Virtually all my music seems to be continuous mixes and after much messing & heartache I finally arrived on a combination that works 100% for me.

Rip in EAC using CDDB to name the files (as per your desire).

Drag 'n' Drop files into WinLAME http://winLAME.sourceforge.net (which as far as I know is the only LAME frontend to offer --nogap support) & encode (personally I use CBR 256, so I can't vouch for the validity of this with VBR although WinLAME supports it).

Because of the --nogap issue alone, I am now a WinLAME convert (nice tweakable presets & free too, yum).

Sim