topic Re: spotify gapless playback in Sky Q

spotify gapless playback

Martin770 — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 11:14:54 GMT

Why can I not hear spotify tracks with gapless playback when fed from my iphone to sky q? for example, where an album has continuous playing like Floyd or Jarre for example, there is a gap between each 'track' when playing.

Re: spotify gapless playback

oldfella — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 11:21:34 GMT

@Martin770 wrote:

Why can I not hear spotify tracks with gapless playback when fed from my iphone to sky q? for example, where an album has continuous playing like Floyd or Jarre for example, there is a gap between each 'track' when playing.

Hi @Martin770

If the content is coming from your iPhone then perhaps you should be asking Apple.

Re: spotify gapless playback

Martin770 — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 11:27:58 GMT

I have no problem playing gapless through to other devices. I cannot help feel this is a sky q problem fed via broadband perhaps?

Re: spotify gapless playback

xenon81 — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 11:29:02 GMT

Many Spotify features including gapless playback, crossfade and volume normalisation aren't supported on the TV version of the app.

Re: spotify gapless playback

Martin770 — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 11:30:43 GMT

Thanks. Do you know if this is being addressed by either Sky or Spotify?

Re: spotify gapless playback

SlenderRobert — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 11:33:00 GMT

@Martin770 wrote:
Why can I not hear spotify tracks with gapless playback when fed from my iphone to sky q? for example, where an album has continuous playing like Floyd or Jarre for example, there is a gap between each 'track' when playing.

This is unfortunately common with many streaming services on all platforms and devices.

Album streams are not the same as a CD or vinyl - the track skipping identifiers are interpreted differently by different providers/apps/devices. Some will always add a brief second of silence as it registers the track change.

The Spotify app on iOS does have a gapless playback option - do you have this turned on? It's under the playback settings menu. I no longer have a Q box and I never used the Spotify app on it so I don't know if it is capable of outputting gapless playback when fed from another device.

Re: spotify gapless playback

xenon81 — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 11:34:16 GMT

@Martin770 wrote:
Thanks. Do you know if this is being addressed by either Sky or Spotify?

Not sure but it appears to be a limitation of the Spotify TV app in general rather than a Sky specific issue.

Re: spotify gapless playback

Martin770 — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 11:37:56 GMT

Thanks. Yes it is turned on.