I'm planning to use EAC to rip my cd collection - about 500 cds. I want to produce two things

1. An image of the CD with a CUE file for it. Probably just an ISO image.

2. mp3s of each track, maybe I'll save the wav files too.


So my question is how can I avoid using EAC to read the disc twice. It seems like I should be able to use EAC to produce #1 and then somehow pull the tracks out of it? One way would be to 'burn' the image to a virtiual drive and then use EAC a second time to create the wave files for each track, which are then sent to an encoder.

Has anyone scripted this somehow?

Any other ways to approach this?

Thanks
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Yes, Tycho has scripted this extremely well IMHO, and it's called REACT. I would recommend using Synthetic Soul's REACT mod instead of the official one, as he has fixed some bugs and added some new interessting features to it.

REACT v2.0 thread :
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....showtopic=50273

REACT wiki Page :
http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=REACT

REACT:Mods page(Synthetic Soul) :
http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=REACT:Mods

I wouldn't recommend storing your images as ISO, it is a poor format to encode from. You have the right idea, go for a lossless image, I use FLAC now, with CUE sheet.

REACT 2.0 is the way to go, from what I understand. I have yet to master REACT, and just mastered EAC. I can now rip to FLAC images with CUE sheets and compare the individual tracks against the AccurateRip database.

To avoid ripping twice... I do it the hillbilly way and import all my CUE sheets into FooBar2000 and convert it to Q2 OGG Vorbis for average listening on my laptop and backup the FLAC images to my external.



EDIT: Damn you Martin, you beat me to it! ;-)

Martin,

Thanks for the pointer to REACT. I've played around with it for a few hours and done some test rips. I still don't see how to avoid the two rips...

So, I've asked essentially the same question on the REACT 2 thread...
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....mp;#entry516333



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