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Using FLAC to rip my audio CD collection

I'd like to re-rip my entire audio CD collection to a lossless format for archival purposes. I selected FLAC because I heard about it through the Ogg project. Now... im on a quest for the perfect flac settings/args.


I've decided to NOT use the one file / cue sheet layout as I'd like to keep the albums laid out in such a way that it can be easy/trival to encode vorbis files or other formats off of them.

I think I'll stick with the standard flac container rather the Ogg Flac container as I don't see how it could be beneficial to a simple audio CD collection.

I also want to embed comments that match my filenaming scheme;

Artist Name - Album Name - Track Number - Track Name

This metaflac vs typical ID3tag vs ? is all very confusing me to. Im not sure what the proper way to embed those 4 elements to the file.

Anyways, my question to you guys is;

What flac settings would you use for a good, long-term audio CD collection ripped to FLAC?

Using FLAC to rip my audio CD collection

Reply #1 –
If encoding speed is not decisive, you could use

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-8 --padding=4096 --tag=artist="%a" --tag=title="%t" --tag=album="%g" --tag=tracknumber="%n" %s


in EAC to create your FLAC files.

If you need to increase encoding speed, change the first argument to something lower.

If you also want to include the album date or a track comment in your tags, just add

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--tag=date="%y" or --tag=comment="%e"


respectively.