I totally agree with you Rich.
This has been bugging me since it was called media jukebox. Every time I try a new version, I end up thinking 'What?!?? I can't beleive these guys have still not fixed this.'
I reckon that the crossfade is one of the best features of MC, but it pisses me off so much when every track on an album starts too soon, that it usually ends up being turned off.
If I don't see the 'Use gapless crossfade for consecutive album tracks' option soon, I'm going to start searching for another player.
Perhaps it would not be so annoying if I could imagine it to be a difficult feature to implement, but really, how hard could it be? I mean, there is already an alternate setting which activates when you press a key or something. By the time someone finishes reading this, they could probably already have coded 'Use alternate crossfade settings for consecutive album tracks'. It's not rocket science is it? (That's what my project manager always used to say when he had no idea anyway, but when you stop and think about it, he's right.)
nonmomo