Hi all

Im very new to EAC and FLAC.. but ive spent almost a day reading. I have set up EAC based on the sticky thread by Eli.

I am having 2 problems I need help with.

1. When i go to the report of "possible errors", after ripping to FLAC, it tells me the times where the problems are, but the options to preview and remove glitches are greyed out. When I just rip to a wav, I can preview, so I am presuming it has something to do with the flac extension.

I did extensive google searches, read the EAC faq and tips but havent been able to come up with anything. Help anyone?


2. When I set the options according to eli's sticky thread, I dont get all the tracks, becuase of the option to "skip on read errors". I thought the whole idea was to get to the end of the process, then preview the "possible errors" and determine if they are liveable. But when you tell it to skip when it encounters an error it does just that, so you never get a 'complete' file... it just gives up. What am I missing here?

3. (i know i said two things )
is a sync error more of a problem than a read error? Like the read errors dont actually manifest as audible... but I wonder if syn error is a bigger mistake, and i should give up on the file?

Thanks in advance... Ive spent hours trying to get things set up to start archiving, but I am stuck on these two points.

As for your first problem, I don't think it has anything to with FLAC. I notice the same thing anytime I encode the file. The only way I have been able to preview a track's "possible errors" to determine if they are within tolerable limits was to rip to WAV

So I guess the way to go about it then it to rip to wav, then compress to flac... seems like this will take longer, and be more annoying (given that I plan on archiving over 100cds). Also, how do the wav files manage to keep the song/artist/album info .. i thought wavs culdnt hold that data. So if I do a 2 step process (rip to wav, encode to flac) (yes I realize this is what ripping straight to mp3 does) am I going to be discarding the album/artist/track data?

I am also still very curious as to the answer to "point #2" from my original post if anyone cares to enlighten me

Cheers

WAV files do not hold meta data. What you can do, though, is save them in a directory structure (say: Genre\Artist\[Year] Album\[Track] Title)

Example: Easy Listening\Tony Bennett\[2006] Duets\[06] Rags to Riches

When you compress them to FLAC, make sure you mirror the directory structure. From that, you can use a program like Tag & Rename to write tags based on the filename. Just tell the application the file name mask.

Your second point, I assume, is telling EAC to skip extraction on read errors. I usually do not configure EAC to skip extraction on read errors. I wait for EAC to complete the process. Sometimes errors are not audible. And in the case that read and/or sync errors do occur, I either try another drive, use burst test and copy, or in the worse case scenerio, replace the disc.