No gapless playback in Tidal streams about strawberry

[jonaski]

I'm aware of this. The gap depends on how long it takes load the stream url and the buffering of the stream. I actually have a really poor internet connection (through radio) at home so I probably have more gap than you.
There is a mechanism through the url handler and through gstreamer that is supposed to preload, but some of that code from Clementine (in player.cpp) don't make sense to me, almost as if it's not finished. I would like to rewrite it but it's not been a priority, at least not for now.
I'm not sure if it's possible to make it 100% gap free anyway.

[mroova]

Thank You for the info :)

[jonaski]

It works with this fix: a6766f3
It needs alot of testing before a new release.
So it would be nice if as many can test it and report back here, it should be tested with shuffle and repeat options too.

[mroova]

I still can't get gapless playback in Tidal streams; neither with ALSA nor Pulse Audio:
Strawberry 0.6.3, Ubuntu 18.04.3

[jonaski]

Its not working anymore for me either.
I'm not sure I will be able to fix it before my subscription expire.

[jonaski]

When testing commit a6766f3 it works, so there is something I did after then that broke it.

[jonaski]

I found the problem, this commit broke it: 9956908#diff-627fee9c47679582489a9e32c39acf2e
The bug now is that it requests the stream url again even when it was previously preloaded, so it waits for the url handler a second time.

[jonaski]

I increased the preload gap a bit too, it's perfect now

[mroova]

I've just installed 0.6.4 - now it works perfectly, thank you so much :)