For MacOSX users who stumbled on this video, don't worry! You can rip your CDs using XLD instead. I made a guide for that here: ua-cam.com/video/fZLC90A0nOM/v-deo.html
@@nickyxie5035 Actions -> Test & Copy Selected Tracks -> Uncompressed. I would follow the settings in the video except for the compression tab as that only pertains to flac.
@@nickyxie5035 secure mode reads each sector at least twice, more if theres any damage. Test and copy rips the cd twice. A test rip and a copy rip to match the crc values together so you know that the rip was done accurately. This makes rips take 2-4x as long as using burst mode (inaccurate, ignores errors) and just copy (only rips 1 copy, cant match crcs)
Just got around to breaking out my CD collection and have ripped about 8 CDs so far. This was a life saver. Great detail and so far my rips have been perfect. Another 300 or so and I’ll be done and ready to pass on my collection to my son. Really appreciate the time spent on this.
By using the recommended settings in the video. How long is it taking you to rip each CD in "Secure mode"? Mine wants to take an hour and a half. Though if I change the one setting to "Burst mode", then it takes 30 minutes.
@@問答無用-t2y However, If the CD is in accurateRip database and You get accuracy confirmation after Burst Mode you are safe - you rip is perfect. If the CD is not in the databse or you don't get perfect rip confirmation from it - you have to use Secure Mode.
As an physical media collector, and some one who is still buying cds from new bands, I thank you! I just descovered EAC after years of doing fast simple rips with Sound Forge. I am a quality nerd when it comes to video and audio, and this helped me out a lot. Going to be ripping all my CDs into uncompressed WAV files with EAC. Thanks!
13:40 for people who installed somewhere other then the default spot here's a easy way to find the path just navigate to where you installed it and find flac.exe hit shift while right clicking and click "copy file path" then paste it ( just make sure to remove the quotes)
How would I know what directory to store something I haven't even see before. Save WHAT? Save it to Where, a FOLDER? I put stuff in folders but that is NOT a directory. I don't even know what this means.
@@KitsuneNoNatsu Do this: copy the description of this video and paste it in the Windows Notepad (if you do not use Windows, use the notepad of your O.S.), because it will erase the formatation, then copy it from notepad and paste it on the EAC blank spaces. Try it. I think it will work. This was what I've done and worked very well!
Hello, I got a Sony walkman and ripped a few cds using Sony Media Center. Should I start over using this EAC? I compared songs ripped with Sony Media Center to few songs I ripped with EAC and they (flacs) were same kb vbr. Is the quality better with EAC? Should I start over? Thank you
Why did my comment I just posted disappear? I was saying I have a 40yr old CD (MJ - Thriller) that won’t rip not even at 0.1x speed. I think it’s a foreign pressing and someone told me about offset, but have no idea how to do it. Something about lead in? Or try burst mode. Cd looks new and I’m surprised it won’t work. It plays fine in a CD player but when it spins it makes a bit of noise. What would you suggest? Thank you
Enabling accuraterip (the first step in the video) determines your offset. Lead in/lead out is a setting you can enable in your Drive Settings, it only works with certain drives and the ones it doesnt work with, it causes your rips to get a suspicious position error on the last track of every disc you rip. You can try enabling it but it probably wont make the copy rip. If you go into drive settings and select either burst mode or paranoia mode, you will be able to rip the disc because neither has error correction. Any problems that eac was trying to correct will be skipped over, which usually allows you to rip the disc. Just keep in mind, doing this will cause parts of your rip to have skips, clicks and distortion assuming you encounter errors (which it sounds like you will). Damaged discs can play in cd players because the cd player is built to correct errors whereas cd drives are not. It being a foreign pressing doesnt matter for ripping, but if its genuinely 40 years old it might have disc rot which would make it, or at least parts of it unrippable. If the disc has no visible damage you could try other drives to see if one will rip it, but the "just try other drives" option is usually not available to anyone who isnt a serious fanatic with a crate of extra drives at their disposal
Choose "copy selected range" as opposed to "test and copy selected tracks" (you could use test and copy on the selected range instead, but thats a waste of time if youre not going for a "perfect" rip
I've been trying to find a tutorial like this for a while. This is almost exactly what I needed. I've watched it and taken lots of notes. But there are still some pretty basic things that I don't understand or know how to do. Like how to set up a filing system. How to locate the filing system. Etc. But thanks for the great tutorial.
Thank you so so much!!!! I set this up a couple years ago but just reinstalled windows so had to redo the whole thing haha, was very happy to find this video again
Just discovered EAC as a tool to rip CDs to FLAC format and this tutorial was quite simply excellent! Thank you so much for taking the trouble to share your knowledge!!
