So until LAME gets that stuff working well, and playback software is designed to play back those kinds of files, it's still a hit-and-miss business.

If 'lame --no-res' does what it says on the tin, the playback code shouldn't need to know. Has anyone tried using this and seeing whether a car player plays back gaplessly? (As tms13 says, it will degrade quality -- if the format allowed for it, it would be nice if lame had a --no-res-at-beginning-or-end option.)

Peter