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EAC: how to compress after full rip (!per track)

I'm trying to configure EAC to run the external (lame) WAV->MP3 compression after an entire CD is ripped, rather than after each track is ripped, because right now, my CD ripping time stinks.

Can't find the option anywhere in EAC config. I'm thinking about disabling compression -- just using EAC for ripping and manually compresing each folder afterwards.

Am I missing the option in EAC?

EAC: how to compress after full rip (!per track)

Reply #1
First of all, you should enable the option Tools - On extraction, start external compressors queued in the background and set the number below to your amount of logical CPUs. This will cause EAC to rip the next track while the current one is being encoded.

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First of all, you should enable the option Tools - On extraction, start external compressors queued in the background and set the number below to your amount of logical CPUs. This will cause EAC to rip the next track while the current one is being encoded.
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Thanks for the great tip - and for the quick response.  I read this to mean a setting of 0 if you have 1 CPU, so that's what I'll do.  Is there a FAQ I should read up on somewhere?

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Reply #3
Next question:  is it okay to run two instances of EAC ripping from two drives simultaneously?

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I read this to mean a setting of 0 if you have 1 CPU, so that's what I'll do.

To start 0 (=zero, no) compressors in the background while the next track is ripped makes no sense.

1 for a single core CPU (i.e. Athlon 64)
2 for a single core CPU with Hyper-Threading (i.e. Pentium 4)
2 for a dual core CPU (i.e. Athlon X2 or Pentium D)
4 for a dual core CPU with Hyper-Threading (i.e. Pentium D Extreme Edition)

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I read this to mean a setting of 0 if you have 1 CPU, so that's what I'll do.

To start 0 (=zero, no) compressors in the background while the next track is ripped makes no sense.

1 for a single core CPU (i.e. Athlon 64)
2 for a single core CPU with Hyper-Threading (i.e. Pentium 4)
2 for a dual core CPU (i.e. Athlon X2 or Pentium D)
4 for a dual core CPU with Hyper-Threading (i.e. Pentium D Extreme Edition)
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Thanks for helping it make sense.

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Next question:  is it okay to run two instances of EAC ripping from two drives simultaneously?
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Yes, but if your drives are on the same IDE channel, then no

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Reply #7
Also, you can make use of 'Compression queue control center' (Tools menu).
After you enable compressing in the background (EAC config, Tools tab), you can pause the queue, and then unpause it after you've done ripping in the control center

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1 for a single core CPU (i.e. Athlon 64)
Is it the same case with AMD Athlon XP? 
...or is it better to rip everything and then unpause the compression queue?
Sorry for my poor English, I'm trying to get better... ;)
"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled, was convincing the world he didn't exist."

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1 for a single core CPU (i.e. Athlon 64)
Is it the same case with AMD Athlon XP? 

Yes...

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...or is it better to rip everything and then unpause the compression queue?

No...

-Martin.