Hi,

I was making some test with POSTGAP and PREGAP in cue-sheets
I used this cue:

What I was expecting was this:
Track 1: 01.wav + 20 seconds of silence
Track 2, Index 0: 10 seconds filled with silence
Track 2, Index 1: 02.wav

I made the test with EAC, Burrrn, burnatonce and Nero 7.

Burrrn and burnatonce ignored the POSTGAP:
Track 1: 01.wav
Track 2, Index 0: 10 seconds filled with silence
Track 2, Index 1: 02.wav

Nero burned everything as expected.

EAC had the strangest behaviour:
Track 1: 01.wav
Track 2: 20 seconds filled with silence
Track 3: 10 seconds filled with silence
Track 4: 02.wav

Leaving out PREGAP or POSTGAP out of the cue made EAC work (for the new cases) as expected.

Can someone confim the behaviour? I used EAC 0.95beta4 with CDRDAO
Why do burrrn and burnatonce ignore the POSTGAP command.

thanks

I don't even get that far. EAC (0.95 beta 3) apparently doesn't like your your cue sheet and, according to its CD Layout Editor, changes it to

without notice. Editing the the cue within EAC to correct these changes does not help: when you reopen it, it's back to the way EAC set it. Writing aborts at the lead-in stage with this Error Message dialog box:
The CD-R remains blank.

Some information about possible porblem with PREGAP is included in CDRWIN's help file:

It's definitely a EAC Bug.

After loading the CUE into EAC, it shows the following disc-layout:

But It should be:

You see, line 2 and 3 have been messed up.
The layout is wrong before CDRDAO or a recorder is involved.

Yeah, I see that EAC has a bug when PREGAP and POSTGAP are neighbouring, but my comment was actually to previous poster Never_Again, who had got "Send CUE sheet: Invalid field in paramater list" error.

I did some reading and more testing in the meanwhile, and here is what I found. PREGAP and POSTGAP commands are only used with WAVs that have the gaps left out. If you want gaps larger than 00:03.00, you should operate with INDEXes and WAVs created the usual way (that is, with gaps appended to previous track). As Egor's post indicates, the limit on PREGAP/POSTGAP length seems be harware imposed rather than a software bug.

Out of curiosity, I tried the same cue sheet again; this time with PREGAP/POSTGAP down to 3 sec each. The results were slightly bizarre. The NEC 3520A balked at the lead-in stage and ejected the blank. The PX-712A burned it. When I reloaded the CD-R into EAC, I was surprised to see that while the second track turned out as expected, the first track was three seconds of silence. A closer examination revealed that the entire first track appeared as hidden.

Yet, when I loaded the CD-R into a standalone, it played the first track as expected. Same with the NEC: no hidden track.

Thus I would recommend sticking with INDEX and WAVs with gaps appended to previous tracks; or better yet, a single WAV image.