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This is quite an excellent thread with detailed information. Worthy of a sticky!
Originally Posted by Chri5peed Oh, I forgot to mention, I use 'AccurateRip' too. Thats sets up drive offsets. If there are 'inaudible inconcisitencies', I can't hear them, so why should I care exactly? |
I rip my albums using EAC in Secure mode, and do on-the-fly mp3 encoding. (Does anyone else here use LAME --alt-preset standard?) I make sure that I don't auto-delete the wav files, though, because I later replace them with FLACs at compression level 5 (used to be level 7), using FLAC frontend. In this way, I have FLAC files for archive, and mp3 (LAME --alt-preset standard) for my DAP. I only wish I could figure out how to set up EAC so that it can automatically encode to mp3 AND make FLAC files at the same time. I suppose I could mention what optical drive I'm using to rip. It's a BenQ DW1655 Lightscribe DVD-RW. |
Originally Posted by Irregular Joe I make sure that I don't auto-delete the wav files, though, because I later replace them with FLACs at compression level 5 (used to be level 7), using FLAC frontend. In this way, I have FLAC files for archive, and mp3 (LAME --alt-preset standard) for my DAP. I only wish I could figure out how to set up EAC so that it can automatically encode to mp3 AND make FLAC files at the same time. |
Originally Posted by DarkJC I use a program called MAREO that EAC calls after it's done ripping each track that transcodes it to LAME --alt-preset standard and FLAC level 5 and then deletes the original WAV file. Takes a bit of time to setup but it's easy sailing from then on. |
Originally Posted by DarkJC I use a program called MAREO that EAC calls after it's done ripping each track that transcodes it to LAME --alt-preset standard and FLAC level 5 and then deletes the original WAV file. Takes a bit of time to setup but it's easy sailing from then on. |
Originally Posted by The D 15 mins to rip a cd in secure mode? In secure mode my pc rips a cd and encodes them into flac in about 3 minutes and 40 seconds! You all must have very bad cd drives or something. |
Originally Posted by SprySpectre Or you just don't have it set up properly...My primary ripping drive is 52x read, my dvd drive is 24x read. Still, no matter what drive I use, it maxes at about 14x during the operation, and I know for a fact I have it set up properly. Even with brand new cd's that have never been played before, it takes at least 10 minutes start to finish to archive the CD. And the rest of my PC is plenty fast. |
Originally Posted by The D Nope, "Error recovery quality" is set to high and secure mode still rips bad cds fine. |