Hey, is there a way for me to join the mp3 tracks in a mix cd together to create a single gapless track but create an m3u file that points to the individual different tracks?

I've been searching around for different joining programs and it seems that while they will allow me to join the files together they wont create an m3u playlist of the individual tracks.

can anyone recommend an approach and programs to use?

Thanks
Ell- ^_~

It depends.
If you want to listen to your MP3 gaplessly on your computer, then foobar2000 should do the trick, as long as your MP3 files where made using a recent version of LAME. If not, you can still fix them, but it takes some work. Read here for more info.
If you want to make a CD from MP3 that will play gaplessly, then foobar2000 should do the trick. Same deal as above, but now use the Diskwriter component to produce perfect-length decodec wav files that you can burn using your software of choice.
If you want to listen to your MP3 on a hardware device such as iPod or DVD players, then you are pretty much screwed. AFAIK, there is no way to achieve gapless playback on hardware devices.

so, short of burning the collection to gapless CD with foobar2000 and then reripping it to a single file with a cue (something I don't yet know how to do) there is no way to 'simply' join all the files together with silence gaps removed?

cause if I can do this I can download a cue from http://www.regeert.nl/cuesheet/ and should be able to sort of edit this to an m3u.... mebbe



Ell-