I hope you’re still around!

I often play Apple Music on my car, where the phone (17 pro, 26.5.1) is connected through Bluetooth. However, every time one song is playing and another one gets added to the playlist, the Bluetooth playback is interrupted for a tiny bit (around half a second?), and continues afterwards. The same happens when the songs are already added in a playlist, and the automix feature starts mixing the next song, or starts analyzing the next song (?) (around halfway through each song). It’s pretty annoying because it interrupts the playing song, while an extra second in between songs would be much less of an issue.

Have a look at DietPi. That is a single-board-computer optimized Linux distribution that, in contradiction to what the name might suggest, runs on (almost) all of the SBC’s out there. It has stripped away all the things you don’t need and only installs and loads what is needed to run the software you choose, resulting in a very lightweight but powerful operating system for these kinds of devices. It has its own software catalog with a broad selection of optimized software, but you can of course install anything you want. Ive been running this on a Raxda Rock4 without any problems, and would definitely suggest this even on a Raspberry over the regular Pi image.