Originally Posted By: wfaulk
Originally Posted By: peter
other formats (Vorbis, FLAC, WMA) can encode arbitrary-length audio

That's great for the eight people who want to use those formats, own no players that can't support them, and have the proficiency to rip their CDs using them.

But most players support at least one of those, and very few do so gaplessly; the point I was trying to make was that such devices don't fail at gapless because of the infelicities of the MP3 format: they don't get that far, they've already fallen at an earlier hurdle. (In case anyone relevant is reading, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys have enough buffer downstream of your decoders, that you can switch track and have the first samples of the next track coming out of the decoder before your DAC has underflowed. Which is why the flash-players couldn't do it: not enough resources.)

Peter