.flac trim 0 5 : newfile : restart

Just a thought, I assume you're playing FLAC files?

(02-10-2023 20:57)dartmoor Wrote:  The only difference between your arrangement and mine would appear to be either BubbleUPnp server (which I've not installed) or enabling openhome support in Ropieee.

I wasn't using BubbleUPnP Server in any of the tests, just the BubbleUPnP app with the 'Gapless control' setting enabled, and then with OpenHome enabled in Ropieee.

Assuming you have Gapless control enabled I can't think what it could be, as BubbleUPnP was playing gaplessly to the WiiM long before mconnect of Hi-Fi Cast were (a fix for the WiiM addressed this).

With OpenHome, the playback queue and the responsibility for advancing it is held on the renderer (Ropieee) rather than in the control point (BubbleUPnP), a much better solution all round.

Sadly there was only a marginal difference with the RoPieee Openhome checkbox enabled. mconnect was as before - gapless. BubbleUpnp may have reduced the gap (difficult to tell) - but it's still there with a click between each track. I installed and tried HiFiCast as well - the gap was huge - a good second.

I'm wondering if the Openhome player might prove better? I'm not familiar with it yet I see from their website that the Pi player requires 16MB memory??? A typo surely? I wasn't aware that such a thing existed.