Hi all and happy new holidays.

I use EAC and lame to rip my cd collection to MP3 but I have a number of DJ mix CDs that I would like to rip also but every time I do so I get the gap between tracks. Is there a way to remove the gap? I see in EAC a column saying 'Gap' and when I put a CD in it always says unknown.

Any suggestions?

Thanks a lot

The gap problem you speak of is a problem with audio encoding, not the ripping.

What you want is gapless playback. Information and solutions are in this wiki article :
http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Gapless

Some more info about gapless playback using LAME & foobar2000 (and fixing files that don't play back gaplessly) :
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....showtopic=11669

The gap (a.k.a. pregap) column you see in EAC is regarding something different.

edit (clarification)

Thanks for that

I just noticed (noob here) that I can create an image and cue in EAC and it detects gaps but the problem for me is that the image is rendered as a WAV, how would I be able to render as another compression format and still use a CUE sheet in EAC?

Thanks for the help

You can encode the WAV to MP3. foobar2000 can play it AFAIK. But make sure you change the CUE file to point to the MP3 and not the WAV.

Again, the "gap" (pregap) handling of EAC has nothing really to do with gapless playback. I edited my previous post (while you were replying, no doubt) to clarify that it's lossy encoding (not ripping) that adds gaps (of the type we're discussing, caused by encoding) to files.

But you have brought up a subject that does pertain to gapless playback. Single file (image) rips are the most foolproof, universal way to eliminate gaps between tracks.

If you want EAC to rip an image and do the compression for you, go to
Action > Copy Image & Create CUE Sheet > Compressed...

Guide to set up EAC and LAME : http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=EAC_and_Lame

Compression guides for other formats are linked in this article : http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=EAC

If you are only going to be listening to the tracks on your computer, then you should not bother with images and cue sheets, IMHO.
Just use foobar2000 and LAME.
Your tracks will be perfectly gapless, everytime.

Your current rips will be gapless if you use a gapless decoder. Foobar has one. Winamp can be upgraded to have one via plugin. If you want a portable that has gapless LAME, you'd need one of the rockbox modded players, AFAIk they're the only ones with gapless decoders.

The Rio Karma has gapless playback via LAME tags (ie: real gapless).

You can still find them in eBay and some retailers