Why's it important to enable drive caching? EAC itself states that the option can cause unnecessary risk to the rip quality, and it takes substantially longer for the rip to complete.
The intention of this guide is to provide people with the information needed to receive a log file that scores 100% as well as a perfect copy. The log file is scored based on the settings used/not used and, because it does not take into account each specific drive model and whether they can handle c2 error correction correctly or whether they can make use of the cached data it will indiscriminately score the log with deductions if C2 Error correction is enabled and if Caches audio data is disabled. So, doesn't matter what the setting does in the end, if you want a 100% log you have to leave it enabled. As for the perfect rip aspect. This does not harm the rip in any way to leave on if your drive doesn't make use of it. So, because it's a required setting when going for a 100% log and because it can't make your perfect rip not perfect I am saying to have it enabled. You're welcome to leave it off if you're worried. I would encourage you to look for more information regarding it being damaging to your drive. I don't believe it is. Also, was the source of this information: wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=EAC_Drive_Options this link? It's 13 years old and a public wiki, it's not indicative of EACs actual stance. Edit: I Inquired further, and there are no threads in any private music communities expressing concern over this particular setting, whether you believe that or feel its sufficient to enable it is up to you.
To quote a written EAC guide "If you want to figure out whether your drive needs "Overread into Lead-in and Lead-Out" checked, you can check by temporarily unchecking "Use AccurateRip with this drive". Stick a CD in the drive and hit "Detect read sample offset correction...". If you're just doing this for the Overread, see below: ptpimg.me/df4vwi.png Check "Overread Lead-In and Lead-Out" only if the test result says that your drive can overread from both the Lead-In and Lead-Out, or if it says Lead-Out and your offset correction is positive, or if it says Lead-In and your offset correction is negative. Otherwise disable (uncheck) it." Once you've figured out if your drive is capable you'd want to re-enable 'use AccurateRip with this drive' btw.
Thank you, really helpful. The Character Replacements function caused big problems. They stopped the resulting files from being recognised by LMS - Logitech Media Studio. A suggested set-up for practical everyday use rather than perfect use, and for mp3 would be great also. Thanks again.
Hi, the character replacements are optional as per the video. They are however, supported by all modern music players, windows, Mac and Linux as well as iOS/Android Devices. Sorry to say but Logitech Media Studio is shit if it can't handle them, and they were chosen for practical everyday use, not for being 'perfect'. The most important factor in using character replacements is that they work on windows. This is why the defaults are hyphens and x's, precisely because they work on windows. The replacements I listed also work on windows, which makes them as practical as they will ever be. Secondly, don't use EAC if you wish to rip MP3s, the entire point of using EAC is for bit perfect quality, you're going through more effort / taking longer to rip the files to do so. If you choose to rip MP3 with EAC you will be taking at the very least 2x longer than any other program to rip the MP3 files which cannot be perfect because they are mp3 to begin with. In spite of this, there IS a section in the written guide for users who wish to rip with MP3. docs.google.com/document/d/1b1JJsuZj2TdiXs--XDvuKdhFUdKCdB_1qrmOMGkyveg/edit?usp=sharing The only differences between the two setups is changing the file path in external compression options to mp3.exe, the file extension to .mp3 and the command-line to either a MP3 V0 or MP3 320 suitable command-line (or a lesser format if you feel so inclined) Again, this is covered in the written guide should you want to waste your time ripping MP3s with EAC, specifically in the "External Compression" section.
Novice Here. Great Tutorial - Thank You. I have EAC software installed (I really like it) and can Rip/Burn without problems. However my question is: Can I Rip WAV files for a CD and save these to a memory stick so they can be played as a whole album (with gaps) on an external device..........or do I need another program for this? Many Thanks In Advance.
You'd select actions -> test & copy selected range -> uncompressed There's probably no point in using test & copy for this, so if you want it to go 2x faster just select "copy selected range" then pick uncompressed. Be aware WAV files don't retain tags the same way FLAC files do. External devices should be able to FLAC files and most hardware you'd be playing it on does to. So, unless yours can't I would stick with FLAC.
