Hi folks,

My first post. Bought an X5 and want to use FLAc files. I downloaded EAC today and ent to the FLAC website and downloaded version 112a to my desktop. Before the download, they ask if you want any WinAmp plugins or WinAMp cleanup. I unchecked those boxes as I don't have WinAmp and don't want it. So I downloaded FLAC and set up EAC to use this for compression. However, when I rip, the files are not being compressed but instead are saved as .wav files. After ripping, I get 3 messages:

The first asks if I want to download WinAMp as it's not on my computer. i click No.

The second lets me know that Nero is a cd burning software and I can download it if I like. My oly option on this to click OK.

The 3rd asks me to uninstall FLAC as a previous version has already been intalled on my computer.

I actually tried uninstalling and re-installing but the same problem occurs.

Does anybody know what is going on here? Any help would be appreciated.

TIA,
Greg

Here's a nice little tutorial I used to get Monkey's Audio and FLAC working with EAC:
HERE
It explains everything nicely and gives you some recommended settings and stuff.

Hope it helps!

It sounds to me that EAC is pointed to the flac installer, rather than the flac executable

In EAC, go to File, Compression Options, External Compression

tick "Use external compressor"

Parameter passing scheme is "User Defined Encoder"
File Extension is .flac

Then click on browse and select flac.exe (probably in flac in program files), not flac112a.exe

As command line, I use

8 %s -T title="%t" -T artist="%a" -T date="%Y" -T genre="%m" -T album="%g" -T tracknumber="%n" -V

I'm not sure if all this is right, but it works for me.