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EAC to FLAC too slow! Need some help.

I'm following LINK REMOVED that configures EAC to FLAC and my rips are going through more than 1 hour. I'd like some help to get things faster.

Thanks!

EAC to FLAC too slow! Need some help.

Reply #1 –
Use a less secure mode in EAC or get a faster CDROM.

EAC to FLAC too slow! Need some help.

Reply #2 –
If you have a multi-core CPU, you might get better results with dbPoweramp. It will use multiple cores during the encode phase.

EAC to FLAC too slow! Need some help.

Reply #3 –
Which is not relevant to answering the obviously abnormal problem of EAC taking an hour to rip.

Unless the drive in question is just incredibly bad as an irreperable consequence of its construction and/or condition, something is not right with the settings that are being used.

Also, back to that suggestion, I thought even the fastest available CD drives are slower than most modern encoders at most settings on modestly modern CPUs, meaning that accumulating multiple uncompressed tracks as uncompressed files and then parallelising their encoding offers no benefit whatsoever? The bottleneck in such cases will necessarily be the drive.

EAC to FLAC too slow! Need some help.

Reply #4 –
I'm sure it has everything to do with telling EAC that the drive caches audio data.  dBpoweramp will give better results for this as well, assuming the drive does in fact cache audio data, otherwise configure the drive as non-caching.

Test & copy also doubles the ripping time rarely providing any benefit unless used in burst mode or with C2 pointers.  Without a doubt the redacted guide requires T&C in secure mode w/out C2 pointers (in addition to always configuring drives as caching).  Again, dBpoweramp already safely handles this more efficiently.

http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?ti...gory:EAC_Guides

I will gladly debate any differences between our guides and those you may find elsewhere.  People defending uniform settings for file sharing purposes need not bother.

EAC to FLAC too slow! Need some help.

Reply #5 –
I'm using this drive:
HL-DT-STBD-RE  WH14NS40

and using Intel Core i5-3470 CPU @ 3.20GHz, 8Gb RAM

EAC to FLAC too slow! Need some help.

Reply #6 –
Try another drive and see what happens. They really are very cheap nowadays.

Did you use the guide on this site as suggested?

EAC to FLAC too slow! Need some help.

Reply #7 –
My drive is a bluray recorder. Don't know if it's easy to get one.
Is it ok with V.1.0 beta1?

EAC to FLAC too slow! Need some help.

Reply #8 –
Quote from: tbeat03 on
My drive is a bluray recorder. Don't know if it's easy to get one.
Is it ok with V.1.0 beta1?

I have both a Blu-ray recorder drive and a DVD writer. I never use the Blu-ray drive for ripping because it's waaaay slower than the DVD drive. You might want to invest a few bucks in a DVD drive if you're doing a lot of ripping. As someone said, they're really inexpensive these days. Any major brand will do, but I'm happy with my Sony Optiarc (no longer made), for which I paid all of $18.

EAC to FLAC too slow! Need some help.

Reply #9 –
Quote from: tbeat03 on
My drive is a bluray recorder. Don't know if it's easy to get one.
Is it ok with V.1.0 beta1?


I ended up buying a DVD drive purely for ripping. It shouldn't have been an issue but I was frequently getting ripping errors with the drive, I don't get them with the DVD drive. However it works fine for playing/ripping BR. I never managed to figure out the issue. This is why I suggested getting another drive. DVD-RW drives are very cheap. Either that or see if you can borrow a friends

EAC to FLAC too slow! Need some help.

Reply #10 –
Quote from: tbeat03 on
I'm using this drive:
HL-DT-STBD-RE  WH14NS40

and using Intel Core i5-3470 CPU @ 3.20GHz, 8Gb RAM


Is this a laptop?  I have found laptop drives to be notoriously slow ripping audio discs.  Between work laptops and personal laptops (6 in total over the years from different manufactuers), I have yet to come across one that would rip as quickly as a desktop PC or a laptop with an external drive connected via USB.

EAC to FLAC too slow! Need some help.

Reply #11 –
Quote from: probedb on
I ended up buying a DVD drive purely for ripping. It shouldn't have been an issue but I was frequently getting ripping errors with the drive, I don't get them with the DVD drive. However it works fine for playing/ripping BR. I never managed to figure out the issue.

