@ bewley,
looked into this again (and today I found out that even Nero is able to re-rip files from the cd file audio
directly to flac or wav, or many other formats...including m4a) and doing this, the 2 seconds gaps are always ignored, it rips the tracks, and not the gaps. The gaps are set as default by the program when you rip to cd, but they are not read in any way when reripping from the cd to a format you want to save them in.
Tried it with Easy CD-DA Extractor (which is the software I usually use when encoding) and it's the same thing, gaps are ignored and files match.
@ The Lamb,
I too used CD Architect some time ago (before discovering that "mistreated" Nero does it "quicker and good" too
); I still have it in my HD somewhere, and it
is a good software that gives you all you need.
But WaveLab is by far the best, if you are in a perfectionist groove (that's my husband's software, and I used it in the past...when I had much more free time
).
http://www.steinberg.net/128_1.htmlDownside though is that it comes with too many features that if not used professionally isn't really needed (and this makes it's price not very popular).
In the end, especially if I need only some fairly good and quick audio ripping for my personal enjoyment, Nero is the one I use more
