continuous playback of gapless MP3 albums

["Dan Dugan" dandugan_1999]

>  While CD
> Audio players play smoothly between tracks of continuing material, I
> find MP3 players often place noticeable gaps between tracks. Or is
> there a way to encode mp3s not to do that?

It's the players, not the encoding. It comes from the mind-set of  
playing "songs," with the idea of the "concept album" that plays  
continuously having been forgotten somewhere in the 80s or 90s.

iTunes has finally managed to fix that, I think. Complain to the  
player software makers.

-Dan Dugan