Hi,

I wonder if some GOOD & EASY encoding soft exists... the less you use the mouse or keyboard, the more you enjoy life

1. get the cd out of the cd case
2. insert the cd into the drive
3. the prog looks for tags automatically, and rip it (lame) into the same location, but in the right folder
4. when ripping is over, the drive opens automatically

I experimented EAC but it's too much time spend while itunes doesn't produce accurate rips and doesn't use lame.

Hi Zorba,

Maybe you want to check out CDex? Wiki

It's fairly straightforward to use w/ Lame and requires minimal effort to configure & get tags from freedb (you may however want to replace the lame.dll that comes with the installer with one more up-to-date). It uses cdparanoia to produce accurate rips, which isn't quite as robust as EAC but good enough for many people.

BTW I use EAC, and while it does have a learning curve (and takes a little effort to configure properly), ripping with it is as easy as the steps you describe.

thanks,

Cdex was my first software some years ago...

what I would like is something very close to a toaster, I mean you insert bread and when it is toasted, the slice is out ...thus, it allows time to do something else...what you have to do is to insert other piece of bread into the toaster....

I second that. Just use a good walk-through for eac and setting it up really isn't that bad. Once that's done ripping couldn't be easier.

with EAC, after inserting CD, I have to press alt+g to get tags, then waiting for connection to freedb, then press "MP3", then select destination folder, create new, ....after ripping (biiiiiip), press OK twice (.srv) then press "open"...boring tasks.......can't focus on other thing such as reading HA forums for instance

I like the idea of being able to pop a cd in to the drive, close it, walk away, watch tv, whatever. When the ripping is done the tray opens, I can then walk over, swap discs and get back to what I was doing without having to turn on the monitor and interact with the program. That's what I loved about Itunes, unfortunately the rip quality was garbage(I had several cd's with terrible sounding errors).

Amen.

If you want ID tags that are in any way accurate and consistent then you'll never get away with no interaction with the PC.

Like so many things in life there's no easy way if you want it doing right.

I use audiograbber and that's about as easy as it gets in my experience.

Having configured EAC properly I have to do none of those things. My ripping goes like this:

1. Insert CD
2. Let EAC retrieve tags from freedb (automatically)
3. Select Action >Test & Copy Selected Tracks > Compressed... (by default it selects all tracks).
4. Wait 3-6 minutes & presto, secure rips encoded w/ Lame.

I'm not sure how much easier you're looking for it to get, but AFAIK if you want secure ripping w/ Lame this is it.

Essential Ripping Guide for EAC
HA Wiki: EAC & Lame

You can lead a horse to water...

At least in itunes 6, you can activate secure ripping, and if you rip at 160 / VBR, I doubt that you'll hear a difference to the original (since people didn't hear one at 128...)

How you manage to find EAC complicated/time requiring is beyond me. Install it, spend 5 minutes to configure it, and after that it will do excactly what you want. Insert a disc, retrieve tags, and hit the "MP3"-button to start the process of reading and encoding.

I only think it could be easier to deal with...i.e the toaster symptom...because I've tested to rip with itunes

I rip cds almost every days since a few months: I'm a bit fed up ripping with EAC, it was ok with the first cds but now I think it to be boring

I'm gonna check if I can make EAC work for me for
- avoiding to press OK to rip
- avoiding to create and rename folder
- avoiding to press OK after ripping
- avoiding to press OK after creating a .txt
- avoiding to press "open" to let that damn cd out

Look up autoit. You can make a program (simply) to manage your EAC actions for you.

REACT could help there.
"EAC options" > "General" tab > "Eject CD after extraction finished"

Slightly OT, but does the "Use error correction when reading audio CDs" option in iTunes = secure ripping? I have my doubts after too many glitchy files ripped with iTunes (leading me to ditch it altogether), plus I can't imagine it letting you know if errors occured.

Well.. I think it's "more secure", eg, maybe it re-reads every sector twice. I really don't know, as I don't see an advantage to doing that.

Turning the "Use error correction when reading audio CDs" option on does make the extraction slower so I guess that it does something different, also scince the extraction goes slower it may prevent some errors during the encoding. These are guesses tho.

There are quite a number of programs written to automate doing whatever you want from EAC, including even setting up and running other programs like mp3gain. The best of them is REACT (Mentioned above) but there are others such as MAREO (Much easier to learn), Batrun (Better integration with Tangerine's great tools), and WACK.

As well as a couple that automate non-eac tasks independantly such as Catwalk, Case's Sweep, and LameGain.

Good Luck.