Is gapless playback a subtle and hard-to-determine property of an album, that's secretly being calculated somewhere and communicated to the thin-clients? Or is it perhaps that this device just does what's obviously right -- what every CD player in the world does -- and that today's ready availability of fail has blinded people to that?
I'd like to point out that the empeg doesn't do gapless properly. (Maybe it does with the 3.alpha versions?)
But this is all based on a failing of the mp3 format, with its fixed-time-length frames and no way to tell a decoder to ignore certain portions. This has been resolved by retrofitting, but those are ad-hoc standards, at best.
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