[naamanf]

What is the consensus on the best ripper for FLAC files?

 

[1badmf]

This has been discussed quite a few times. But EAC and FLAC is the best way to do it. Oh and it's free. Here's a guide:

http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index....e=EAC_and_Flac

 

[Redo]

My favorite ripping guide:


http://calonet.org/eac



I recommend -5 as well, best bang for your buck flac encoding

. It encodes fast, and is nearly identical in filesize to -8. -8 takes forever.

 

[jmmtn4aj]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Redo /img/forum/go_quote.gif I recommend -5 as well, best bang for your buck flac encoding . It encodes fast, and is nearly identical in filesize to -8. -8 takes forever.

It does? -8 takes less than a minute per 4-6 minute track for me.

Oh and yeah, I love that guide too

 

[Redo]

Quote:

Originally Posted by jmmtn4aj /img/forum/go_quote.gif It does? -8 takes less than a minute per 4-6 minute track for me. Oh and yeah, I love that guide too

-5 takes me about 10 seconds per 4-6 min track

 

[jmmtn4aj]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Redo /img/forum/go_quote.gif -5 takes me about 10 seconds per 4-6 min track

Yeah mine takes about 10-20 seconds per track come to think of it..

 

[Joshatdot]

I did various WAV file tests with FLAC -0, -4, and -8. Most of the time there was very little difference in file size. Maybe 500kb between -0 and -8, and very little difference between -4 & -8.



My bad, I was testing a White, Pink Noise & Brown Noise WAV files. I did some on actual music WAV's, theres a big difference between -0 & -4, but not as much between -4 & -8.