A list of Atmos mixes that require gapless playback

[Owen Smith]

So I gave up on the network streaming option, at least for now. Plugging a USB drive or thumb drive into the Oppo works well but again is not gapless! IMHO gapless playback should be designed in right form the start, it's perhaps the most important parameter!
What were they thinking?!!

The Oppo 203/205 does gapless, except the implementation is flawed and I get occasional clicks or very small gaps between tracks.

I'm trying to find something that will play albums as a folder of FLACs gaplessly from locally attached USB drive, but coming up short. That's what I bought my Oppo 203 for but it comes up short. Wiim Ultra builds a database and won't let you play direct from the folder structure I am told. Cambridge Audio streamers expect everything to be in a folder called Music. AudioLab streamers won't even play from local USB media. I despair, why is playing from USB media such an afterthought with these streamers?

 

[SeeMoreDigital]

The Oppo 203/205 does gapless, except the implementation is flawed and I get occasional clicks or very small gaps between tracks.

I'm trying to find something that will play albums as a folder of FLACs gaplessly from locally attached USB drive, but coming up short. That's what I bought my Oppo 203 for but it comes up short.

My usual 'go-to' audio files for testing gapless playback is the medley from The Beatles, Abbey Road (tracks 09 to 16). I've encoded the tracks in a number of different 2-channel audio formats (including flac) for testing with hardware SoC media players. I can't say I remember my OPPO UDP-203 having problems. Are your flacs 2-channel or multi-channel?

Personally though I prefer back-up my audio discs into a continuous audio stream and use a cue sheet navigation file...

 

[Owen Smith]

Are your flacs 2-channel or multi-channel?

All 2 channel.

Personally though I prefer back-up my audio discs into a continuous audio stream and use a cue sheet navigation file...

Too late, I already have half my CD collection as FLACs per track. I never got my head round cue sheets, FLACs seemed the obvious solution to me as a computer programmer.

 

[Owen Smith]

I can't say I remember my OPPO UDP-203 having problems.

Sometimes it's OK, it varies from disc to disc.

 

[SeeMoreDigital]

Too late, I already have half my CD collection as FLACs per track. I never got my head round cue sheets, FLACs seemed the obvious solution to me as a computer programmer.

The way I started my .cue sheet journey was by backing up my listened to albums where the tracks lead into each other, such as Abbey Road and all the Pink Floyd albums. Eventually I found an CD back-up application called CUERipper [v2.2.5], which makes the entire process easier.

Sometimes it's OK, it varies from disc to disc.

What back-up application do you use? Do you encode directly to flac or pcm.wav first, then pcm.wav to flac?

 

[HomerJAU]

Streamers are designed to stream. They weren’t designed to play files.
Same deal with disc players, they were designed to play discs, not files.

If they’re not designed to play files, gapless playback is not there either.

Find software that will play gapless. There’s plenty around.

 

[barfle]

The Oppo 203/205 does gapless, except the implementation is flawed and I get occasional clicks or very small gaps between tracks.

I'm trying to find something that will play albums as a folder of FLACs gaplessly from locally attached USB drive, but coming up short. That's what I bought my Oppo 203 for but it comes up short. Wiim Ultra builds a database and won't let you play direct from the folder structure I am told. Cambridge Audio streamers expect everything to be in a folder called Music. AudioLab streamers won't even play from local USB media. I despair, why is playing from USB media such an afterthought with these streamers?

My Oppo 105 plays gapless from a USB stick, Or close enough that I can’t tell. It’s also the only way I have of playing DSD and DSX files, uness I get through the learning curve on the new QQ NUC.

 

[Owen Smith]

What back-up application do you use? Do you encode directly to flac or pcm.wav first, then pcm.wav to flac?

I now use CUERipper like you do, encoding direct to FLACs per track. Before that I used dbpoweramp, again ripping direct to FLACs per track.

 

[Owen Smith]

Find software that will play gapless. There’s plenty around.

I don't want to use a computer for this (yeah I know all this gear is really a computer inside). I just want something embedded like a blu ray player or a streamer to play my FLACs. I thought that would be a very standard use case but I guess not.

 

[HomerJAU]

Look at the QQ Special Edition Media Players. Remote control device, can be controlled from a smart phone or tablet, gapless FLAC etc