I have a question about gaps... My preferred method of ripping is to rip to multiple wav's and create a cue sheet for multiple wav files with gaps (noncompliant). However, I sometimes have been ripping to a single image, using "Copy Image & Create CUE Sheet". Now, I wanted to make sure that I was splitting my images in a way that gave me the same files as ripping to multiple wav's in the first place would have given me. As far as I know, my EAC is configured correctly, and I use secure extraction. Here's what I did today with two different CD's:
1. Rip to multiple wavs using "Copy selected tracks".
2. Rip to single wav using "Copy Image & Create CUE Sheet".
3. Split my single wav using "Split WAV By CUE Sheet / With Gaps".
4. Split my single wav using "Split WAV By CUE Sheet / With Gaps Corrected".
5. Compare each single track version with both others using EAC's "Compare WAVs" function.
I'll refer to the tracks in step 1 as the originals.
For the first 10 track album, every wav created in step 3 matched those in step 1. All tracks from step 4 matched the others, except for tracks 5 and 6. For track 5, the original was reported as 0:00:00:666 longer. Track 6 had different samples in position 0:00:00:000 - 0:02:13.199 for both the step 4 version and the original, and the step 4 version being 0:00:00:666 longer that the original.
For the second 16 track album, every track matched except the first track from both step 3 and step 4. The step 3 version had different samples 0:00:00.000 - 0:00:00.122. The step 4 version had different samples 0:00:00.000 - 0:05:02.226 and the step 4 version being 0:00:00.440 longer than the original.
Can anyone explaint to me why these differences occur?
Thanks!