Its a damn shame you have so few subs. A good quality voiceover, and a full guide to get up and running, for most. Found this video looking for how to use this program, as I had no clue how to start the process yet alone get my disc to show up, and solved every problem I had and got it set up in a way that is performing perfectly. I had used a trial version of db something, which produced only corrupted tracks that no program could recognize, and feared I would spend considerable time finding a replacement that at least got that far. I already have a great DVD ripper that let me put my collection on my media server, but bought my first CD a bit ago and it wasn't able to rip CDs. Looking to get all the songs I tend to listen to on UA-cam, as it is ad free music I will own and could listen to anywhere.
dBpoweramp is probably fine, it might just be the flac binary it ships with, or that you already had that is causing the corrupt tracks. There is known issues with some earlier versions of FLAC that can cause tracks to be corrupt. If you attempt to rip uncompressed wav files instead, they'd probably be fine. This issue also affects EAC tbh, and any other ripping software, since it is the conversion from wav to flac that is causing it. Not worried about subs lol, I just made this for my friends ^^
Does this appear ok? This was from ripping a single track- Exact Audio Copy V1.6 from 23. October 2020 EAC extraction logfile from 2. March 2024, 21:08 Wings / Wings at the Speed of Sound Used drive : HL-DT-STDVDRAM GP65NB60 Adapter: 1 ID: 0 Read mode : Secure Utilize accurate stream : Yes Defeat audio cache : Yes Make use of C2 pointers : No Read offset correction : 6 Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : Yes Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000 Gap handling : Appended to previous track Used output format : User Defined Encoder Selected bitrate : 128 kBit/s Quality : High Add ID3 tag : No Pre-gap length 0:00:01.65 Peak level 99.3 % Extraction speed 1.6 X Track quality 99.9 % Test CRC 177E98F6 Copy CRC 177E98F6 Accurately ripped (confidence 200) [26F2CD86] (AR v2) Copy OK All tracks accurately ripped No errors occurred End of status report
Whenever I rip a cd with the software with all the information. The info (excluding the file name) for the contributing artist and album name doesn’t show up after the cd is done ripping to my computer (when I click on the folder). Is this normal, or how can I fix it?
If you open your files up in a music player, tag editing software or even by inspecting them and opening preferences, are the tags present? If yes, then it's a file explorer issue. If no, then it's the "Compression" settings in EAC, in particular "External Compressor" tab, where I note pasting in the custom args, make sure this has been correctly copy and pasted. UA-cam started translating descriptions automatically so it might have fucked up the parameters. As for file explorer: If you're on Windows 7 it's normal because Win7 doesn't officially support reading FLAC metadata in file explorer. You have to use a third party app to add that functionality. If you're on windows 8+ and this is happening, chances are that either your file explorer view is incorrectly setup, possibly for "general" view as opposed to detailed view or for music files. Alternatively, if you embed cover art larger than approximately 2MiB to the files a process in file explorer that reads the metadata will overflow due to the padding size and crash, no longer rendering tags in the Title, Artist, Album etc fields. Only way to fix this in particular would be to embed smaller images and for existing rips with huge embeds you'd have to both de-embed the artwork and remove the excess padding.
Hey, friend, can you help me, please? The AccurateRip pop-up is not showing with any disc, I tried a lot of discs, including the most popular ones. I don't know if it is because I had EAC installed before. I deleted the program and installed it again (maybe there's a residual cache file somewhere?)
EAC saves the drive's offset (The thing you're setting up by enabling AccurateRip) as a registry key. Deleting EAC doesn't remove the registry key, and if you by chance use(d) dBpoweramp, they share the same registry key so it's possible that AccurateRip has already been enabled. To confirm whether this is the case, go to "Drive Settings" (top left corner) then "Offset/Speed" and if the top half of the tab is greyed out + you are able to enable the "Enable accuraterip with this drive" button, then you already have accuraterip enabled and you can skip that step. Alternatively, maybe you enabled beginner mode which would cause you to be unable to activate accuraterip. Go to EAC Options > Tools then at the bottom make sure that beginner mode isn't enabled. Only other reasons for accuraterip to not pop up despite trying many CDs would be because either EAC doesn't have access to the internet, or the PC itself doesn't have access to the internet or; the discs are somehow all too badly damaged and EAC can't read any of them (though this is very unlikely)
@@sharky1112 thank you very much for your reply. I've figured out that I already had the AccurateRip configured from my previous EAC installation. By the way, thanks for this video and the text guide. It's awesome that you had so much work to help other people.
Thanks man! This is a great guide! I wanted to note that I can't get Asian text to write onto the cuesheet following your steps. No matter what there's no option for the cuesheet to encode in UTF-8 or UTF-16 as it will always encode the sheet in ANSII. Any other work around like exporting to CDPlayer.ini is useless as I want the metadata to be transferred from EAC to each individual tracks. Now I have to create my own cuesheet in UTF-16, transfer the metadata from the ANSI to it then manually input the tags myself which is what I did not want sigh.. Is there a way to just encode the entire CD as one single .wav or .flac file with a cuesheet? I haven't figured it out. I did it long ago I believe but it's been years.
