Denon/Heos - Qobuz - dropouts - missing metadata - gapless

[Michael Waldor]

Some months ago I've reported some problems with dropouts and metadata display if using gapless playback.

Now I've more details. First of all, if gapless is disabled, there are no dropouts, and all metadata is shown on Denon TV GUI. No need to engage Qobuz proxy. I.e. all my problems arise by my gapless request.

But of course I want to use gapless playback. If engaged I encounter dropouts always at the track boundaries! Watching network traffic, typically 6MBits are used during normal playback, it drops to near 0 at end of track and when the next track starts. Then there is a short dropout, and playback proceeds with 6MBits.

Thus the dropouts typically occur during automatic playback with gapless engaged at track boundaries.

Please check.

Thanks, Michael

[Michael Waldor]

Sadly my observation is not reproducible - there might be no dropouts despite gapless. And there are dropouts - even completely stop - somewhere in between if Qobuz proxy is disabled.

I believe all my problems are due to bugs within Denon's firmware. 

Regards, Michael