I'm an Exact Audio Copy (EAC) novice.

Lately I had a .cue sheet that even Burrrn could not handle. I suspect it was one of those non-compliant EAC created cue sheets that Burrrn normally handles no problem. Anyhow I burned it OK with EAC. Related to this, foobar nolonger can play EAC non-compliant .cue sheets properly.

Anyhow these two scenarios got me thinking and experimenting with EAC.

I think the use of EAC with APE is pretty commmon. What about FLAC?

What I normally do is edit a .cue sheet and replace any reference to .wav" wave with
.ape" wave
or
.flac" wave

as the case may be and use Burrrn to burn the CD without decompressing first. Works fine for me with Burrrn. I assume EAC could do the same thing.

So I have this .cue sheet that originally said .wav" wave for each track but I did my Notepad thing and pointed it to the .flac files to avoid the manual decompression step.

However when I drag the edited .cue sheet into EAC it chokes on line six and says...

"Error in Cue sheet line 6 file type is not supported"

REM DATE 1993
REM DISCID E50BCxx0
REM COMMENT "ExactAudioCopy v0.95b3"
PERFORMER "Joe Blow"
TITLE "Such & Such"
FILE "01 - Our First Song.flac" WAVE
TRACK 01 AUDIO
TITLE "Our First Song"
PERFORMER "Joe Blow"
PREGAP 00:00:32
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 02 AUDIO
TITLE "Our Second Song"
PERFORMER "Joe Blow"
INDEX 00 03:12:58
FILE "02 - Our Second Song.flac" WAVE

Well line 6 is FILE "01 - Our First Song.flac" WAVE

I thought maybe I don't have EAC setup to do FLAC yet. I went to

http://users.pandora.be/satcp/eac-qs-en.htm#flac

Obviously EAC can work with FLAC in some manner. I did what it said and still get the error.

Maybe EAC is capable of ripping a CD & compressing it to .FLAC and generating a .cue sheet like the one I have before I edited it (points to .wav" wave not to .flac" wave) that can be used with the flacfiles AFTER they are decompressed back to .wav files.

Is this the case?

Does EAC not burn .FLAC files on the fly? What about .ape files?

Yes.


No; no.

EAC only supports WAV and MP3 files for working with directly.

directjj, I wrote a program called AutoFLAC that helps automate burning back ripped FLAC images (but not APE). You can read more about it here: www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=45496

I'm not trying to hawk my own program, but a large reason I wrote it was to make this easier. Just want to share it with others that have the same need.