In order to get cuesheets to output in another encoding you'll need to change your locale. Being on any of the english locales will output ANSI so, change to japanese and you'll get shift-jis encoded cues instead which handles unicode characters. Keep in mind that EAC preserves the encoding of metadata submitted to the metadata provider so once and a while you'll import metadata and the cuesheet will output in some non-shift-jis format. As far as sharing these rips goes - the majority of peoples cuesheets are completely broken for unicode characters/non-latin characters and there's really no problem. The cuesheet is already "broken" when created because you're converting your files to FLAC. It only functions when the files are .wav so - people really don't look at the tags within the cuesheet, the only concern is that it retains the gaps if ever someone really wants to burn the files back to CD. When burning back to CD you'd modify the tags within the cuesheet yourself to your liking. This is to say, you can safely ignore your cuesheets tags when ripping if you're not personally burning the files back to CD. As for how to rip a single file, you choose range rip. Actions -> Copy selected range (iirc, don't have the program open rn to confirm) If you're going to rip it ""incorrectly""" per private tracker standards you may as well also not use "Test & Copy" as that will slow down the rip by 2x and, possibly change your rip settings from "Secure Mode" to "Burst Mode" to reduce your time ripping by another 2x.
The method is irrelevent if youre using a lossy codec. Your music player likely has a built in function for ripping cds, just use that. Pristine accurate ripping and mp3 isnt possible lol
Nothing shown in my video can mistakenly do this. Retail CDs also can't be written over in this way. I don't know what you did, but it took multiple mistakes to pull off
Because EAC doesn't embed album art and presumably your music player doesn't recognize a 'cover.jpg' in the folder (or whatever the image is called) as being the cover art for all the files.
@@jespero93 Might happen if the disc is damaged, though you can try going into the gap detection settings then changing the detection method from whatever letter its curerntly on (A/B/C) to a different one, and then also from "Accurate" to "Secure" or vise versa. Doing so might allow it to work.
My Extraction options don't include the tick off boxes "Fill up missing offset samples with silence" or "Synchronize between tracks" did I miss something?
Go to EAC Options -> Tools and then disable the "activate beginner mode, disable all advanced features" setting you have enabled. It will unhide the advanced settings (those two options and many others)
very good video for a newbie. What i do find funny tho is the fact it took me longer to rip a 40min cd album than a 1hr+ blu ray that is several gbs bigger. wtf 😂
They are two completely different processes, extracting the video off of a BD is also going to be much quicker than doing a rip of the full BD. (Not sure which you're doing in this case) Though, that said - the main reason why EAC takes so long is due to two specific settings: Test & Copy which rips the CD twice, producing two seperate CRC values, the point of this setting is to verify that between two different rips, the audio EAC extracted was identical, if the data wasn't identical there'd be a "CRC Mismatch" (when the Test CRC and Copy CRC don't match) which would mean that something's off with the rip, or specific tracks in the rip. Secure Mode reads each sector of your disc twice. Then, if there is any trouble reading a specific section of the disc - it will re-read those sectors multiple times until it's able to pull all of the data (this is error correction - that thing where the blocks light up red in EAC's ripping ETA window) so at minimum this takes 2x as long to rip a CD as oppose to something that only reads the sectors once, and if any error correction needs to be applied it will take much longer to finish the rip. So TL;DR - Two settings meant to make your rip more accurate / verify that the rip was done accurately cause you to rip the CD 2 times and read the data on the disc ~4 times. If you did away with error correction, cached audio, split tracks, compressing files and test & copy you could get EAC to rip discs in ~10 minutes or so. But the end result would not be very accurate.
The other thing about logs and cue sheets is that they can be used by databases such as MusicBrainz to determine accurate Disc ID's, and even assign ISRC's to tracks on a CD and thus be able to link the same recordings (typically songs) across different albums. In general their information is good to have for any sort of database editing, on different fronts. Submitting the log also allows for AcoustID retrieval.
They use the same database so I don't see how one can find the artwork while the other can't. Either way, neither pulls high res artwork so I would personally avoid using the cover art lookup and just get high quality art myself during the 1-2 hour downtime during the ripping process.
Are there any real drawbacks just copying instead of testing and copying? When I rip a 10 track cd it’s around 20 minutes just copying but with testing and copying it takes around 50 minutes for the same cd to rip
Test and copy rips the cd twice, secure mode reads each sector of the cd twice at minimum, so basically these two settings make your rip take 4 to 6 times as long as it could when used together. The only drawback to using burst mode over secure is that if there is an error it will skip over it which translates to skips or staric or distortion in specific parts of a track, its quite uncommon to get errors on well taken care of cds tho. As for using just copy, you just wont know if the rip you did would consistently output the same files. Does inconsistent outputs between two rips translate to audibly different files? Sometimes, but not always. TLDR: you can use burst mode instead of secure and just copy if you want to speed things up considerably. Only drawback is not knowing if/when errors occur. But these errors wont happen very often on well taken care of cds. For what its worth, this video was made with the explicit purpose of showing how to rip a perfect copy, but it doesnt mean it would be bad not to, the rips will sound the same when no errors are present.
