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Remember that the player has got NO CLUE that Track B is a continuation of Track A, and it's actually doing the Right Thing to dump the bit reservior and restart the decoder when it encounters a new track. If it didn't, then two disparate tracks would have a glitch at the boundary, and that's not good either. In fact, it would be worse. So I think the player is doing the Right Thing now. It's certainly doing the best it can with the material it's been given.

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Yeah, you're right, leaving the bit reservoir in place could cause some sonic issues with normal tracks. But I figured that if the track isn't gapless to begin with, that it would be even more inaudible with "gapped" tracks than with "gapless" ones. I could be wrong about that though.

It might be nice to have a configurable setting to preserve the bit reservoir or not. This setting could be made global, or it could be set for each playlist.

Still, Terminator says he's looking into the '--nogap' setting on LAME, which should be a real help.


Michael Grant
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