Winamp will do gapless just fine (and I'm not talking about crossfading)
- it just needs a little config, as will foobar and most other decent
software players (e.g. JRiver). Note I didn't mention iTunes ;)

> IIRC, it achieved this without any additional tags; BladeEnc would
> prepend the track after the break with samples from the track before.
> This often made clean track-breaks difficult :}
LAME had (or still has, not sure) a similar option. The problem with it
is that you have to encode the whole album at one time, so it knows
which order the tracks should go in and can work out the splits. With
some rippers (e.g. EAC) this isn't possible. Of course you can rip to
wav and then do the compression as a second step, but that's not ideal
for most people. The second problem, as you mention, is that the breaks
end up in the wrong place. Not usually a problem for DJ mixes as the
break point is pretty arbitrary anyway, but more significant for other
genres.

> 
> 2. Is there any good reason not to make it accessable at (at least) the
> CLI interface?
> 
Why would you want to change it?


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radish
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