I know the perils associated with gapless playback... You need to either have MP3's without any metadata, or the decoder must be smart enough to skip over the metadata. Furthermore, you need to have the encoder encode on frame boundaries, like with the new LAME alphas... etc etc etc...

But having done that, there are still gaps, and while they're small, they're certainly noticable on any continuous album/mix. While I realize programming truly gapless output is no simple task, I think this is the absolute most lacking feature. Even WAV files "skip" between tracks on the Empeg.

I think it's possible to make gapless playback happen, and yeah, it's probably not easy, but Empeg has some very bright programmers. I would hope that gapless output is high on the list of priorities, and hope to see it in a future release. It's by far my #1 wish.