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Topic: When Corrected = Wrong and Noncompliant = Standard (Read 3465 times) previous topic - next topic
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When Corrected = Wrong and Noncompliant = Standard

Yo, Andre Wiethoof, mighty creator of the outstanding EAC, you really could make things easier for newbies like me if you change some tems in EAC's menus, specially concerning the Create CUE Sheet options:

(A.K.A. "Things That Im almost Sure Were Created Purposely For Misleading And Confusing People")

- "Multiple WAVs with Corrected Gaps": the "corrected" way is usually the wrong way, as the CUE seems to match a gap situation that is not the default one ("Append Gaps to Next Track"). So, this is "corrected" in which way?

- "Multiple WAVs with Gaps (Noncompliant)": the "noncompliant" way is actually the standard way, as it matches the deault gap situation where gaps were appended to the end of previous track.. I know the term "noncompliant" here means that many burners wont recognize/accept such a CUE, because they're very limited in the way they can handle indices and slicing wavs this way. Well, this may be true for Nero and CDRWin, but EAC accepts this CUE. Actually if would be funny if EAC complained about a cue generated by itself. The thing is: the "noncompliant" format is the only that correctly matches the standard gap layout. And, if you use EAC for buning (wich you should: its great, its realiable, its the only one you have control about what youre doing), this CUE works great! If this is the standard way, make it look like it: give it a keyboard shortcut, as the other ones have. Delete this scary "Noncompliant" term.

If the whole point in creating CUE Sheets is to match the gap settings (preserving the indices), their descriptions should also match the gap settings. If we have, for gap settings:

Leave Out Gaps
Append Gaps to Previous Track (default)
Append Gaps to Next Track

Then we should have, for Creating CUE Sheet:

Multiple WAVs with Leftout Gaps
Multiple WAVs with gaps in Previous Track (default)
Multiple WAVs with gaps in Next Track

The last 2 options being the former "Multiple WAVs with Gaps (Noncompliant)" and "Multiple WAVs with Corrected Gaps", respectively.
What about the "Single WAV File" option? My opinion? Take it out of the Create CUE submenu and move it to the "Create Image & Create CUE Sheet" menu! So it will be:

Create Image & Create CUE Sheet
->  Compressed
->  Uncompressed
->  Create CUE Sheet only

This way is far more organized and coherent, IMHO. If CUEs and Gaps are a mater of matching things, then lets make this matching the easiest we can: if there's 3 gap settings, then there should be 3 cue sheet options. With matching names, in same order. further, gap settings should be placed in a submenu too.

Those are just ideias... but I really thing it would help improve EAC in its weak spot: easy to use, user friendly interface.

When Corrected = Wrong and Noncompliant = Standard

Reply #2 –
Just posted there too!
Thanks for the advice!

btw... if Andre dont read here, he really should. Lot of posts in this forum concerns EAC, specially in CD Hardware / Software  threads