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I see that this was the right place to fire off this question. Thanks for your feedback. It has given me a base to start some trials. I used to use EAC on Windows, but I tend to only use open source software as much as possible and I don't use Windows any more. I gave a brief look at abcde, but it is clear I need to look at this some more. It looks like it has the potential to do everything I

Firstly, a big thank-you to Josh for FLAC. Someone mentioned it in a post on Slashdot, so I came over to sourceforge for a look-see. This is just the sort of thing I've been looking for. Can anyone relate any general tips for using flac on Windows for the purpose of archiving cd's? If I can nail down a solid, easy-to-use process, I'm happy to write it up and contribute it to the

Josh Coalson wrote: >> III) I've read about the CUEsheet feature of flac where you can store >> the data of cuesheets (at least indices and so) as searchpoints in >> flac. >> But the format seems to be in milliseconds while in CDDA frames are >> exact. >> Is it (because one would have rounding errors) not adivsable to use >> this >> feature, and

Hello wine users: Could someone, please, help me how to make work EAC with wine in openSUSE 10.2? Earlier (SUSE 10.1) I could configure wine to use windows 2000 as default windows version and EAC to use 'native Win32 interface for WinNT/2000/XP' and these worked together fine. Now in openSUSE 10.2 (wine version wine-0.9.37-12.1) when I start EAC with wine I get: a) when the interface

Hey all. I was an "early" adopter of mp3 (1994-1995), and I took great pains to use digital audio extractors and avoid jitter and whatnot thru proper hardware - back then, this was no mean feat. Well, I'm starting to switch to Ogg (dragging out all the CD's, starting over) and I want to know if anyone has an informed opinion on the merits or demerits of "normalization"

josh, thanks for the feedback. now i can start encoding like mad knowing that the generated flac files are ok =) (flac -t said the files were ok, despite metaflac's complaints). i noticed that without the flac-for-winamp plug-in installed, winamp correctly displays the id3 filename (e.g. "Bjork - Human Behavior") in the playlist and also displays the id3 tags in the file

>I can see the other side of the arguement too tho, there may be many >players around now, and in the future that will add flac support, but >not flac-album support :( yes this would be my concern as well. also, individual track support is just more flexible for moving music around between devices. it's funny, i've been on-and-off trying to get the whole eac+flac+id3+cuesheet

> Actually, I was more interested in how you set up the disk array. I think we just set up 3ware IDE raid cards with 200-gig drives, all on 1 PC for now (3/4 slots) and seems to work OK. No case would fit them so it's just sprawled out on a desk away from everything else with 4 power supplies powering the drives. When it's time to buy more disks then I'll have to set up a

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dan Phillips wrote: > With regards the toc problem not compensating for starting from track > 0, is it possible to use the cdrtoa -t or -T options to compensate for > the shift. I am not sure I fully understand the option, but I came > across it and thought I would mention it. I believe the -T and -t flags (to cdparanoia? AFAIK, cdrdao

Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > Dan Phillips wrote: > >> With regards the toc problem not compensating for starting from track > >> 0, is it possible to use the cdrtoa -t or -T options to compensate for > >> the shift. I am not sure I fully understand the option, but I came > >> across it and thought I would mention it. > > I believe the -T and -t flags

Goals: 1. Store meta data 2. Be able to recreate and burn bit-for-bit accurate audio CDs from archive. 3. Be able to "generate" lossy format files (OggVorbis,MP3,etc) with meta info intact when needed. 4. One file per song. 5. Files playable in XMMS and WinAMP3. Questions: Q1. OGG vs FLAC container? Q2. Meta data format? Q3. In detail, how does one do goal 2? Q4. What ripping/encoding

Hello! I am about to buy a new computer, and because encoding/decoding .ogg files is the most processor intensive thing I intend to regularly do, I would like to know which is the "recommended" processor for real-time encoding (I record my favourite radio shows). TIA! Bye, Joane Lispton PS: I receive the FM radio stations through my cable (the one which brings me cable TV),

Hi. My first post over here related to my first try to use WINE. I am using 0.9.58 and the 2.6.24-rt kernel (Ubuntu Studio Hardy Beta) I installed EAC and almost everything works fine expect the ripping speed, which doesn't seem to be adjustable. The drive speed is not exceeding 2-3. I tried all kind of settings. Even setting the drive speed manually up with hdparm -E did not change it.

am a NEW user to flac.installed flac on eac.tried to rip a cd using eac with flac as external compression.tried the 'wav' icontried the 'mp3' iconboth options saves the file as 'wav'thought eac will rip the cd in the 'flac' file format.is this a 2-step procedure?wherein eac to 'wav' and re-ripped on flac frontend?or is there a ripper with flac in it that

I was wondering if anyone was aware of a method for mounting virtual CD devices with CD image files. I keep images (.CUE/.BIN pairs) of my CD collection on a NAS appliance tucked away in my closet. I'd like to write a script to mount each one, create ID tags, rip the tracks, then move along to the next one. I figure with a quad core opteron, it should be able to crank through them in a

> You can ask. A bug report with priority 'enhancement' is probably the > best way to do that. I'd consider it. Thanks for your help, Michael. I have entered this as an enhancement request. <p>Also, for the record, I originally made this comment: > I am actually trying to get OggEnc up and running nicely with > AudioGrabber, but so far I no joy I

Hi, I was hoping somebody could answer me this question:. I'm looking for the best audio CD ripper software, maybe somebody can tell me what you think is the best ripper available? The operating system it runs on is not important, I just want to know what's considered the best audio cd ripping software. In this way I want to make perfect input WAV files for the FLAC encoder. thanks in

This is more of an EAC question, but I have not yet received an answer from my post on that page. Since they are closely related I thought I would give it a try here. I just bought a BIG stack of CDs (70+) and decided to recheck all of my EAC (beta 4) + FLAC (1.1.2) settings prior to ripping and encoding them. I also calibrated a new external Plextor CD-ROM too. The setting string I use in

Greetings, I really love the one flac per cd idea. So, I pulled all my cds out of storage to re-encode them. I've run into a couple of general issues here: I've done some comparisons between eac under windows, and cdrdao under linux. It seems that after converting the cdrdao data to .wav, both programs result in perfectly identical .wav files for the 3 cds I tested. However,

Hi guys, I use EAC to save and compress my CD's to my network drive. In the past my compression to Flac was slightly worse than the file size shown by EAC. Now, since about two weeks ago, my compression ends up at about half the size of EAC i.e. I went from a compression ratio of approx 70% to a ratio of 30%. I get the feeling that the compression is somehow missing something. Or is the