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FLAC-The Best way to get it
Nov 5, 2009 at 10:22 PM Thread Starter Post #1 of 43
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I'am new to ripping CD's to FLAC,yesterday I tried ripping a few using EAC, the settings were a bit too overwhelming for me.

Firstly what bit rate to encode FLAC at, also should I be using test and encode, or just encode, any other cool stuff that I must be missing.

Thanks People.
 
Nov 5, 2009 at 10:50 PM Post #2 of 43
If you're a newbie at ripping, I suggest dBpoweramp as a more user friendly, and just as powerful, alternative to EAC. It has better tagging and album art features. And it also has easier integration with AccurateRip, so you can confirm that your rips are bit perfect. I ripped most of my collection with EAC, and only tried dBpoweramp later. Now I wish I had used dBpoweramp all along. The only downside is that it's not free.
 
Nov 5, 2009 at 10:53 PM Post #3 of 43
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Originally Posted by kunalraiker /img/forum/go_quote.gif
I'am new to ripping CD's to FLAC,yesterday I tried ripping a few using EAC, the settings were a bit too overwhelming for me.

Firstly what bit rate to encode FLAC at, also should I be using test and encode, or just encode, any other cool stuff that I must be missing.

Thanks People.


I think you mean what level you want to rip the FLAC at. The higher the number, the more compressed the data will be. So you have a smaller file size, but it will take more CPU power to decode it in time. But the output sound will be the same nevertheless.
 
Nov 5, 2009 at 10:55 PM Post #4 of 43
FLAC doesn't have set bitrates. It does have compression settings, which affects the size of the output file, but not the fidelity.

Hydrogenaudio has pretty nice configuration guides for EAC. This one deals specifically with FLAC configuration.

EDIT: Beaten by the above poster.
 
Nov 6, 2009 at 4:35 PM Post #7 of 43
You do not set a preferred bitrate when encoding to FLAC, or any other lossless codec for that matter.
It will automatically encode to the lowest bitrate possible by the selected algorithm, while storing the audio data without loss. FLAC do have settings though, but they refer to the complexity of the encoding algorithm.
* Higher number (~5-8) = tighter compression and longer encoding time.
* Lower number (~0-4) = looser compression and shorter encoding time.

EAC is a safe choice as a ripper.
 
Nov 6, 2009 at 6:02 PM Post #8 of 43
just do a `flac -8 whatever.wav`; works wonderfully.
 
Nov 6, 2009 at 6:26 PM Post #9 of 43
I use EAC to rip my CDs to .wavs. Then I put those WAVs in Flac Frontend. Works like a charm and the best thing is that it also makes tags!
 
Nov 6, 2009 at 7:59 PM Post #11 of 43
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I use EAC to rip my CDs to .wavs. Then I put those WAVs in Flac Frontend. Works like a charm and the best thing is that it also makes tags!


Why? EAC has external encoder option, just use EAC to encode as well.
 
Nov 6, 2009 at 8:31 PM Post #12 of 43
Yep, I know. But I don't know if it makes tags and am too lazy to find out. Also, if I want to rip multiple CDs at once I find it works faster if I first rip them all and then encode them afterwards.
 
Nov 7, 2009 at 12:40 AM Post #14 of 43
I use dbpoweramp with batch ripping plugin. When its done with the ripping (encoded to flac, tagged, album art etc) it just spits out the cd and waits for the next one. Don't even have to push a button on the keyboard
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Nov 7, 2009 at 4:54 AM Post #15 of 43
You probably don't want to compress the file in the highest level.
The size of storage grows so fast in these days, the marginal benefit of highest level of compression simply does not worth it.
You want to save the computing power as much as you can, so playback on either PC or portable device can be easy.

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just do a `flac -8 whatever.wav`; works wonderfully.


 
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