Feature requests...?

I'm loving EAC, getting accurate rips of my CD collection to FLAC, but
there are a couple of things I wish it did...

Firstly, it could start the external program to convert the format as
soon as it starts ripping each track, and feed it the data down a pipe,
rather than ripping, saving to WAV, and FLAC'ing afterwards. Or even
just continue ripping track N+1 while track N is being FLAC'ed. This
would probably halve the time it takes for most of my CDs (tracks get
ripped at up to 20x, but total progress is rarely over 10x).

Secondly, any chance of adding artwork? I know there are other programs
to do that like mp3tag but it would be SO COOL if EAC could do it too...
save me even more time ripping, and I've hundreds of CDs still to do.

If these are already possible or can be made to happen but I've just not
pushed the right buttons or I could hook in another external program,
I'd be glad to hear too...

Cheers,

John.