Ok, got ya. But I do know that with my configuration (gapless, etc) I have no gaps when I play albums with tracks that run together even though the tracks are in seperate files...
If it works for you, cool. But I have tried several albums that do not 'end' between selections and there is always either a pop or silence when going from track x to track y.
In other words, if I have a CD where the music does not stop but continues uninterrupted from selection 1 to selection 2 I can always hear the selection change using seperate files.
The MP3 format causes some problems in itself. MP3 stores audio data in frames, which can't store entire audio CD track without either truncating last samples or adding extra null samples, total length must be a multiply of frame size, being fixed at 1152 samples for MPEG-1 layer 3. MP3 also suffers from encoder/decoder delay causing the decoder to produce additional null samples at the beginning of decoded stream. In order to correct this problem, the MP3 file needs to store two additional numbers, the amount of samples to remove at the beginning of stream, and amount of samples to remove at the end of stream, then the decoder needs to take these numbers into account.
Maybe MC does this. But, since I have to store my music in some format, and I want the format to be lossless, why bother with seperate files when the APE/APL method works so well?