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post #16 of 22
12/25/09 at 9:07am
Which website is the best to find EAC? Please don't let it be one with many adverts and junk.

Haali's media splitter is pretty interesting too.
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post #17 of 22
12/25/09 at 9:45am
Click this to download eac I think you won't find any adverts or junk

Read this if your AV goes beserk
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post #18 of 22
12/25/09 at 10:06am
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Originally Posted by Deep Funk View Post
Which website is the best to find EAC? Please don't let it be one with many adverts and junk.

Haali's media splitter is pretty interesting too.
I would say http://download.digital-world.de, following the link at the EAC website.
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post #19 of 22
12/25/09 at 10:43am
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I would say http://download.digital-world.de, following the link at the EAC website.
Click my link instead, much better
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post #20 of 22
12/25/09 at 1:07pm
There are 2 reasons I like about dbPowerAmp over EAC and one thing I like better about EAC.

For dbPowerAmp, I like that it accesses more metadata databases than just freedb. freedb doesn't have all of my CDs and the tags for classical are horrible. The access to the best databases does come with an annual fee, but it's worth it to me.

The second thing I like about it is how it does ALAC. It uses Nero's codec instead of iTunes. Because EAC uses iTunes to create the ALAC files, I can't do anything else on the computer while ripping.

The one think I like more about EAC is it's error reporting. dbPowerAmp just says there was an error. EAC tells you exactly where the error is and give you an option to listen to it. If I have errors on a rip, I'll rerip with EAC so I can get the report. EAC still gets the error, but there are sometimes that I can't hear it.

Speed isn't a factor for me because I've turned on secure rip in dbPowerAmp. It always reads the CD twice. I buy a lot of used CDs and when they are beat up, I turn on ultra secure rip, so it can take even longer than EAC. If after the 2nd rip, it doesn't agree with AccuateRip, it will reread up to 6 times. If the disk isn't in AccuateRip, it will alway read 8 times.
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post #21 of 22
12/25/09 at 2:53pm
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Originally Posted by JMT391 View Post
Before re-ripping all of your music library into FLAC or any other lossless format, make sure you can tell the difference on your setup. Re-rip a CD you know very well into a lossless format, and use foobar's ABX comparator using one lossy rip and one lossless rip of a song.

If you can run 10-20 trials without having a high %chance of guessing, go ahead and re-rip. If not, you're better off waiting until you have better equipment.
Good advice.
I just started into computer audio (anyone want to buy a nice CD player?).
I began with flac, but just for curiosity I did a few in aiff.

In spite of what people say, flac does not sound as good as aiff.

I did a test with my son & his friend as well. They both heard more bass and wider soundstage with aiff. Definitely a difference.

So now I'm starting over ripping.
Yes the files are a lot larger, but I have a couple of 1 TB drives, so there is tons of room.
At around $170 for the drive, there's no reason not to rip at full strength.
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post #22 of 22
12/25/09 at 5:38pm
I'm giving EAC a run at the moment. I'll need external hard drives.
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