That's not exactly the way I remember it. Here's how I remember it:

- Lame doesn't put VBR headers on Nogap files.

- We never determined why it behaved this way.

- We guessed it was maybe because VBR headers screwed up gapless playback on some players. Not the empeg with the latest software, but just some players. Maybe. So perhaps that's why they did it. But that's just a guess.

- We found that we could run a VBR-header-adder tool on the files and they would still play right on the car player... PROVIDED that the VBR-header-adder tool didn't have a bug that stripped the last frame off of the file.

I don't think LAME needs any bug fixing...