Go watch TV or something while you wait.ĭo not use C2, even if EAC thinks you can. Yes, the rips take a bit longer with that setting enabled. Not only will it stop you from having to have each of your uploads rescored by hand, but it doesn't affect the audio quality at all. If it can't, don't.Įven if your drive doesn't cache audio, just do us a favor and leave that checked. If your drive can use it, checkmark the setting (most modern drives have Accurate Stream). The only feature detection that actually matters is Accurate Stream. Start by hitting "Detect Read Features.". If you need track numbers to go into triple digits for some reason, use %tracknr3% instead.Ĭheck 'Use Various Artists Naming Scheme' and use : %tracknr2% - %artist% - %title% Don't replace spaces by underscores. %title% if you prefer periods instead of dashes in the filenames. The only difference acceptable here would be perhaps %tracknr2%. If rip queueing works for you (it does for me), feel free to leave it enabled.įriends don't let friends normalize their EAC rips. It should have no bearing on the rip quality. Note that in tests run by punkmeup, disabling the queue of external compressors in the background fixed an issue where EAC was generating WAV files instead of FLAC, so I've made that a required option. It doesn't take very long compared to the track extraction anyway. I wouldn't recommend using more than 1 compressor thread even if you have a multicore computer. Other than that, these settings are pretty much ideal. If your drive is capable of reading UPC/ISRC codes and CD-Text (you can only really figure this out by trial and error), you're welcome to keep the top two options checked. This will let you keep EAC's language as your native one, but write the log file in English The "Create log files always in english language" is very important for our international users. I'd recommend using Alternate CD play routines and disabling autostart though. These settings are pretty much all optional and self explanatory. Locking the drive tray during extraction isn't a bad idea though. The rest is optional, choose as you will. If you're using an older version of EAC, make sure "No use of null samples for CRC calculations is UNCHECKED. Make sure you set the green highlighted settings as shown. Any tabs not pictured are completely optional settings, or are irrelevant to ripping. Once again, if you have an older version of EAC or dBpoweramp installed, it's likely AccurateRip was already configured, and this may not appear.Īll of the options dialogs can be found from the EAC menu at the top of the screen. If you have an older version of EAC or dBpoweramp installed, it's likely AccurateRip was already configured, and this may not appear. You'll see a window like the one below appear. Next, put a popular CD into your drive, preferably not one that was recently released (a few months old at least). When you first start EAC, you'll see a screen like this one. GD3 is only useful if you want to pay for metadata results. FLAC will be useful as well if you don't have it separately installed. Make sure you install AccurateRip, CDRDAO, CTDB, and freedb as a bare minimum. This is meant to be a no-frills guide with little extra info.Įventually you'll get to a screen like this. Anything orange is required but depends on your drive. This guide was made for EAC version 1.0 beta 3 and above and will not completely work with earlier versions.Īnything with a green outline around it is a required setting. Thanks to those diligent archivists who wrote the original. But I highly suspect they're required on the site for a good reason. When the guide makes reference to "required" settings it's talking about for submission to the tracker where this guide comes from - not that it's required to actually work. I didn't write it but after seeing some posts about ripping music collections here I wanted to share it in the hopes that everyone's music rips will be of a higher quality than they would be otherwise.
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