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"EAC" Exact Audio Copy program questions

post #1 of 10
1/27/08 at 11:38pm
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Hi all,

Hope I am posting this in the right spot.

I am hoping someone here is familar with the program called EAC?

Previously I have always ripped music from CD's to Apple Lossless (m4a) format using Itunes. The other day I read a post that said Itunes is not very good at this. So I started to look into EAC.

Can EAC convert to Apple Lossless? I can't seem to work out how.

I want to be able to play back on my Ipod/Imod - so I'm not sure what other format I can use other than Apple Lossless or .wav?

For use on an Ipod, what format should I be telling EAC to convert to? Must be a lossless format ofcourse.

Thanks if you can help.
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post #2 of 10
1/27/08 at 11:51pm
Itunes will do as good a job as anything at compressing to ALAC. Other programs use the apple library to do the compression and add their own front end to it.

-Pony
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post #3 of 10
1/28/08 at 12:34am
Thread Starter 
Thanks for the reply Pony.

Thats interesting what you said. It was only a day or so ago I read a post on head-fi, where someone said they used to rip with Itunes and it did a terrible job according to them, so they started to use EAC.

A few others then replied saying they used either EAC, MAX, or dbPoweramp. Got me thinking am I doing something wrong by using Itunes.
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post #4 of 10
1/28/08 at 12:41am
I've yet to see something beat iTunes as long as error correction is enabled. Seriously.
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post #5 of 10
1/28/08 at 12:45am
Use EAC if itunes cannot rip it intact (for example when a CD is pretty beat up). You will know because iTunes will freeze up if it can't encode it properly. Otherwise just use iTunes.
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post #6 of 10
1/28/08 at 7:56am
If the CD is heavily scratched, iTunes will read it incorrect WITHOUT realizing it. It will tell you that the rip was successful although it was not. This is not iTunes' fault, it's the Audio CD format itself. Unlike Data CDs, Audio CDs don't contain error correction data. A ripper can not verify the data it reads and will rip 'blindly'.

EAC and dbpoweramp have secure reading modes, which rerip the data and check if it changes each time (ehich would mean the the drive just reads garbage).
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post #7 of 10
2/7/08 at 8:42am
There's a huge thread, iTunes does not rip accurate audio data, in which, after some testing, with error correction switched on and using a Mac, an AIFF rip from iTunes and an EAC rip of the same CD came out identical.
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post #8 of 10
2/7/08 at 10:33am
Quote:
Originally Posted by jamespb78 View Post
A few others then replied saying they used either EAC, MAX, or dbPoweramp. Got me thinking am I doing something wrong by using Itunes.
Whatever
Seriously, if something is wrong enough with a rip to be bothered by it, you will hear it, and you can still use EAC then. iTunes with enabled error correction usually does a good job, no complaints here. If you like your paranoia always use EAC to rip to AIFF/WAV and then throw the stuff at iTunes, importing the files as ALAC.
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post #9 of 10
2/7/08 at 2:53pm
EAC is better.

Use this guide: jiGGafellz' Step-by-Step Guide to Secure CD Ripping w/Exact Audio Copy

iTunes is fine for converting FLAC to ALAC.
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post #10 of 10
2/7/08 at 3:22pm
If you dont want to stick with ALAC you could also consider Rockboxing it to get full flac support.

Otherwise i'm with above^^
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