Has anyone else come across CDs that they're surprised to find are gapless? I was just in the process of ripping a stack of CDs and found that Steely Dan's Pretzel Logic has no gaps. All songs fade out, and there's no conceivable reason for the album to be gapless. Seems odd.

I'm using EAC 0.95 pb5 on Windows XP Pro with a Plextor PX-712A drive, gap detection method A/Secure.

Yes, I've found it's somewhat common with analog transfers, where silence is not digital silence, but a low volume hiss, a real gap kills the flow, because you stop hearing the hiss.

I've found that most of the albums that I've ripped lately are gapless, whereas only a few actually run together. I think it's because gaps aren't really needed at all. As far as I know, a 2 second gap is the same as putting 2 seconds of silence on the previous track.

You say that it seems odd that there are no gaps, but what is the point of gaps anyway? If you're fading out at the end of a song, why add additional silence?

I agree with Omion for the most part. It's not a lack of gap indices that surprizes me, it's how nonsensicaly they are placed so much of the time. It makes me wonder if the majority of drives are actually detecting them accurately, where they were engineered/intended.