Hello,

I ripped a CD to individual FLAC files with EAC. I then created an audio CD using Burnatonce using those same FLAC files.

I noticed that the burned CD does not have the gaps that the original CD has. The track lengths are the same just no gaps.

Does this mean that gap information is not stored with the FLAC file at all? If so, is it the same with mp3 files?

Does this mean that if I play the newly created flac tracks in foobar that there will now be no gaps at all?

For some reason I thought that gaps were appended to the prior song upon ripping.

Getting somewhat confused by the whole issue . Any help would be appreciated .

Thanks in advance,

-Paul

Gaps are typically not stored, except for single file + CUE. You can "preserve" gaps if you set EAC to make a cuesheet.

If you rip with EAC straight away, it will append gaps to the tracks, but it will not mark them as gaps in any way. If you tell EAC to detect gaps and you selected "Leave out gaps", the gaps will not be copied at all.

I select the default option of "Append gaps to previous track" but the flac files have the same track length as the original tracks on the CD so it appears that the gaps are not being appended. hmmm.

"Gaps" are, like, basically, part of the tracks. I would guess that what you are seeing, as far as track lengths, is normal / expected.


Using EAC with the default method of "append gaps to previous track" -- should equal the results of -- ripping a CD with any other [average] software that doesn't even distinguish the "gaps".

Are you sure that the CD even has gaps? Are you sure the gaps have length greater or equal to one second?