My Panasonic 9000 says it does gapless playback, but also notes that some differences in the files that are supposed to be continuous may cause issues. I have never tried the gapless playback but now have a reason to :-) Using a dedicated device other than your regular computer to play files is always better. I find all kinds of artifacts that show up audibly when my computers are feeding the content to my DACs. Mostly gaps where something happens in the computer that must have a much higher priority that it affects the file output. Not probably a big deal for kids listening to MP3 files on a cheap powered speaker, but a deal-breaker for using computers with a high end system and critical listening.
Gapless playback of FLAC files.
I use a Blu-ray player to send my FLAC files to my dac. The audio sounds very good but I run into an issue when two FLAC files are supposed to be continuous, with no break. My Blu-ray player (Sony UBP-X700) adds a second of silence, even when the FLAC files have no break at the end. This doesn’t happen when I play the files on Foobar2000, but I prefer to have a freestanding transport for sending files to my dac, instead of using a computer.
I heard that Panasonic makes a Blu-ray player that can do gapless playback, but I like the RCA Coax SPDIF jack on my Sony player and the Panasonic doesn’t have that. I wonder why it’s so hard to get gapless playback.
Any ideas? (All I want is to send gapless FLAC to my dac.)