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Is anyone else having issues with gapless playback on iOS 16.2 (I have an iPhone 14 Pro Max, if that's relevant). Every couple of songs in a gapless album, I'll get a moment of silence between tracks that's really annoying when the songs are supposed to flow smoothly into each other.
The issue was in 15.4 and also a few years back, so it's annoying that it keeps coming back.
iPhone 14 Pro Max
As the original poster mentioned, this is getting so old. This year the issue popped up in April then it was fixed with an update. Now in December the issue has popped up again. I am getting extremely frustrated with Apple and their developers. Pretty poor development and release cycles where a bug keeps getting introduced again. Poor QA and poor development procedures. Seems like developers cannot merge code correctly if they keep introducing a bug that was supposedly fixed. I'm talking from experience since I'm a senior software engineer with decades of experience. Usually when bugs keep coming back its because the developer had a merge conflict and was lazy and just fixed it with taking their version, while reverting code that was correct. Can Apple start looking at their software release process and stop bringing back old bugs?
16.6 seems to be broken.. again. Is this some sort of nerds vs musicians thing? Is this a sign that they don’t let their programmers out of the basement enough to experience some culture? Are they running a programmer sweatshop under that donut?
This situation is absolutely maddening. I’m trying out Apple Music, and am frequently getting gaps between tracks, where there should be none; both iPhone and iPad. But then if I go back to the same track change, it plays through with no problem. The issue exists regardless of whether I’m using Apple Music or Apple Music Classical. Things like Wagner operas, where the music is continuous, are pretty much ruined. I wonder if other streaming services, such as idagio or Presto Music would have the same issues on iOS. It would be very nice if this were resolved once and for all when iOS 17 comes out.
It’s sad these guy at Apple can’t (or won’t) fix this problem quickly. Apple has turned to 💩. Foobar2000 is the way to go. I will never use iTunes again. I’m certain they don’t care because it’s obvious with the new update.
It’s very disappointing for each update to all ipad user specting to receive this fix for this issue and no answer made from apple.
I have an idea, there is on music setting one function crossfade this may the solution for everyone to all the features updates. The minimum time you can make to cross fade is 1 second, if you cut make .5 ms or even .2 ms this problem it will be fixed forever.
Please Apple if you can consider this option.
I am having the same issue with ios16.2. Gapless playback is removed so I get a 2 second pause between tracks. It’s frustrating when listening to music.
Yes, I am having the same issue. So darn annoying!!!
Same issue here. It was fine before the latest iOS update. It’s on every mix and live album I have and strangely it’s every other song.
please fix apple. It’s very annoying.
Foobar 2000 just saved my life! I work with dance classes and gapless playback is vital to keep my members dancing on the beat!
Until Apple gets its **** together, Foobar 2000 it is!
Same problem here with same phone and just like last year Apple made the same mistake in their update… pretty stupid a company like this makes the mistake 2 years in a row….
I just did what another user suggested and downloaded Foobar2000. It's working perfectly for me right now. Nice to not hear gaps in DJ Mixes.
Foobar on my iPhone didn't help me. It still has the annoying distraction between live tracks. Apple needs to get Gapless playback working. Not sure why they keep breaking it.
iOS 16.3 RC can fix the problem on my iPhone 11 Pro.
RC?
Thanks. This is good to know.
Does anyone know a timescale as to when the 16.3 will be a full public release?
iOS 16.2 Gapless Playback