Thank you for an awesome instructional vid! I have an issue though. I want to rip a live CD into one file which displays each track name as it plays. Is this possible? Thank you!
Depends, you are able to perform a range rip which will rip the entire CD into a single file. The accompanying cuesheet you create will then split the files into individual tracks within your music player. Whatever you're using needs to support the use of cuesheets and, given you are essentially just splitting the range rip into individual tracks within the music player it would be the same thing as just ripping individual tracks imo. To do a range rip, Action -> copy range then, for the cue Action -> create cue sheet -> pick the one relating to range rips, i forget what its called.
Try downloading the latest version of flac from their official site (iirc its ver 1.4.4) then saving it somewhere youre sure eac has permission to access. Then go to your compression tab and change the location of your flac.exe to that new location. My assumption is either you dont have permission to access flac, your location is only pointing to the folder flac.exe is located and not directly to flac.exe, or.. Youre ripping to a network drive like your NAS or something, and it doesnt have a letter mapped to it which is confusing the compressor. You can map your network drive so that it can. Also, i guess worth mentioning that UA-cam auto translates the description of videos now so its possible the command line encoder is messed up if youre not an english speaker. You can try to copy it from within my google docs guide instead
@@sharky1112 I just set up EAC again on a new PC and got this error only on 2 tracks of the first CD I ripped, never happened to me before (using your tutorial). I do now rip to a new drive with an assigned letter tho which is a difference for sure. I know this is just an assumption game we are playing but I have it pointing to the correct flac.exe and my youtube doesn't try to translate the description either. Thought if permissions were messed up it would always fail or am I wrong on that? Either way I am going to try and download that flac version and try again!
@@warlordwossman5722 If it's only on two tracks, I imagine it's actually a "file creation error" which occurs when there is an invalid character within the track name(s). Check and see if they contain any invisible characters or large amounts of empty space either at the front or end of the track. This sort of thing happens when you copy the tracklist from a database site like discogs that uses a page left invisible character to format their text
@@sharky1112 strangely enough I only did those 2 tracks again and it just worked without any changes. Tagged the CD with copied titles from metal archives so no excessive amount of spaces or anything. But thank you anyways for all the help.
How can I manually set the cd cover art? I just want to add a jpg or jpeg as the cd cover but dragging the image or right clicking the box doesn't allow for adding an image, it's grayed out.
This is due to Windows being terrible. Your windows explorer has lower permissions than EAC does which forbids you from dragging images into EAC from windows explorer. There is a solution, and I will write it below but I would highly recommend just putting the cover.jpg into the folder you are ripping to. When you attach it on EAC all it does is go into the folder so just skip the middleman and put it there yourself. As for the solution, you will need to run a program with a context menu allowing you to access your files in administrator mode to give you the same permission elevation as EAC. Then, open the context menu and search for the cover art you want to put in EAC. Once found, drag it from this open context menu into EAC. Not worth it, right?
This is such a good tutorial! I had no prior knowledge of ripping CDs, but bought some of my favorites because I wanted high-quality files to sample in my music production, and despite having absolutely no prior knowledge, I got it all to work first try! I really love when tutorials are this structured and easy to follow. The only minor, and I mean minor, criticism that I have, is that I did have to Google how to find the flac.exe file. I think that was a little bit unclear, but besides that, absolutely fantastic tutorial. And besides, such a minor thing in a tutorial like this is still really great. Good stuff! :) Excited to rip more CDs now!
Thank you Sharky for the guide. Could you tell me what percentage of accuracy from accurate rip should be expected in the log file to know you have a perfect or near perfect copy of your Flacs?
Accuraterips only real purpose is to set your drives offset value for you. I assume by percentage you are looking at the "track quality" value under each track in the log? The value here only indicates the percentage of error correction that was applied to the track during the ripping process. 100% means none, 99.9% means 0.01% error correction was applied. Error correction being applied doesnt indicate it isnt perfect and in many cases will be unavoidable, so this value should be ignored. Your log file will let you know when errors are present in the ripping process. These errors indicate the rip is not perfect. If there are none then it is reasonable to assume it is as close to perfect as it can be. The errors are "timing problem(s)" "suspicious position(s)" or, the test CRC and copy CRC values do not match (called a CRC mismatch) and these errors tend to appear when EAC displays "read/sync error" during the ripping process
Hello Sharky, just a quick recognition for the professionalism of your guides, both in Video and written versions. As part of the community a big Thank You!!!
