Stupid question for EAC users

[TMHBAT]

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Originally Posted by hciman77 Easy mistake to make. The file you downloaded is an installer. To get the flac executable installed you just run the installer and it will put flac.exe in C:\Program Files\FLAC - this flac.exe file is the one you have to browse to. As for the bit rate stuff - if you use FLAC the bit rate stuff is ignored as EAC calls a DOS window to run FLAC with the command line you supply.

Actually, that was a pretty dumb mistake to make. I'm still doing something wrong, though, because this time the file was a little tiny M3U file that I couldn't do anything with.

However, I did figure out how to use the FLAC Frontend to encode the WAVs I ripped with EAC, which is frustrating, if I should be able to do it all within EAC, but at least gets me to the same place. I downloaded MediaMonkey and (as near as I can tell), played my first FLAC file.

Thing is, the resulting file is not very compressed: 50MB down to 41MB (?). That's almost not worth the trouble. Isn't this supposed to be ~50% compression?

 

[binkgle]

i know you're probably sick of guides, but please follow this one for ripping flac files :

http://users.pandora.be/satcp/eac-qs-en.htm


it's best if you put the flac.exe (which you got from running the flac installer) in the same folder as eac.exe.

on my computer flac files are significantly smaller than wavs (sometimes a difference of up to 20 MB). i rip with flac -8, the highest compression command.

 

[TMHBAT]

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Originally Posted by binkgle i know you're probably sick of guides, but please follow this one for ripping flac files : http://users.pandora.be/satcp/eac-qs-en.htm it's best if you put the flac.exe (which you got from running the flac installer) in the same folder as eac.exe. on my computer flac files are significantly smaller than wavs (sometimes a difference of up to 20 MB). i rip with flac -8, the highest compression command.

Thanks. I completely started over and followed that guide. I found nothing obvious that I'd been missing in my previous attempts, but now EAC both rips and compresses to FLAC (although still only at a ratio of about 0.75). I don't know if this makes me feel like more or less of an idiot.

So I guess next it will be on to configuring playback. Kmixer and ASIO and all that crap. I'd say that that couldn't be any more of a headache than this was, but that's probably tempting the audio gods to toy with me further.

 

[uzziah]

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Originally Posted by hciman77 EAC does not have a specific option for FLAC so it has to be configured to have it as a "User defined Encoder" - so you then tell it where to find the FLAC executable and the command line options i.e. http://www.saunalahti.fi/cse/EAC/index.html Towards the bottom of the (short) page you get the options for FLAC encoding. I just tried this and it worked perfectly, it compressed to about 50%

so i did this. but what level is it compressing? -5? can someone post an alternate command line? perhaps -8?


btw: this is what i do:
1. config to myden's best mp3
2. install flac
3. tweak a few settings to hydrogen audio's guide:
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/...howtopic=30959
4. cancel "write status report on extraction" so i don't get a status report file in my "my music folder" (which is where i send everything)
5. also set to access freedb automatically (no alt-g needed)

i was using flac frontend, and i may just go back to that. it seems it really IS a bit faster, as when using EAC's flac plugin it compresses each track before it goes to the next. what i do with frontend is this:

rip one cd to wav with eac
put in new cd
encode to flac with frontend previous cd
start eac on new cd while flac is encoding previous

thus flac is encoding previous cd while eac is ripping current. it should be faster.

not to mention eac is giving me weird beeping noises now with flac encoder

i use a liteon cdrw/dvd drive. i don't use accurate rip or read offset, though i could. liteon is the king of redbook extraction

 

[Febs]

This is probably the best EAC configuration guide that I've seen:

http://www.misticriver.net/showthread.php?p=282942

 

[uzziah]

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Originally Posted by Febs This is probably the best EAC configuration guide that I've seen: http://www.misticriver.net/showthread.php?p=282942

i like it

btw: i'm configuring accurate rip ATM, and back to using frontend

 

[TMHBAT]

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Originally Posted by uzziah so i did this. but what level is it compressing? -5? can someone post an alternate command line? perhaps -8? [. . .] i was using flac frontend, and i may just go back to that. it seems it really IS a bit faster, as when using EAC's flac plugin it compresses each track before it goes to the next. what i do with frontend is this:

You can set it to -8 in the "Additional Command Line" under Compression Options. However, I only got 0.75 compression ratio with this.

Under "EAC Options" -> "Tools" tab, check "On extraction, start external compressors queued in the background."

 

[TMHBAT]

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Originally Posted by uzziah btw: i'm configuring accurate rip ATM

This seems like a pretty cool idea, although I doubt much of my music is in their database yet. Anyway, may as well contribute if nothing else.

 

[Chri5peed]

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Originally Posted by TMHBAT This seems like a pretty cool idea, although I doubt much of my music is in their database yet. Anyway, may as well contribute if nothing else.

You'd be surprised. I have found it has a lot of my albums which I thought were quite rare.
You only need 2 other rip results to validate yours. Chances of 3 people having the same errors is pretty umpossible.

My Iron Maiden CDs had 10 other results.

...and you're right of course, it needs users to make it even better.


If you get 'dBpowerAMP' it has an option to check if the album is in the database. If it is and its a good CD I use EAC in burst mode, if not I use secure mode to get a report.

 

[Albatross05]

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Originally Posted by TMHBAT You can set it to -8 in the "Additional Command Line" under Compression Options. However, I only got 0.75 compression ratio with this. Under "EAC Options" -> "Tools" tab, check "On extraction, start external compressors queued in the background."

See.....IMHO, this is all more trouble than it's worth. I just use CDEX. Simple to use and the quality is just fine with APE.