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While we are talking: I remember that once I did have a problem with gapless playback. That was with a Majik DS. The FLAC files of the album happened to have a very large in-line image. After resizing the image and adding it back with "metaflac" it played without gap. Perhaps worth a try before spending money on an album?

I use a Synology DS209+II NAS with built-in media server (DSM 4.2). Control point is Kinsky 4.3.14 on iPad and Macbook Pro. The DSM is in Playlist mode. I guess that since the DSM is in Playlist mode, the control point is probably not involved during the gapless playback. The album can be purchased here: Linn Records - Stravinsky Apollon musagète & Pulcinella Suite Continuous tracks would e.g. be Scherzino, Allegro, Andantino of the suite.

I have an Akurate DSM and never experienced a problem with gapless replay, neither with FLAC nor ALAC nor with any resolution from 16/44 up to 24/192. Just had a listen to Linn's recording of Stravinsky's Pulcinella suite in 24/192 (ALAC), and it played gapless as it should.

Exactly, until a few months ago HD Tracks was fast, then it suddenly became slow. Perhaps they changed the file hosting provider. Now it is some Amazon cloud service. Try disabling TCP window scaling. This should help.

You might want to try to disable TCP window scaling. For me, when downloading from HD Tracks, it boosts the download rate about a factor of 10 or so. At least it saturates my 6 mbps DSL line. On a Mac TCP window scaling is enabled per default. You have to open a Terminal and type mac:~ user$ sudo sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.rfc1323=0 Password: and enter your password after the password prompt in order to disable it until the next reboot. Because I had several defective downloads form HD Tracks too I'd like to add to the points above: - Users can't rate albums on the web site - There is no hdtracks forum Both features would help identifing defective albums much faster.