Riiiiiiight. So your bit-reservoir trick doesn't do any additional help in that case, either, then.

So if I understand this right, then...

- The only time the don't-flush-the-bit-reservoir trick is useful is if I encode an album as a single huge MP3 file and then split it up into individual MP3s at frame boundaries. In that situation, it will play back perfectly, provided I don't shuffle it.

- In almost all other cases, the don't-flush-the-bit-reservior trick is actually damaging and could cause an audible problem at track boundaries.

Am I understanding it right?