My limited understanding is that the blue laser mechanism is optimized for tracking BD media, and doesn't do as good a job on other media.

EAC to FLAC too slow! Need some help.

Reply #12 –
No, I'm using a desktop.
When I used Burst mode it was quick, but I don't know if the ripping is accurate. Also it didn't show the track quality, so I had to change to secure mode.

EAC to FLAC too slow! Need some help.

Reply #14 –
Quote from: tbeat03 on
Is it ok with V.1.0 beta1?

If you upgrade to V1.0 beta 3 you can verify your rips against the CTDB database as well.

http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/en/index.php/...-new/whats-new/
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September 22, 2011

The released beta 3 of EAC is probably the first really stable 1.0 version, as many more bugs are fixed. For an exact list, please read the News.rtf file, which is stored in the EAC directory by the installer (and which can be accessed via the start menu).
This version includes the CTDB plugin written by Gregory Chudov. It will not be installed by default, you need to check the plugin option in the installer. If everything works as expected, the next version of EAC will come with the CTDB plugin installed by default. So try it out now!
korth

EAC to FLAC too slow! Need some help.

Reply #15 –
also, I've borrowed from a friend some compilations cds made from himself (don't know if he got a direct copy of an original disc or just made a "mix" of his mp3) and, when I try using EAC to flac it gets all aborted.

EAC to FLAC too slow! Need some help.

Reply #16 –
With what symptoms? What error message? Any usable information at all?

EAC to FLAC too slow! Need some help.

Reply #17 –
I wish we had something like a TOS8 for DAE "issues".

This discussion has been floundering with incomplete information on the part of just about everyone involved so far.  I've mainly kept my nose out of this one as the last two topics we had on DAE were bad enough.

No log file, no additional input from me.

EAC to FLAC too slow! Need some help.

Reply #18 –
Quote from: maggior on
Quote from: tbeat03 on
I'm using this drive:
HL-DT-STBD-RE  WH14NS40

and using Intel Core i5-3470 CPU @ 3.20GHz, 8Gb RAM


Is this a laptop?  I have found laptop drives to be notoriously slow ripping audio discs.  Between work laptops and personal laptops (6 in total over the years from different manufactuers), I have yet to come across one that would rip as quickly as a desktop PC or a laptop with an external drive connected via USB.



Quote from: db1989 on
With what symptoms? What error message? Any usable information at all?

This is the log:

Quote
Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 1 from 15. November 2010

EAC extraction logfile from 25. August 2013, 13:31

- / 432 Hz Schumann Ressonance

Used drive  : HL-DT-STBD-RE  WH14NS40  Adapter: 1  ID: 0

Read mode : Burst

Read offset correction                      : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out          : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks  : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations      : Yes
Used interface                              : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling                                : Appended to previous track

Used output format              : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate                : 128 kBit/s
Quality                        : High
Add ID3 tag                    : No
Command line compressor        : C:\Program Files (x86)\FLAC\flac.exe
Additional command line options : -T "artist=%a" -T "title=%t" -T "album=%g" -T "date=%y" -T "tracknumber=%n" -T "genre=%m" -5 %s


TOC of the extracted CD

    Track |  Start  |  Length  | Start sector | End sector
    ---------------------------------------------------------
        1  |  0:00.00 | 14:59.58 |        0    |    67482 
        2  | 14:59.58 | 61:00.19 |    67483    |  342001 
        3  | 76:00.02 |  4:00.04 |    342002    |  360005 


Track  1

    Filename C:\EAC\\ - 432 Hz Schumann Ressonance\01 - Track01.wav

    Pre-gap length  0:00:02.00

    Timing problem 0:00:00

    Copy aborted

Track  2

    Filename C:\EAC\\ - 432 Hz Schumann Ressonance\02 - Track02.wav

    Timing problem 0:00:00

    Copy aborted

Track  3

    Pre-gap length  1:01:00.19

    Copy aborted


1 track(s) not fully ripped for AccurateRip lookup
2 track(s) canceled

No tracks could be verified as accurate

There were errors

End of status report

EAC to FLAC too slow! Need some help.

Reply #19 –
That just makes it look like something is wrong with your friend’s burn, rendering it unreadable by your drive. Try a different drive, settings, program, and/or copy of the burnt CD.