#POWERAMP CHROMECAST HOW TO#
#POWERAMP CHROMECAST WINDOWS#

#POWERAMP CHROMECAST HOW TO#

Well done, Xanthe, over at Naim Forums for figuring it out and for letting the people know how to do it (the post was actually from October last year)!Д¬laiming that the Google Home app's/Android's built-in cast screen/audio Google Cast streaming method to a Chromecast Audio supports gapless playback is a bit like saying Apple's AirPlay to an AirPlay device supports gapless playback.ДЄll you are doing is relying on the particular music app's internal audio player to do the actual gapless playback of the tracks in the playlist and then getting the resulting audio output (that would normally go to the Android device's internal DAC and then out to its speakers) to be streamed via Google Cast out to the Chromecast Audio.

#POWERAMP CHROMECAST WINDOWS#

I don't seem to be able to achieve gapless playback from my Macbook Air using the casting option built into Chrome, and I haven't tried to achieve it on a Windows machine either, so I can't say for sure whether gapless playback is or isn't doable on those platforms.ДЇwiw, I've read lots and lots of pages on the web over the years hoping to find a solution to get gapless playback on my CCA but the post I read yesterday morning is the first and only one I've ever come across stating that CCA does support gapless playback (without having to utilise third-party workarounds like HiFi Cast) and that this is the very simple way to do it

I should add, I ran into problems when I tried using an old Android device whereby the Google Home app is limited to an old, unsupported version (version 2.29.1.7) the version on my other Android device (version 2.32.1.5) works perfectly. I've tested this with PLEX and Poweramp and both options work fine. The solution is simple: initiate casting via the Google Home app first then open your media player and play music - it's that simple! For years I've been using the PLEX app to cast to my CCA and for years (or for some time at least) I've been missing out on gapless playback.

One of the key missing jigsaw pieces in my streaming setup is finally missing no more: Chromecast Audio supports gapless playback, and apparently, it has done for time!

Poweramp chromecast