Extracting a track might take up to a few seconds. If your media player doesn't prefetch the next track early enough, then gapless playback might not work. By extracting the next track already towards the end of the previous track, it would already wait for being streamed on the cash and reduce the lead time for reading the next track to the time it takes frackfs to open the file from cache.
andresch
commented
3 years ago
Extracting a track might take up to a few seconds. If your media player doesn't prefetch the next track early enough, then gapless playback might not work. By extracting the next track already towards the end of the previous track, it would already wait for being streamed on the cash and reduce the lead time for reading the next track to the time it takes frackfs to open the file from cache.