Could there be some kind of difference between the factory made hidden tracks and the ones made with EAC?
My original CUE file was this (I chose this CD single because it was the smallest disc image rip in my archive):
PERFORMER "Jimi Hendrix"
TITLE "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year"
FILE "Jimi Hendrix - Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.wav" WAVE
TRACK 01 AUDIO
TITLE "Little Drummer Boy/Silent Night/Auld Lang Syne"
PERFORMER "Jimi Hendrix"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 02 AUDIO
TITLE "Three Little Bears"
PERFORMER "Jimi Hendrix"
INDEX 00 04:28:37
INDEX 01 04:29:65
TRACK 03 AUDIO
TITLE "Little Drummer Boy/Silent Night/Auld Lang Syne (Extended Version)"
PERFORMER "Jimi Hendrix"
INDEX 00 08:42:63
INDEX 01 08:43:70
I made the hidden track CD with this cue:
PERFORMER "Jimi Hendrix"
TITLE "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year"
FILE "Jimi Hendrix - Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.wav" WAVE
TRACK 01 AUDIO
TITLE "Hidden Track & Three Little Bears"
PERFORMER "Jimi Hendrix"
INDEX 00 00:00:00
INDEX 01 04:29:65
TRACK 02 AUDIO
TITLE "Little Drummer Boy/Silent Night/Auld Lang Syne (Extended Version)"
PERFORMER "Jimi Hendrix"
INDEX 00 08:42:63
INDEX 01 08:43:70
I have the Overread into Lead-in and Lead-out option unselected in EAC. (LG 4080B can read into the lead-in, but not into the lead-out. The correct read sample offset correction value is only +6. However, even that small value would need a read into lead-out capability, so I have kept the overread option disabled and filled the missing offset samples with silence instead.)