Unfortunately, yes. If you go into drive options -> drive, then enable "spin up drive before extraction" it may speed things up as many drives cannot reach their full potential without it. Secure mode reads each sector at minimum twice (in other words rips the CD twice) and more times if it encounters data it can't read. Test & Copy creates a test rip, calculates the CRC32 value of the wav files, deletes the files then creates a second copy - the copy you end up with after the rip and does the same again. The above two settings are essentially making you rip your CD at least 4 times, if not more. You have ways to speed the process up at risk of errors, if you just want a listenable copy and don't intend to share them anywhere you could change to "burst mode" and only use "copy rip" instead of "test & copy selected tracks" but you may encounter audible errors if the CD is damaged or just can't be read on first passthrough. I will note that if you have a significant amount of CDs to rip, like hundreds - and you need 100% logs so test & copy and secure mode are required for you and you have an external cd drive - I would consider using a virtual machine to run macos 10.13, installing XLD and using XLD to rip your CDs instead. XLD is on average 52% faster than EAC from some tests I ran and had others help with. EAC sucks ass ;-;
why does all software have to be so over complicated these days, all I want to do is put a CD in and rip it with artwork and titles, is this too much to ask?
Most ripping software can do this and always has been able to do this. You chose a video for creating 100% logs and ripping perfect flac copies it's overly complicated for that reason alone.
The accuraterip configure pop up never showed, but the logo pops up on the bottom right corner when I popped a cd in. Does that mean it is still activated?
Dont think so, but you can confirm by going to drive options -> offset/speed and looking to see if the top half of this tab is greyed out, and whether or not you can enable "use accuraterip with this drive" , if its not greyed out/you cant then it isnt setup
Very helpful. Haven't managed to get the AccurateRip to display yet, so followed the rest of the instructions. After watching the clip used the written guide you created, thank you very much!
This kept happening to me as well. I had uninstalled and reinstalled multiple times. Then I tried keeping the GD3 Metadata plugin in the original set up, and then finally got the AccurateRip to pop up! I don't know if this will help but it might be worth a shot
I'm using EAC V1.6 Firstly when detecting gaps i do not have the option to do so whatsoever. "To detect gaps, simply press F4 or go to Actions > Detect Gaps - neither of these work" Is this an issue? When creating a .cue it mentions checking for gaps. Secondly when Creating a CUE Sheet I only have the option Multiple WAV Files "Go to “Actions” > Create CUE Sheet > Multiple WAV Files with Gaps… (NonCompliant)." Is this an issue?
One thing I'm doing on my CD rips is I use canned air to blow off any dust on the CD. Then I take a microfiber cloth to clean the disk and remove any smudges. I do wonder how people get perfect rips when they have dust on their CD's as I don't see how the laser can read the data there when dust is on the CD.
The files are extracted in .wav and then later compressed as a final step when choosing "Test & Copy -> Selected Tracks -> Compressed" If that isn't happening and you're not seeing a "file creation error" appearing, then it's due to your "Compression settings" within the "External Compressor" tab being incorrect. Most commonly, this is due to the path to *.flac.exe being incorrect.
@shaRky....Why do some CDs still show as a .wav file after ripping them with EAC as a flac file? Do I have to use another program now to make them flac files? I ripped a double CD set and now the folder has two differwnt songs as track 1, two different songs as track 2, etc. Edit: Apparently the program became corrupted because I reinstalled it and I already noticed that the compressed file size of songs reads correctly now. It was showing 4 or 5MB file sizes before reinstallation.
