I still hear a little bit of a gap, but I don't notice unless I am listening for it. Nogap impoves it either inperceptibly or a tiny bit. Ill try stripping out the id3 tags next and see if that gives me any improvement. I know some decoders have problems with id3v2 since everyone's implementation of it seems to be different. After that, Ill try taking out the vbr header. The new decoder definitely does a better job with files than the xaudio one did.

Sean