Kill your media player (part I).

When it comes to digital formats quality is all but lost.

I enjoy listening to CD quality (uncompressed) audio streams and have been known to bring a CD to work on occasion to do so. However most media players geared towards playing file streams (like MP3s) have broken implementations for CD playback. So I'll stick to encoded files for media players -- and why not FLAC? Lossless, yes, gapless, maybe. Let me restate that if several tracks from the same CD bleed into each other across the track marker, surely our 21st century computers should be able to reproduce the 'gapless' 1980's technology known as the 'compact disc' (even if they're in separate, adjacent files). Tracks should play back with no interruption AS GOD INTENDED IT.