Achieving gapless play regardless of renderer, and other requirements..

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(12-12-2013 14:07)winxi Wrote:  Hi, many thanks for sharing this, it sounds very interesting. As I've not much experience with foobar2000 I've got a few questions:
Does this mean that foobar2000 creates the gapless stream which is then played by your HiFi renderer? Which HiFi renderer do you use? Did you achieve multi-room playback with this setup?

Yes, foobar2000 creates the gapless stream. I currently have 2 HiFi renderers, a Musical Fidelity M1 CLiC, and a Marantz CR603, in separate rooms. I can play them at the same time.

If there is a headless linux-based renderer that can create just an lpcm or wav playback capture stream from flacs, I'd use it in preference to foobar2000, which does a lot more than I need for this purpose. I haven't found one yet. I wonder if that could be a next project for Simon Nash?