Strangely my EAC is making bad flac fles, there is half second gap (no sound) in almost all tracks... not sure why, I follwed the whole tutorial. Also it does not make the log file at the end
Are you playing these files in VLC? For the past 5 years theres been a bug that causes all flac files not encoded with ffmpeg to skip, use a different player if so. As for the log, eac options -> tools or general, cant remeber which tab should have the option to save log after extraction, enable that if its off
Just got up and running. When rip process reaches "Compress by external program" step every trac ripped so far has triggered "The External Compressor returned an error" message. "OK" is selected, the file is written, and zero problem with playback. Thinking something wrong in my set up as the CD's (Dark Side of The Moon, Graceland) are standard commercial CD's. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Hey, chances are your "additional command line parameters" are missing a quotation mark or perhaps contain an extra space at the beginning or end. I know youtube has recently started auto-translating the descriptions of videos based on the language the viewers browser is in. It's possible it translated something breaking the parameters. Here they are: -8 -V -T "ARTIST=%artist%" -T "TITLE=%title%" -T "ALBUM=%albumtitle%" -T "DATE=%year%" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%tracknr%" -T "GENRE=%genre%" -T "PERFORMER=%albuminterpret%" -T "COMPOSER=%composer%" %haslyrics%--tag-from-file=LYRICS="%lyricsfile%"%haslyrics% -T "ALBUMARTIST=%albumartist%" -T "DISCNUMBER=%cdnumber%" -T "TOTALDISCS=%totalcds%" -T "TOTALTRACKS=%numtracks%" -T "COMMENT=%comment%" %source% -o %dest% Hopefully this works, while you're in the external compressor tab changing your parameters you can double check that you are using the "User defined encoder" and you are specifically pointing to "flac.exe" instead of just the folder that flac.exe is located in, so something like "C:\Program Files (x86)\Exact Audio Copy\FLAC\flac.exe"
Thanks for great tutorial! In the extraction method tab I pressed detect read features button and it said that my drive isn't compatible with drive caches audio data feature. Should I turn that feature on or off?
You should have drive caches audio turned on if you want the log file to score 100% even if your drive cant cache audio, this is because scoring a log doesnt consider what drive you have and whether it can cache audio or not, the scoring method only cares if it was enabled or not
@@mattisyrjaniemi323 no, it only changes how fast the rip is done. If your drive can cache audio as far as i know it will make the rip take less time, but thats about it
Metadata issue. After ripping multiple CD's, album cover artwork displayed on my Eversolo player is for the last track ripped. Looking in "music" file, artwork for last ripped track is the only artwork saved. What to do?
EAC does not embed artwork to your files. It only creates a cover.jpg in the folder. Most music players recognize a single image in the directory as the cover art for the album. You may have to tweak settings to have this happen, If your music player can't do this and you need the artwork embedded you will need to use a tag editing software or music player such as MP3Tag or Foobar2000 to embed said cover file into the individual files. It will then show up in your music player. Generally,, the "how" to do this involves importing the files into the tag editor/music player, then highlighting them and right clicking, then selecting some sort of preferences option that leads to an "art" tab. Here, it will generally allow you to embed or de-embed artwork to the files and let you choose which artwork goes on them. You'd want to embed the cover art to them post rip via this method.
I wonder why the manufacturer of the program does not provide such settings by default, since the program assumes that it should copy music from CDs without a scratch.
Hi, for me this is one of the best videos on youtube. Am I in trouble if my unit doesn't support the option "drive caches audio data" and I wanna obtain a 100% perfect copy of my CDs. Another question is: why does the option "drive is capable of retrieving C2 error information" must be turned off?
Hi, In short: you can get 100% logs even if your drive can't cache audio data, just enable it anyways and disable C2 error correction. // You have to enable 'drive caches audio data' and you have to disable 'drive is capable of c2 error correction' regardless of whether or not your drive is capable of doing either one. As long as you have things set that way you will receive a 100% log. The reason you need to do this is due to the fact that there isn't a referencable list of drives capable of caching audio data so logcheckers that score your log simply check whether or not the setting is enabled. If it's disabled your score is deducted by 10%. As for C2 error correction. ~15 years ago some members of the piracy community did some testing and found that C2 Error correction was faulty on some drives, so because there is no referencable list of drives that can handle C2 error correction the logchecker that determines whether or not you receive 100% will deduct 20% if its enabled.
Thx for aswering. So basically I ripped my CDs with the caching option turned off. The cue sheet says quality: 100%. Is the rip still perfect?@@sharky1112
Does anyone of the rippers have horrible problems with CT database recently? mI constantly have such error - track 12 has its nubmer bieng changed to 0 and if i do not spot it and re run the database get (sometimes need to do it few times or choose another DB entry) EAC always hangs when comes to ripping this mislabeled track...
Do you do anything about the weird hyphens and apostrophes? like replacing ’ by ' or - by - They bother me but I think i'm just exagerating. Everytime I rip a batch of CDs I always find a detail to freak out about and have to redo it all over again.
Uh, you dont have to re-do anything though? You can always tag your rip after the rip is done. Manually tagging your files post-rip doesn't affect the quality of the files and it means nothing if the filenames/metadata doesn't match the .log file. The .log file has the CRC32 value of each track which is impossible to change without modifying the raw waveform of the audio file itself so tagging can change and it will still match,.
@@sharky1112 Thanks for the reply! I'm curious to know if you personally, you replace those characters in the filenames or in the metadata or both, or if you just let them be.
