...not on Media Center, yet.
First and most importantly, I am still using version 9.0.180 of MC. I don't like any version after that so that is where i am forever stuck. If the gapless .mp3 problem has been solved in a later version then I apologize for this post.
I am using the .1 second transition on my mp3 tracks as is the closest thing to gapless I can find. However, I recently stumbled across this winamp plugin:
http://babel.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=ja_en&trurl=http%3a%2f%2fwww3.cypress.ne.jp%2fotachan%2fin_mpg123.html(enjoy the babelfish translation!)
I have occasionally used the winamp mp3 decoder in MC because I liked the fact that I could buffer an entire song to memory. IMHO, as long as there is memory available I think it makes more sense to do this than reading from the HD every few seconds. The problem I had with this is that I couldn't import files into MC, the winamp plugin wouldn't pass the ID3 tags to MC properly.
Anyway, I gave this new plugin mentioned above a try in winamp and found that it does produce terrific gapless playback of mp3s. Unfortunately, unlike the default winamp decoder, it wont work in MC. But remember I am still using 9.0.180, perhaps it WILL work for newer versions. Even if it did work for playback, I doubt it would pass the tags into the DB correctly.
Regardless, I see this as a major landmark in mp3 playback. I have tried it with many of my LAME aps encoded mp3 files of live/continuous CDs and much to my enjoyment they now play just like the original.
Now that is has been shown to be possible, is there any chance of an MC plugin that can do this?
Cheers!