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[Kid Twist]

In one of my zones, I have MC set to play to a Chromecast Audio via Bubble UPnP. Sometimes when I select an album, it will pause on the first track for a few seconds, then jump to the second track and begin playback from there. Any idea how to prevent this? Thanks.

[bob]

In one of my zones, I have MC set to play to a Chromecast Audio via Bubble UPnP. Sometimes when I select an album, it will pause on the first track for a few seconds, then jump to the second track and begin playback from there. Any idea how to prevent this? Thanks.

That might happen if it takes more than 5 seconds for the Chromecast to process the first track. Is this the case?
You also might try turning off the SetNext support for the Chromecast audio zone in MC. (right-click on the zone and look for the DLNA controller options).

[Kid Twist]

Yes, sometimes it does seem to take quite a few seconds for the track to cue up. Disabling SetNext seems to help. Will monitor the situation and see that continues be the case.

[AndrewFG]

It might be a firewall or an antivirus problem..

• Some makes of antivirus delay forwarding of media file data to the application while they scan the track for viruses.
• Some makes of firewall delay forwarding of download requests (HTTP GET commands) to the application while they check the syntax.

[Kid Twist]

Thanks, but I'm just the standard Windows firewall and I'm not currently running an anti-virus program.

[JimH]

I didn't know that the Chromecast device even supported DLNA.  I'm guessing that Bubble is using DLNA to talk to JRiver and native Chromecast to talk to it.  In which case, I think JRiver is off the hook. 

You could try another DLNA server, just to see what happens.  Maybe you'd learn something.

[DJLegba]

Could it be caused by "waiting for drive to spin up"? I see this sometimes too when playing to CCA via Bubble, but only on the first playback during a session. My library is on an external hard drive, and I always assumed that waking up the drive was the source of the problem.

[Kid Twist]

Yes. I'm using Bubble as an intermediary between MC and Chromecast. I figured that the problem wasn't JRiver's issue, but I hoped there was a setting somewhere that would compensate. The SetNext suggestion above helped a bit. Maybe when I get some time I'll seek out an alternative to Bubble and see if it's any speedier. Thanks.

[Kid Twist]

Could it be caused by "waiting for drive to spin up"? I see this sometimes too when playing to CCA via Bubble, but only on the first playback during a session. My library is on an external hard drive, and I always assumed that waking up the drive was the source of the problem.

You might be onto something. I have my files on a networked hard drive and this tends to happen at the start of playback.