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Question About Lame Encoded MP3 Gapless Playback In iTunes

Hi all,
Can someone help me out with a problem I'm having with lame encoded MP3's in iTunes and on the stock iOS music player on my iPhone.
I've noticed that albums that have been ripped using lame encoder to MP3 are not playing back gaplessly in iTunes and on my iPhone properly. They playback ok, but when it comes to the end of the playing track where it's switching to the next track, the gapless playback is jumping ever so slightly to the next track instead of being a smooth gapless transition. It's like it jumps to the next track instead of just flowing like it's supposed to.
This is happening in the latest version of iTunes and with iOS 8.3 on my iPhone 6.

I'm currently using Neutron Music Player instead of the stock iOS music player on my iPhone and with Neutron all MP3's encoded using lame playback fine, totally smooth like they're supposed to.
Here's the link to Neutron if anyone hasn't heard of it before... http://neutronmp.com/

I just want to find out what could be causing the choppy / jumpy gapless playback in iTunes and iOS. Could it be that Apple doesn't read the lame gapless tags, iTunes and iOS are just programmed to read iTunes gapless tags in MP3's that have been encoded using iTunes and that's it?

Question About Lame Encoded MP3 Gapless Playback In iTunes

Reply #1 –
IIRC, iTunes/iOS follows its own standard for gapless metadata and does not check for LAME's implementation at all.

Question About Lame Encoded MP3 Gapless Playback In iTunes

Reply #2 –
I never had any problems playing LAME (-V0) encoded gapless mp3s in iTunes or on the iPod Classic. When adding the files to iTunes, it performs its own gapless scan, stores the info in the iTunes database and then uses it during playback.