a) Encode the entire album as one long MP3, then
b) Split the big MP3 cleanly at exact frames that are close (within .026 second) of where the CD thinks the track boundaries should fall.

Sorry to resurrect this thread, but I just tried this. I encoded Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble's "Live at Carnegie Hall" as a single MP3 file, and then I used musiCutter to split the file into its parts.

When the empeg plays it back, it inserts small but audible gaps between the tracks. Of course, I don't think the empeg is necessarily trying to go gapless here. If it's not, then it sure seems like it could if it just preserved the MPEG decoder state between files.

Oh well, for now it sounds as good as I'm gonna get I guess.




Michael Grant
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