Advanced EAC Tutorials for Perfect CD Rips

[dfkt]

Here are a few guides for people who take CD ripping seriously. These guides cover proper gap detection/handling, test & copy, drive offsets, and other advanced topics. Get EAC here: http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/

Here's the best guide for the current EAC v1.0b3 version:

• Setting up EAC 1.0 beta 3
• Ripping to FLAC with EAC 1.0 beta 3

Here are some older guides for EAC v0.99 and earlier:

• A very exhaustive multi-page guide, covering pretty much everything, lossy and lossless: http://blowfish.be/eac/ Mirror: http://xunside.info/eac/
  
• An excellent FLAC ripping guide on one page: http://fr33sp33k.h33t.com/index.php?topic=16150.0
• Another guide, less complete than the ones above, lacking a few important settings (but still good): http://www2.firehose.us:81/~jiggafellz/eac/

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[DragonBottles]

Awesome, that's the guide I used when I first got EAC.

I have a document on my computer that explains everything about getting started on EAC, I don't know who published it though so I don't know uploading it is a good idea.

[Marvin the Martian]

That second link, http://blowfish.be/eac/, is the one that I used when I set mine up. Good resource to have here, to steer the newbz to.

[dfkt]

Indeed. Those guides come up all the time in some place or another - I thought it might be useful to stick them. And it's easier than writing it all up myself.

[eboyer93]

I personally prefer the Hydrogen Audio Guides.

[dfkt]

The Hydrogenaudio EAC pages are hard to follow, too disjointed and all over the place. That's why I didn't link them in the first post. It's much easier to follow the Blowfish guide, and it better covers every aspect of (perfect) EAC ripping - while the HA guide also covers many subjects that aren't necessary for perfect rips.

[aki]

The blowfish site contains a trojan?

[dfkt]

I think you might need a more reliable virus scanner and/or firewall.

[Steff8000]

I have a question for the 1st guide. Is the "Extraction Ripping and .cue creation" - section mandatory, or only for hidden tracks and stuff? My english is not that well i guees, since i'm a bit confused. But EAC and flac is new to me, so i'm kinda lost.

[dfkt]

No, that section isn't necessary for normal CDs.

[Steff8000]

When I rip a cd to flac with the settings used from the links, it normaly takes from 45 to 60 -min before the rip is complete. Is this normal?

[dfkt]

Might be your CD/DVD drive is not that good for audio extraction, or your CDs are dirty or scratched. In such cases that time is normal for a 100% perfect rip.

[Marvin the Martian]

All of my older CD's took that long....some of the scratched ones took even longer. I haven't had a new CD to rip in a while to compare though.

[Steff8000]

Ok, well it's probably my CD/DVD drive then. Well, it's kinda annyoing when you have like 200 cd's to rip, but i wan't the best rips possible, so EAC is still the answer i guess

[Marvin the Martian]

Originally Posted by Steff8000

Ok, well it's probably my CD/DVD drive then. Well, it's kinda annyoing when you have like 200 cd's to rip, but i wan't the best rips possible, so EAC is still the answer i guess

I thought I would never finish the task, when I set out to rip my collection....but you're right, better to get the best rip you can.

[eboyer93]

brand new cds take me about 40 to 50 mins to complete.

[Thib]

I uploaded my configuration file, those settings should be "professional", it's been a year I'm using those, I figured it out at different places.
The russians seem extremely professional :O ! It's rather hidden but once you got through the russian internet wow .
I understand most of the settings except UPC / ISRC codes (wth is that ), overread lead-in and lead-out, and a few others...
The settings are basically the same as dfkt, well, the most important at least.
Actually I believe "Overread lead-in and lead-out" is important but I don't know what it means . It has something to do with the synchronization of end and beginning of tracks something like that :O.

What I do then is : "Detect Gaps" F4, "Test Gaps on Silence" F3, create "non compliant cuesheet" and "Test & Copy Selected Tracks".

And after EAC I create .sfv, put a Folder.jpg etc...

[CLipster]

How would on go about using this .cfg file?

thnks

[Thib]

Originally Posted by CLipster

How would on go about using this .cfg file?

thnks

Oh, sorry : EAC -> Profiles -> Load Profile.
Perhaps you should uncheck "Overread into Lead-in and Lead-out" in Drive Options (F10) -> "Offset / Speed".
I think it's in case you're having troubles synchronizing the beginning and the end of tracks but I'm not sure about this, in the "perfect configuration" dfkt linked it isn't checked.

[eboyer93]

If your drive supports it, you want to have that selected.

If you have a positive offset you want your drive to support overeading in lead-in and if you have a negative offset you want your drive to support overreading into lead-out.