Hi there

Sorry if I sound a bit naive here, but I want to be able to loop mp3 files in Flash/Swish etc, etc so that they produce continuous sound without the small gap of silence that mp3 encoding seems to produce... I am using Wavelab to encode my wav files as mp3, but I can't stop that silence from happening! Is there a way of doing this that a newbie can like me can make sense of?

The only way you could do that is encoding the mp3 in lame and playing it back in Foobar 2000.
The reason is that mp3s inherently add a small gap to the sound. The Lame encoder writes the gap information into the mp3 tags and foobar2000 takes advantage of that information.

Sorry that there aren't any good solutions for you.

You could experiment by inserting a loopable wav file and see if that plays back gapless. I guess it's possible, since I've seen/heard it more than once (example: www.2advanced.com a show off site of a flash web design company). If mp3s don't work, the next best thing would be adpcm encoded files.

Thanks for responding - looping wav files seamlessly is fine, except that they are obviously very large in comparison to mp3s, and in many cases impractical for that reason. Unfortunately Swish only gives you the option to import WAV or MP3 formats, so I guess I'm stuck on that one.

Thanks anyway