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[kmmcd]

I have been using MC22 for years with great success. The MC22 host PC streams standard and high definition files from a wifi router connected via wire to a network drive with no problem. I recently upgraded to MC25 and have noticed intermittent "gaps" between tracks that should play gaplessly. Sometimes the streams will play gaplessly, and sometimes the same streams do not. I do not recall this happening with MC22.
      I have not removed MC22 from the system, so I thought I could verify my memory of gapless performance by trying MC22 again. However, when I try to invoke MC22, I am faced with a user account panel, and presumably, subsequent re-authorization. I don't want to re-authorize MC22 if I don't have to, then re-authorize MC25, etc. etc.
     Any advice on how to debug my intermittent "gapless" issue?

[kmmcd]

Player prebuffering is set to 6 seconds (default). Unless there is another setting that is not set correctly (which is certainly a possibility), it would appear that prebuffering may actually not be occurring. Otherwise, 6 seconds of audio data is certainly longer then the gaps between tracks, which are a fraction of a second.

Insights are welcome.

[kmmcd]

FYI, the USB driver for my audio device is the latest version. Actually, it has always been the latest version.

Is anyone else experiencing this issue?

Is there a way that I can try MC22 without having to go through the whole authorization procedure both to try MC22, and then to resume running MC25?

[kmmcd]

I just received and installed the 25.0.45 update. I don't know whether it was supposed to, but it did not fix the problem of gapless playback.

Should 25.0.45 have fixed this problem?

Is there an easy way that I can run MC22 without having to go through the re-installation and re-authorization cycle?

Is anyone else observing this problem?

[DJLegba]

I'm not experiencing it. Check that MC25 is not converting to something like mp3 when streaming.

[kmmcd]

DJLegba:

MC is not converting to any unintended format. The PC is connected to my integrated amplifier (Yamaha A-S801 with integral DAC) via USB. The amplifier's front panel indicates the format of the input data stream, and it is correctly identified as expected. In the most recent case, a 96kHz file is identified, and the unit does not support mp3 anyway.

Yesterday, I installed the 25.0.48 update, and this did not fix the problem. (I don't know whether it was intended to.) When playing a recording that should play back gaplessly (in this case, Respighi's "Pines of Rome"), there was an audible gap between the first and second track of nearly a second in duration, while the second-to-third track transition played back gaplessly. Again, if this anomaly had been occurring during the years that I used MC22, I would have noticed, and I did not.

[BigSpider]

I have not seen any problems with gapless playback with MC25 whether playing from my NAS drive or from local files. I would assume therefore that something in your setup is causing the problem.

[Awesome Donkey]

No issues with gapless playback here when playing from a NAS in MC25.