A fan asked. I decided to answer here, for all:
Thank you for the suggestion, and I’ve put a lot of thought into this.
If you listen to the any of my albums on the BandCamp player, either on my site or on BandCamp (image above), it will play songs, telling you want song is what, and there will be a quick gap between songs, so you’ll know. Pic attached. Will actually be slightly higher quality (250 kbps variable, 250 on a good internet connection) than the 224kbps (constant bit rate) that I’m encoding all MP3s at now.
Yes, it’s possible to add section points on a single long album-length MP3 (this new album is 2 hours 20 minutes!), but not all players will honor it. It’s extra work I don’t feel like doing, but I have a better reason not to do it:
I make the whole-album single-MP3s specifically to play “as a piece.”…based on how I listened to the album “Dark Side of the Moon” as a teen.
On that, and other “concept albums” from that era, you can’t always tell where one song ends and another starts.
In fact, the vinyl and CD delineations sometimes happen in the middle of sections that could be considered part of either song.