It was the Gapless playback.

Whenever I rip a continuous-track album, I always trim the files with GapKiller so that they sound right in WinAmp with the gapless output plug-in. I've gone to a lot of trouble with my collection to ensure this.

The xaudio engine in 1.0x always had a tiny pause between two songs. Just enough so that you could hear it if you were listening closely. So all the work I did with GapKiller was never realized on the car player.

I don't know if it was due to the work of the empeg guys, or if this is built into the new ARM engine, but now there is no pause of any kind between two tracks with 2.0.

So suddenly all of my collection plays gapless now. Well, at least as well as it can considering the source material and the trimming I had to do to the files. It sounds exactly like the gapless output plugin in WinAmp: 90 percent of my hand-trimmed track transitions are perfectly seamless. The remainder are so close that you don't notice it unless you're trying really hard.

I can listen to Dark Side of the Moon again.

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Tony Fabris