dBpoweramp vs EAC Options

[Yuna]

Hi,

I looked on the home page of dBpoweramp and i saw that dBpoweramp cost $$$. Is this true ?

Now, i use EAC .99pb5 for ripping my CD in FLAC (with AccurateRip) but EAC seem to have no more support of his developer. The last EAC's update is 1 year ago (May 7, 2009).

When i rip my CD (most are japanese import CD) I need have the UTF-8 (japanese characters) support for tags and track titles. I hate do manually the tags for my ripped CD.

I want know if dBpoweramp is better that EAC ?

Also, EAC take only freedb but dBpoweramp take more (MG, GD3, SonataDB, MusicBrainz and freedb).

Do dBpoweramp take UTF-8 support ?


thank for your opinion.

[Yuna]

Maybe CUERipper/CUETools is doing what you want.

You will have to start the CUERipper.exe directly, or create a link on your desktop or wherever you like. What I did was to copy to the extracted directory to "program files", renamed it "CUE Tools" and created a link on my desktop for CUETools and for CUERipper.

CUERipper gets the metadata from MusicBrainz among others, and since it's a .NET application it should support UTF-8.

Do CUERipper/CUETools automatically create a CUESheet file embedded or not?

[Fandango]

Do CUERipper/CUETools automatically create a CUESheet file embedded or not?

Yes, CUE Ripper always creates a cue sheet and a log. You can choose between a faked EAC log or CUE Ripper's native log which is very similar to the log created by CUE Tools. Of course, I would not recommend using the fake EAC log option, since it contains bogus information and lacks other information relevant to the mechanisms that are unique to CUE Ripper, CTDB info for example.

You can choose between image rip and track based rip. For the latter a non-compliant EAC-style cue sheet will be created.

This post has been edited by Fandango: May 14 2010, 20:35