[henkypenky]

In Kodi 17 I used a CUE sheet file (.cue) to describe Album Title, Artist, and track titles for mka files (one file per album containing either LPCM, DTS, DTSMA, or TrueHD audio streams). The album was added nicely to the library, the audio was passed through to my AVR, and album was playing gapless so all good. 

Thanks. This CUE sheet solution will work for me. I’ll give it a try.

It turned out that in Kodi 18 .cue files are only considered when mka file does not contain chapter info. This was different in Kodi 17 where both were considered whereby the cue file had precedence. Opened another issue for this incident: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/issues/16359