I am a relatively new user of Media Center, since April, and am trying to figure out if this is typical behavior for gapless audio playback.
My HTPC is connected to an Anthem MRX500 via HDMI.
When playing an album such as The Beatles Abbey Road, gapless playback works as expected for tracks 10, 11, 12 & 13 where there is audio at the very end and beginning of the adjacent tracks. However when there is dead silence between the tracks, as in tracks 1 & 2, it appears that the data stream to the A/V receiver stops between the tracks and the A/V receiver briefly reports 'No Signal'. Unfortunately this produces an audible click as the A/V receiver reacquires the data stream at the start of track 2.
Is there any way to configure Media Center so that it does not stop the data stream between tracks when there is silence?
The audio is encoded as MP3 files and here are the particulars of my Media Center configuration:
Media Center 19.0.38
Audio Device
AMD HDMI Output (AMD High Definition Audio Device [WASPI]
Checked - Open device for exclusive access
UnChecked - Disable event style
Checked - Maximize device volume during playback
Checked - Play a litte silence on DoP stop
Bitdepth - Automatic
Buffering - 100ms
Settings
DSP & output format
Output Encoding - None
Channels - 5.1
Mixing - JRSS mixing
JRSS Subwoofer (120 Hz lowpass)
Checked - Subclarity
Volume Leveling - Enabled
Adaptive Volume - Enabled - Peak Level Normalize
Bitstreaming: None
Prebuffering: 6 seconds
Play sielence at startup for hardware synchronization: 3 seconds
Play files from memory instead of disk: Disabled
Disable display from turing off - Enabled
Track Change
Switch track Cross-fade (smooth) - 0.2s
Do not play silence (leading and trailing) - Disabled
Use gapless for sequential album tracks - Enabled
Stop, Seek & Skip
Seek: Smooth (normal)
Stop: Fadeout (normal)
Jump behavior: Forward 30 seconds, backward 10 seconds
Volume
Volume Mode: Internal Volume
Volume Protection - Disabled
Maximum volume: 100
Internal volume reference level: 100
Loudness - Disabled
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank You