Hi All,

The more this newbie reads, the less I know (I think). Is it possible to rip a cd with EAC, producing individual MP3 track files and a single FLAC of the entire cd, all in a single pass?

I've been trying the website for flacattack/wack, but it seems to be down today. Could I expect either of those to do what I want?

Thanks,

Roger

If you try the mindblowingly amazing Search function , you will find a lot of threads on the subject - here's one: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....showtopic=38828

Do i detect a note of sarcasm?

Both will, I believe. NB: The site still appears to be down.

Another alternative is REACT. Try the search for that one (no website).

Thanks guys,

Jimhaddon:- Well, yes.... but that's ok, I'm always telling people to rtfm, so it doesn't hurt to cop a little back

a_aa:- a very useful link. I'll spend a lot of time trying some of the suggestions in those posts, and following some of the links. At my present level of (non) understanding I obviously still have a thousand questions, but there's one that sticks, and which prompted my original post: In several discussions there seems to be an implicit suggestion that EAC can do what I asked for in the beginning i.e. make a single lossless file plus a set of MP3 track files. But I can't see how EAC, EAC/MAREO, etc can do that as a one-click operation. It seems to me that it needs to be one operation to produce the single lossless file, and then another which uses that file to produce the individual MP3s. Am I missing something...? I'll have a look at flacattack/wack when the site is up, and Ill find out just what REACT is all about. Thanks again.

Synthetic Soul: I commend you for the obvious time and thought that goes into so many of your posts. One or two long, thoughtful replies is one thing - to keep it up takes real commitment. Thank you.

Roger

I just did the same thing you were trying to do by using REACT. This is what I use for my configuration:

Thanks Orbit,

I've just finished digesting the link that a_aa gave, and I haven't downloaded REACT yet, so I can't ask any intelligent questions. But later, yeah, there'll be plenty.

Roger



Edit:

Ok, works well. I just changed the .ini to point to my library and let 'er rip! I left the formatting alone just to make sure that it would do what I thought it would do, so now I can juggle things a little to suit my needs.

One problem (and, of course, it was the very first cd I tried!) (Nana Mouskouri - At Her Very Best) got to within 3 seconds of finishing the EAC rip, then threw an error, and I had to terminate the whole operation. The problem may be that the cd is very long - the .wav file is 813,662,684 bytes. The .cue file is complete. So that brings me to a question: I have that .wav/.cue set, and a couple of others from some other tests that I was doing. Do you know if they could be fed into the REACT process to avoid having to go through the gap-detection/ripping-to-.wav operation? It would probably be nice, because I expect that similar things way well happen again during the course of loading my whole library of CDs.

Thanks again, Orbit

Roger

Okay:

I have one simple requirement - and I have fallen short of the mark because EAC doesnt work on my pc
I have an "AudioArchive" folder on my d: drive

I want to

1) stick in a cd
2) Check the CDDB and prompt for info when missing <auto>
3) Rip it with Burst copy mode since im not convinced the difference will be huge on a clean new legal CD (which I are'll be using) to a single FLAC'd WAV file and a cue file in
\AudioArchive\%Artist\%CD\%Artist-%CDTitle.FLAC.wav with accompanying cue file.

THEN AUTOMATICALLY

4) Rip each track out of that FLAC image into LAme 192kbps CONSTANT bitrate mp3s, and stick it in \AudioArchive\%Artist\%CD\Mp3\%Artist-%Trackname-%Tracknum.mp3
5) Leave me with FLAC image, cue, and HQ mp3 folder - DRM be damned!


I know, Burst Copy can give nasty skips and bad bits but im willing to risk that for the speed increase. All the CDs are purchased legally and are new so they should go ok.

EAC doesnt work properly on my pc - before and after reinstalling - burst copy synch mode, any mode. They all rip - but they rip a totally empty WAV. Everythign else works fine......

I want to use AudioGrabber - it works, real fast, but doesnt allow me to trigger another program to run on the resultant WAV files.

I want to use LAme - I'm not worried about AAC files really, cos my mobile phone does mp3s. It has a 256mb card in - but it doesnt like VBR, and it doesnt like 320kbps.

I'm thinking of trying CDEx with the modified CUE support, using my own custom interface (Im a coder), but since AudioGrabber already has everything there it seems a shame.

Any suggestions?

EAC is the staple fodder for Flacattack, and REACT.

I don't believe MAREO can work with FLAC/WAV and CUE files - it needs to be called for each track to the best of my knowledge.

The process im using right now is:
1) Rip with AG to WAV and cue
2) Make MP3s with Foobar Diskwriter
3) Convert WAV file to FLAC, dleteing original one

Can anyone tell me if what i want is possible without getting my hands dirty in coding.....?

tatatatata

I think WACK will do what you need.

Edit: To clarify: You could use WACK with Audiograbber, if that is your ripper of choice, setting "wack.exe" as your external encoder in the MP3 settings.

Just take a look at the WACK docs, and then amend the EAC command line:

%s %o %d "%a" "%g" "%y" "%m

to use Audiograbber placeholders.

NB: Don't amend the WACK INI to reflect Audiograbber placeholders - just the command line (WACK's placeholder system is the same as EAC, but don't get confused).

I wish I could comment on your EAC problems, but I have no idea what your problem is. I'm sure I've seen a similar report though, it may have been you in a previous thread.

KDE "automagically" does this, when you simply open CD in it.

dBpowerAMP with one of the multi-encoder plugins can encode to any codec you add to the list, at the same time!! (its in the forum)
the multi-processor one can even do it on-the-fly as you rip the cd

not to mention it is pretty and really easy to set up