This was a most welcome development, Rob, thanks a lot! Since I encode everything using Lame VBR, this fix took care of a nuisance. MAD is as musical and stable as it ever was - I saw no bugs in this pre1 build. I also noticed the DLL is some 40 KB shorter too - I wonder what more improvements were made to the code :) I take the opportunity to focus on one of my most disturbing problems regarding mp3 playing, which is gapless playing across mp3 tracks. I have tried all the solutions available for Winamp and I was not satisfied at all with any of these. Has anybody come across an optimal solution specifically for use with MAD ? I suspect that existing gapless plugins are written for the default winamp decoder so they'd in principle fail to operate properly with MAD. If this is the case can we hope in the future for some solution for gapless playing through MAD? Thank you for all your efforts and have a happy and musical Easter :)