The problem is not that I'm losing quiet sections of tracks or that it is not splitting the tracks. This even happens when I manually split the tracks by clicking on the "split track" button. What I've noticed is that, whether I split the tracks manually or use automatic track splitting, as I start the recording process with the beginning of the vinyl record, it first gives a message "Waiting for sound", then it changes to "Recording sound" and the time counter gets up to about 3-4 seconds and then it goes back to 1 again. The same thing happens at the end of each succeeding cut. This would seem to account for "skipping" at the beginning of each track in the recording. When I play it back after recording, as the first track is about 10 seconds from the end, it indicates that it's buffering and then it begins to fade and there's an overlap with the next track, and there's also a "skip" of a couple of seconds at the beginning of the second track. This happens even when there is much silent space between cuts on the vinyl. It almost seems like it's operating under the option to "Trim silence from gaps", but I definitely have not selected that option.
I have already tried your suggestions many times regarding the volume and the maximum gap level, as well as changing the maximum track length values, and no matter what values I use, I continue to have this problem. Also, I am going from the turntable through a pre-amp and then into the sound card, and the quality of the recordings is quite good. My only issue is this problem at the beginning of each track.
I'd appreciate any ideas you might have.