Yeah, I figured you meant Decoder, I wasn't going to pick nits.

You do make a good point, though, that smart software could solve the problem. I can envision that someone might be able to write an MP3 player which would decode two MP3 files and look closely at the audio data at the end of the first one and the beginning of the second one. Even if the files were encoded with silent gaps between them (silence embedded in the first and last frames), the -DECODED- raw wave data would show it pretty clearly and the playback program could simply skip over that tiny bit of raw silence and play the resulting audio back to back. No "de-gapping encoders" necessary.

So why doesn't such a piece of player software exist? I haven't seen it.