BladeEnc 0.94.2 i believe is the version number - not very new. and it doesn't try - it succeeds. the click i mentioned is pretty rare. i already have about 12 cds encoded this way, and i get the click on maybe 3 tracks out of the lot. worked fine so far in v1.03 on the empeg and using the Gapless Output plugin for Winamp. i'll stick with it until someone shows me something better.