[el_matt0]

good suggestions my friends - i shall take them all to heart earnestly before i undertake the task at hand! at this point, im going to start with just EAC w/ react i think, but if i find the wav-flac part to be timeconsuming whatsoever i will give frontend a try

 

[Mansize_tissue]

I really don't see the point in ripping to wav then converting to flac, when it can be done in a single operation.

 

[el_matt0]

k so mansize your another strong advocate for just using EAC right? would you use react as well (does this make things just "simpler" and more straightforward if i want to rip direct to flac?) or will i be more than fine with just EAC. ive heard EAC is a little complicated...im pretty adapt with computers, its just the technical aspect of the ripping of audio that is new to me (im a little clueless about sampling rates, etc).

 

[Chri5peed]

Lol, don't use iTunes to rip.

iTunes is a player not a ripper. While it is capable of ripping, I'll just say that there is water in my toilet that could be used to brush my teeth with if I wanted to utilize it in that way.

 

[choomanchoo]

I'm proly gonna get ripped for this, ( haha pun intended) but what about Winamp 5.35, it ripps directly into flac,
According to most EAC is the way to go, but for some reason i cant seem to grasp it just yet, so after some looking around I found out that winamp rips to flac, Does anyone have any negatives or positives about this,

 

[Chri5peed]

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Originally Posted by choomanchoo /img/forum/go_quote.gif I'm proly gonna get ripped for this, ( haha pun intended) but what about Winamp 5.35, it ripps directly into flac, According to most EAC is the way to go, but for some reason i cant seem to grasp it just yet, so after some looking around I found out that winamp rips to flac, Does anyone have any negatives or positives about this,

Again, my post is relevant. Winamp may do it, but my Grandmother can kick a football doesn't make her a soccer player.

EAC is just the best ripper out, dBpoweramp is alright.

 

[c0mfortably_numb]

EAC with accuraterip

 

[Mansize_tissue]

I'd just download and install EAC and then do the same with FLAC, and just go from there.

 

[choomanchoo]

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Originally Posted by Chri5peed /img/forum/go_quote.gif Again, my post is relevant. Winamp may do it, but my Grandmother can kick a football doesn't make her a soccer player. EAC is just the best ripper out, dBpoweramp is alright.

ok ok, sheesh, just trying to help a brother out,
anyways thanks for the jigaddellz link,
Aloha,

 

[vcoheda]

dbpoweramp with accuraterip. rip to flac. all good.

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm

 

[Chri5peed]

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Originally Posted by choomanchoo /img/forum/go_quote.gif ok ok, sheesh, just trying to help a brother out, anyways thanks for the jigaddellz link, Aloha,

Not being funny, but theres no righter answer than saying EAC. Even dBpoweramp is missing stuff; no logs, no Cuesheet, no CRC matching, drive offset...

 

[baglunch]

Another vote for EAC and Foobar2000. You'll spend a lot more time sitting at your computer if you wait for EAC to do the FLAC conversion also, across the span of 300+ CDs. I'm doing this same thing right now, and just having EAC rip the CD takes about 7 minutes. Having it do FLAC also takes maybe 8 minutes. Now multiply each of those by 300 and you have the difference in time you'll need to be sitting at your computer. (It's 300 extra minutes... or 5 extra hours). You are already looking at sitting at your computer for 35 hours just doing the 300 CDs. Why not give yourself those extra 5 hours to go do something else. And I am using Foobar2000 because the FLAC conversion is pretty much just a right click -> Convert to... dialog box away. Easy.

 

[Chri5peed]

? Encoding WAV to FLAC takes about 5 seconds. If you really want to, you can set EAC to encode[DOS Window] while its ripping.

The long bit is the ripping, also 8 minutes sounds like using Burst Mode or your computer is one of these http://shop.sun.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP..._US-SunCatalog

 

[Redo]

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Originally Posted by baglunch /img/forum/go_quote.gif Another vote for EAC and Foobar2000. You'll spend a lot more time sitting at your computer if you wait for EAC to do the FLAC conversion also, across the span of 300+ CDs. I'm doing this same thing right now, and just having EAC rip the CD takes about 7 minutes. Having it do FLAC also takes maybe 8 minutes. Now multiply each of those by 300 and you have the difference in time you'll need to be sitting at your computer. (It's 300 extra minutes... or 5 extra hours). You are already looking at sitting at your computer for 35 hours just doing the 300 CDs. Why not give yourself those extra 5 hours to go do something else. And I am using Foobar2000 because the FLAC conversion is pretty much just a right click -> Convert to... dialog box away. Easy.

Maybe at -8, but at -5 (which is nearly identical in filesize), it goes a lot faster. Plus wav's don't carry tags and gapless info, FLAC does. EAC sends all that data to the FLAC files initially, whereas if you don't set it up directly to FLAC, you're left without a whole lot of options besides starting from scratch.


Here's the best ripping guide on the net right now (my old favorite one went down):

http://rip59.dk/EACFlac/EACFlacRipping.html

Just change -8 to -5 in the FLAC line and you're set!

 

[Chri5peed]

^ Lol, some people are thick. They enter wrong drive offsets which are the examples in guides or copy from others logs thinking they're all generic.

The newest EAC[V0.99] at least sets your offset for you.