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I don't understand a thing, in 'Offsets'. I don't know what it is (well, very little). I looked around the forum to read and learn, I didn't find a good explanation (informations) for newbies like me on the subject. Someone have a link for something I could read to learn about 'Offset' settings in EAC?

I want to put the good settings in EAC. But I still don't know.


Thank you,

norton

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Or http://www.exactaudiocopy.de, technology / offset technology.
Anyway, you don't need offset correction for secure mode ripping.

I have installed AccurateRip. My ripped albums never get a 'match' with other's one. I tought that it was important to check that part of settings (offset). I'm not sure about those settings. I just want to have a 'match' at least 1 time (!?)

norton

So you installed AccurateRip. Now you need three (one, if your offset matches the one in the AccurateRip drive DB) key discs to have it configure itself and the drive settings in EAC.
With 10,000+ CDs on that list, the task should not be impossible.

edit: as Pio noted, you don't need the offset correction - unless you want to take advantage of AccurateRip

Of course! I don't see a problem here.



That is the part I am kinda lost. Sorry, my mother language is French. I have to translate some words, some times.

I'm working on it.



I WANT to take the advantage of AccurateRip. I think (?) What I want, is to find out if my drive is caching audio data or not. As I have ripped 250 CDs already (without the 'Cache audio data' Box checked, in EAC), I want to know if my ripped albums are ok (!?).

So I tought that I could use 'AccurateRip' to be sure that I am ripping ok (with the 'Cache audio data' Box not-checked). I tought that if I could rip some CDs that way, and having 'matches' with other's ripped CDs, this could mean that my drive is NOT caching audio data. That way, I could be confident that my 250 CDs have been ripped OK.


norton

My French is awful so I'll try in English.

• 1. Go here (the key CD list)
• 2. Look at the list
• 3. Find three CDs that are:
  a) on the list and
  b) in your CD collection
• 4. Install AccurateRip database
• 5. Install AccurateRip function
• 6. Start EAC
• 7. Insert the first CD from those three you found
• 8. Read what AccurateRip tells you.

If AccurateRip fails to configure itself with those three CDs, it is because one or more of them are not the same pressings. That means your CDs were not stamped at the same factory from the same mother disc as those in the database. Have another look at your collection and at the key disc list . Keep in mind that not all key discs are listed on that list (the list is already huge at 366 kB!); so you may have to try all your CDs one by one and hope you will find three that work.

Bonne chance!

1. Go here (the key CD list) done
2. Look at the list done
3. Find three CDs that are:
a) on the list and
b) in your CD collection done done
4. Install AccurateRip database done
5. Install AccurateRip function done
6. Start EAC done
7. Insert the first CD from those three you found done
8. Read what AccurateRip tells you. ???

Step 8. =» Am I supposed to see something BEFORE the ripping of the CD, or you are talking about the window that appear at the END of the ripping?

Cause I don't see anything 'before'.


norton

Are you sure that you have AccurateRip correctly installed? You need to copy AccurateRip.dll to the EAC's folder...
I don't have much of an use of AccurateRip, but IIRC it pops-up a window just after inserting a known key-disc.

Only if the CD that you test have a lot of errors (red bars), and EAC corrects all of them ("copy OK").

Keep in mind also that while this method is valid, the opposite is not. Getting a right result with AccurateRip means that the rip is correct, getting a wrong result doesn't mean that it is not correct.

Well... I think, it is correctly installed.
I followed the instructions. AccurateRip.dll is in the EAC's folder. I can see a the AccurateRip logo at the lower right corner of the EAC window.



I have never seen a pop-up window just after inserting a disc. The only moment where I see a window is, after ripping... The AccurateRip Results window appears (always). Always saying the same thing: 'Disc not present in AccurateRip database'


norton

You probably have different pressings of the CDs than those which are included in the AccurateRip database, so there's no use of them for calibration. You must find 3 CDs which will pop-up a window just after inserting them, and they need to give the same offset result. Then AccurateRip should perform its functions as it should (I didn't manage that myself yet...).

If it says after ripping that the disc is not present in the database, doesn't it mean that Accurate rip is properly installed and configured ?

Yes