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MP3's are created using frames and each frame is 26ms long. So unless a track is exactly a multiple of 26ms long there will be a gap.

And that's not the worst of it. Even if the start and end points of your track *would* fall exactly on frame boundaries, the encoders (for the most part) don't begin the audio data at the very beginning of the frame. There seems to be some random amount of encoder spool-up time in the first couple of audio frames, causing a bit of silence to play back after the 00:00.00 mark of a track.

The exception to this was later versions of LAME, when using special encoding parameters, as was mentioned elsewhere in this thread.
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Tony Fabris