But of course, I don't yet know if the new empeg decoder handles MP3 file boundaries in a fashion which will preserve this cross-file musical information.

We will see soon, but I don't think it does. To do that properly, the decoder should know when to reset its internal state at the beginning of the new tune and when not, and we have not heard of any new properties to flag a tune as 'continuous with the next one'. Am I right there, or do encoders 'return to neutral' at the end of MP3 files? If they do, then it would suffice never to reset the decoder: files made by cutting a large MP3 would play exactly as one, and in the case of independend files the 'leftover' from the first would not spoil the beginning of the next.

Of course, I am not quite sure I am making any sense here, knowing almost nothing about MP3 internals .

Guys@empeg?

Dragi "Bonzi" Raos
Zagreb, Croatia
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