Apple Music gapless playback not working in iOS 17

I figured that out after I posted. Another thing Apple does is make these threads almost unusable. My apologies for being “off”.

BTW gaplesss playback on streaming is still not working and from Apples response doesn’t seem like they care.

That is good to hear. I have become quite tired having to explain what “gapless playback” is, each time I contact them. By the time I’m done with the conversation, I’m still not sure they really understand what it means. Let’s hope they truly do see it as an issue worth escalating and are able to fix it.

I do encounter serious Gapless issues, too. My biggest concern is with the Qobuz Music Streaming Service, running their iOS App (i.e. a third-party app) on my iPhone 14 Pro Max 512GB with some of the latest iOS16‘s, then 17.1 (I sat out on 17.0), and now 17.1.1.

My report is here:

https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/46611-official-qobuz-issues-thread/?do=findComment&comment=1260295

and what follows thereafter.

Let me ask: Could someone here educate me what it takes to make gapless replay possible and prevent those nerve-wrecking moments of silence?

I‘m looking for an "in principle explanation".

Like:

Gapless music replay is often touted by the software developers in their AppStore description of their music player.

• Does such software need special programming (like reference to certain APIs, provide its own buffering?) ?

Gapless breakage is often reported in reference to certain iOS versions.

• Does Apple have to contribute certain code in iOS to make gapless possible ?
• Thus, is the gapless capability down to Apple only, down to outside software developers only, or to both in combination ?
• Finally, when Gapless gets broken, who should we look at ?

Thanks!

The problem (at least mine) is that I use tracks ripped from a CD, all in the same format, same bitrate etc. And yet, iPhone cannot play them gapless. The gap is small (probably 0.2 sec) but still audible.

ITunes play gapless ok. And so does my old iPad classic. It is really the iPhone that has this problem lately. No tricks or hacks helped so far.

This is indeed a perfect joke. There are at least two serious consequences: It leaves us common users in some strange state of mind, and a bunch of third-party software developers is taken to the woodshed hunting for bugs in their software.

Hi all, any news on Gapless with iOS 17.2 now? Thanks. If I am not mistaken, (most of) your concerns were with Apple Music on iOS.

Remark: My issues with Gapless replay from the Qobuz iOS App do persist, which - as before - leads me to suspect it is an issue on their side. Already reported to them.

Has there been any update to this problem? I am on 17.2.1 and I still find that for me there are gaps between tracks where there should not be and this thread is the most recent I could find discussing the issue.

Plus countless Classical recordings as well as EDM... It just ruins the art (but we have learned in recent days that art is not a high priority at Apple). Please fix this ASAP.... It's a horrible experience

crossfade on music settings

I think this is an excellent idea but the minimum amount is 1 s and thats to much, if Apple cut change the option to .2ms that cut be the perfect solution for all futures updates

Please apple change this settings

Apple, please! You have to listen to all this users complain.

It can’t continue like that, its very frustrating and very disappointed knowing that this music app use to work exelent, I have an old ipad air 2 io 15.5 and comparing to 17.5.1 what a **** you have done, you ruin it at all.

someone give an advice to use the foobar2000 app and really makes me mad why you cant do what they are able to do and more than that you use to do that well. Such a huge company and you dont take care an issue for so long, let me guess you need the time to do it like it take you to do a calculator for 12 years.

My advice, make a change on the crossfade to one or two millisecond, 1 second its to much. Just like that whetter you fix it or not we will have this option

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I have the settings enabled as described, it's not working on my phone running 17.5.1.

This is really annoying.

I sent a bug report via Feedback Assistant.

This is really disappointing from Apple, such a basic feature.

Gapless playback of MP3 files is possible by writing the length of silence to the tag during encoding and cutting it off during playback.

iTunes and iOS Music have supported gapless playback of MP3 files using this method.

Ok this worked for a wee while then didn’t. Library sync is definitely the problem though

I thought I’d fixed this but, like you, I am still having problems with it 😭