This is all very helpful news, and really reminds me how mad I am at EAC author Andre Wiethoff who curtly ignored my feature request to rip the whole album before decoding so that the -nogap option can be used on an entire album rather than Rip 1, Encode 1, Rip 2, Encode 2, etc. He said something along the lines of "I haven't heard that using -nogap is any better than manually editing out gaps or using gap detection in EAC" blah blah blah.. EAC is great, but this feature is really going to be necessary some day when I want to re-rip all my albums to remove gaps. I might have to do it all manually now.