Gapless Music Playback Issue

I also made another forum post about how the "add to up next" functionality is broken. As an example I posted a YouTube video. I tried this on my girlfriends iPhone 7 running 13.2 as well and it happens there too. Plus when you re-arrange your "Up Next" the animation is absolutely terrible causing it to becoming an impossible task. https://youtu.be/6jsKS393sHI

How about when you delete something off the iPod. Before this update, it would still be there when I looked at the music on my iPod while on iTunes, so I’d have to also delete it there. Has this been fixed?

From a Windows 10 user perspective with latest iTunes 12.10.2.3 [until now] and dealing only with ripped material; the problem definitely occurs both with .aac and lossless .alac files when you start playing a track approx. less than its last 8-10 seconds before the (supposedly gapless) flowing the next one; you notice a brief silence between tracks which shouldn't be there, as a spectral analysis and playing of the same files with e.g. Foobar2000 confirmed.

But, if you let iTunes play at least the last 10 seconds of the track the gapless transition is OK, and the more so when playing tracks seamlessly from start to finish. So it definitely seems to be a data buffering matter (?) Strangely, mp3 files (even very old ones) aren't affected by this bug. Long story short, will check next iTunes updates to see if the matter is addressed but from this side isn't that annoying when 'normally' playing a gapless album.

im having this issue on iMac when burning cd's its adding 2 seconds gap which is a pain when ive mixed the cd. Playing the mp3 files on my iPhone or plackback with iTunes its fine, just not on burning cd.

A friend of mine rips CD's of EDM for her dance workshops (stepping), and she called out for help on this issue. She was running iPadOS 13.1.3 on her iPad having the issue. After reading the input from this topic here I advised her to update to iPadOS 13.2.3, and she's just reported the issues are over! The music plays without gaps again. Hope this solves it for other users as well.

13.2.3 didn’t solve the issue. Neither 13.2.2 by the way. Personally since the introduction of iOS 13 every track ripped in alac hasn’t played gapless in iOS iPadOS and Apple TV. No problem with Catalina

no problems with mp3 or mp4 files

Positive, I just got a screenshot saying it’s an iPad 6th gen running software version 13.2.3. She ripped the cd’s as MP3 files though so it might still be a persisting issue for ALAC as suggested in previous posts.

I tried the free version of VOX which, with one exception that I may know the cause of, seems to work perfectly so far as a workaround. So at least it's not necessarily the IOS, just bad or compromised Music app coding on top of it. Maybe it's to try and push people to swap out their ripped CDs fo the Apple Music equivalents and so become more dependent on it? Will try to write up a feedback template later today, once I have got a few things out of the way. All my ripped music is ALAC, with the bulk of it manually synced (and therefor converted on the fly by iTunes to AAC during thr transfer to the iPhone. LOnly the most recent stuff is Ripped to ALAC on my Mac and then getting to the iPhone via iCloud. So I suspect a lot of those tracks are matched ones, rather than from the source files.

I submitted this via the Feedback Assistant this morning. So here's hoping it will be fixed on the next update. Will report back if and when I hear anything.

I did update to 12.1.2 and it's still the same issue. I'm also not going to go through and convert my whole library to m4a to solve the issue. It's been MP3 since my first iPod in 2005.