you can on the steam deck but I’m not sure about normal desktops. proton does support it tho so probably?

Pretty sure you are talking about audio fading, gapless is different. Gapless playback just means audio playback won’t stop when a new song plays. Without it, the audio sounds like it briefly pauses between tracks.

vlc sucks for music because it doesn’t have gapless playback, and not everyone wants to use a streaming service.

Ive been trying out nouveau with mesa 24.1, wayland seems better than last time I tried it out on proprietary nvidia drivers. Only issue I’ve notice is that mouse movement feels weird and performance drops when you move the mouse.

I haven’t noticed any performance issues (2070 Super/Ryzen 3600). I dont have that many plugins though.

I have, I didn’t like it that much but its better than deadbeef.

I did try running foobar under wine but it just sucked, I have also tried deadbeef but its really lacking features and the GUI sucks. I ended up using musicbee through wine, it was a hassle to setup but now it just works for me and I like it better than foobar.