As I am sure you are aware, on certain albums there are no gaps between tracks and the music may be continuous without interruption. I think it needs to play as the artist intended it to play.
There are many albums without interruptions between the individual tracks, especially in the areas of classical music (operas!) or live concerts. These should sound like a single track when played. If this doesn't work, it completely destroys the enjoyment of the music.
No.
For example, how would you feel if the WiiM app generated a 1 second gap in operation? Wouldn't you be annoyed if you had to wait an extra second every time you tapped the screen?
It just depends a lot on the type of music you prefer to listen to. Depending on the genre, you may never encounter gapless playing.
There really should be no interruptions when playing back the recording. The individual tracks are basically just a convenience function of the record label so that individual songs can still be consciously selected. That's why gapless playback is so tricky. The streamer must know that this album is to be played gaplessly, even though it consists of many individual tracks.
You have clearly never played Abbey Road or most Pink Floyd albums then
There's no way to know if an album is gapless - assuming we're talking about a lossless source here. A streamer will play everything gaplessly, maybe even across albums.
Let‘s say something that sounds like a helicopter
Any live album then.
Ha, this post reminded me of listening to progressive rock on my car's 8Track… It inevitably switched tracks in the middle of a long (winded) track… how abrupt that would be.
