Wack is an application similar to M.A.R.E.O and was the next logical step after working on Flacattack. Wack allows you to work in conjunction with E.A.C. to create a digital copy of your CD collection. Wack gives you the ability to create multiple copies of your collection using different audio formats, while still only requiring you to rip your CDs one time. You can choose to create image and cuesheet files or individual files for each track using any number of audio formats. A typical situation is one where you would archive your collection using a lossless encoder and then have a lossy encoded copy of your collection for use on a portable device.

Wack is compatible with most encoders including Lame, Musepack, Ogg Vorbis, FAAC, ITunesEncode, Flac, Wavpack, Monkey's Audio, True Audio, OptimFrog, La, Shorten, and possibly others.

The Wack download includes a program called wavsplit created by Tangerine from Hydrogenaudio.

Thanks a lot!

A question though - I had a quick look at the encoder.ini..

Is it mandatory to set EXEPATH and REPLAYGAINEXEPATH for each and every encoder? I tend to keep those executables in the PATH anyway, so it would be easier to only specify the name instead.
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matroska output planned ?

Christian
matroska project admin
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matroska output planned ? smile.gif

Christian
matroska project admin

I looked into Matroska a bit, but I'm not sure if I will support it any time soon. However, I reserve the right to change my mind.

I'm thinking I'll have to implement some other variable, that when found by Wack, will tell it that album gain should be applied by making a list of all the encoded files for that album and appending them to the replaygain command line arguments.

And here's another one some people might be interested in...

INSTANCES=2 (default to 1)

so that multiple encoders can be run at once (for those with SMP/dual-core/Hyperthreading). This one isn't greed, I don't have any of these things

Cheers!
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1) One that prints out the --scale value in decibels instead - just calculate 10E(scale * 0.05). I'd personally use this for tagging, some encoders might also use that instead of --scale.

2) the date (year, month, day).

3) The track # formatted to xx/xx format instead of just x.

Also, I'm thinking that rather than using lame's crummy ID3 support i'd just pass parameters to something like this. Figure I can probably do that just by pretending its a replaygain program, but since that sounds hackish, maybe you should change the replaygain parameters to simply "post-processor" or something.

3)Is this for tagging or what are you thinking? I guess I could add that too pretty easily.

I'll add these to the to-do list.
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Once EAC has written the WAVE it pauses, waiting for WACK to become free again. Once I finally notice that I still have a WACK console open I close it. WACK begins as it should, but WavSplit throws an error, cancelling the whole operation. I don't know whether the previous instance of WACK hasn't had chance to release the hold on it or something.

1) One that prints out the --scale value in decibels instead - just calculate 10E(scale * 0.05). I'd personally use this for tagging, some encoders might also use that instead of --scale.

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1) One that prints out the --scale value in decibels instead - just calculate 10E(scale * 0.05). I'd personally use this for tagging, some encoders might also use that instead of --scale.

@Jebus and everybody else too

Are you sure this is the correct formula to calculate the decibels? I'm getting some weird  numbers.
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        dB = 20. * log10(scale);