Does the winamp plugin automatically remove this? I can't hear it!

I don't know which plug-in you're using. In theory, you could write a plug-in that removes gaps even if there's a lot of silence encoded into the files, but the one I'm using doesn't do that.


Yes, I hear just the slight hint of a gap when playing through the empeg (barely noticible, and only because I'm listening for it..)

Keep in mind that my definintion of a "gap" is incredibly strict. It's probably the nature of the music I listen to- the transitions between songs on Pink Floyd albums usually happen during smooth parts of the songs with long sustained notes. The gap, in that instance, sounds like a skipping vinyl LP: there's a distinct "pop" between the first and second song.

Now, if you're listening to highly rhythmic music (like techno), and the gap falls between beats, then you're not going to hear it, even if it's there.


This led me to believe that audiocatalyst was doing gap-less by default, but now others are saying that it does place a gap...

Not in my tests. AC does the same thing that all other encoders do. It inserts a random amount of silence at the beginning of the first frame, then pads the last frame with silence depending on where the last sample falls.

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Tony Fabris