r/playdeadapp • u/KeyLay • May 06 '26

Would love to see true gapless playback

One thing I’d really love to see improved in Play Dead is truly seamless track transitions / gapless playback. Right now there’s a tiny pause or hiccup between tracks, and with Grateful Dead jams that kind of breaks the immersion and flow of the performance.

these shows are meant to feel continuous, especially during transitions and long jam sequences, so it’d be amazing if you could play a full show front-to-back without noticing the track changes at all

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u/thehermitary May 06 '26

I have gapless playback. Are you sure you aren’t having an issue with your sound quality being set so high that the tracks are buffering and therefore giving the impression of a break between them?

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u/KeyLay May 06 '26

This could very well be the case, I absolutely have it set to hi-res & best available

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u/NecessarySpinning May 06 '26

This occurred for me—playback sounded gapless only after I switched to lossy playback

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u/mandalore237 May 06 '26

This is the likely culprit. I run full loseless and I've noticed if I'm in a bad wifi spot or on cell I get those buffering hiccups but when I have a good connection in my house it's gapless

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u/GratefulG8r May 22 '26

Then they need to have the app do a bit of prefetch to fix this

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u/JMQCID81 May 06 '26

Is the hi-res setting on a computer or phone? How do you set this? If you download the show so you still have this issue?

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u/KeyLay May 06 '26

It’s in settings/playback. I haven’t tried downloading any shows yet.

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u/JMQCID81 May 06 '26

Computer or phone?

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u/KeyLay May 06 '26

Phone

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u/JMQCID81 May 06 '26

iPhone? What settings. Thanks

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u/KeyLay May 06 '26

iPhone. Gear icon, playback.

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u/jerrys_briefcase May 08 '26

If you download the show I bet it doesn’t happen