how do I get gapless playback on self-made ripped CD comps?

[Chronon]

Yeah, I know that.   

I guess I should have been more clear.  I was guessing that the LAME header for the mp3 would not be translated over to WAV and 'might' lead to gaps. . . But I suppose it depends on what mp3 decoder you use and whether it sends a gapless un-compressed bitstream to the CD burner (which should probably be the case most of the time).  I was just trying to think through whether this process would preserve gaplessness.

[jhMikeS]

There are problems with the LAME gapless and do not know if it extends to all platforms. Even though I use LAME 3.96.1 with the --nogap switch to encode a full CD from WAV, there are often still audible clicks (very short and quiet) between tracks which if everything were working correctly shouldn't be there. The WAVs play correctly without clicks, can be stitched together without the clicks, and the length in samples of each mod 588 is zero.

One album where this is quite noticeable is Steve Miller / Fly Like an Eagle since the audio volume is uniform across the track boundaries. OGG doesn't have that problem either but I feel everything should work as it should.

I can't currently place this in the bug reports of course.