@@NullVoid95 I only replace invalid characters that windows can't handle with full width replacements. The rest, I generally tag releases exactly how they appear on the release site/booklet with stylization so I don't have to go back and fix these things since I manually entered the one I wanted when tagging.
Depends what you mean by "so long" , but if your rips are taking anywhere between 20 minutes and 2 hours that's expected. ~1h should be the average per rip. The main reason why EAC takes so long is due to two specific settings: Test & Copy which rips the CD twice, producing two seperate CRC values, the point of this setting is to verify that between two different rips, the audio EAC extracted was identical, if the data wasn't identical there'd be a "CRC Mismatch" (when the Test CRC and Copy CRC don't match) which would mean that something's off with the rip, or specific tracks in the rip. Secure Mode reads each sector of your disc twice. Then, if there is any trouble reading a specific section of the disc - it will re-read those sectors multiple times until it's able to pull all of the data (this is error correction - that thing where the blocks light up red in EAC's ripping ETA window) so at minimum this takes 2x as long to rip a CD as oppose to something that only reads the sectors once, and if any error correction needs to be applied it will take much longer to finish the rip. So TL;DR - Two settings meant to make your rip more accurate / verify that the rip was done accurately cause you to rip the CD 2 times and read the data on the disc ~4 times. If you did away with error correction, cached audio, split tracks, compressing files and test & copy you could get EAC to rip discs in ~10 minutes or so. But the end result would not be very accurate.
The newer the version the better the compression. It wouldnt change much else, though - some very old versions have issues converting wav to flac and cause the files to corrupt. Its a pretty niche issue, but if youre experiencing incomplete tracks that stop abruptly or tracks that wont play or your files not converting from wav to flac that would be why.
@@sharky1112 Right, thanks for the quick response. Gonna have to set it up again but I have my flac profile, at least. Pretty sure the offset on my DVD-RW is +6 too but may aswell check with a disc.
Hello shaRky. Thank you very much for your guide. I followed it step by step and have been able to rip tens of CDs with no trouble! However, I wanted to ask for your help with a couple of "problematic" CDs that have resisted. It is actually just two, but the issue is the same in both cases: they are new, original and unscratched CDs and I follow the procedure that I follow with my other successful rips. However when it starts ripping the first track, the drive slows down abruptly and the error corrector kicks in, it fills and then proceeds ripping; however, a couple seconds later the error corrector kicks in again, fills again, proceeds ripping for a couple of seconds and then the error corrector activates again. This process continues on and on, and the expected ripping time for the CD increases each time: 1 hour, 3 hours, 10 hours, ..., 30 hours. At one point I just give up and cancel the ripping. I tried activating the burst mode for one of this problematic CDs and ripped it with the "Test & Copy" option for added security. What I noticed is that the CRCs matched in all tracks, except for the first one. Played the resulting files and my ears could not detect any defect so I just kept the files. It would be nice though to have that perfect rip 😉 What could be the problem and is there a solution available? Thanks for your help! 👍
You may be able to successfully rip the first track with secure mode by going into your drive settings, enabling "spin up drive before extraction" then, de-selecting all but the problem track. Rip that track alone to see if that changes the results. I would recommend ripping to a new directory or, moving your existing rip (or at least the existing track) to another directory. That way, if you are successful at ripping the track with no errors you can replace your errored copy with the newly ripped track. Your .log file will automatically append the second rip to it as long as you don't move it out of the directory. These rips are still considered perfect so long as you have the proof (via your log) that you did both rips. Your only other option would be to try another drive if you have one available to see if you luck out at that drive being capable of reading the disc in question. This situation is fairly common. Some drives are incapable of reading some CDs, or specific portions of specific CDs. In general, this is due to the data being stored in a very specific location on the disc that your drive is unable to read from. There is also an abandoned form of copyright protection that abuses the fact that most drives fail to read data if it is pressed in a specific way, in a specific location. You can unintentionally replicate this during the pressing process leaving you with CDs without copyright protection that also fail to rip on most drives. The only type of drives capable of reading these weak sectors are "2 sheep" drives, but the last time anybody cared about this sort of thing was the early 2000s, so drives found to be "2 sheep" are all ancient ATAPI/IDE models. web.archive.org/web/20050719080602/www.makeabackup.com/burners-sheep-2.html
@@sharky1112 Thank you very much for your response. I hadn't had the time to test your method and report the results. In short, I tried activating the "Spin Up Drive Before Extraction" option and at first it seemed to work because it reached 20% of the problematic track without the error corrector getting activated, but then it got activated and the same pattern repeated: error corrector activated, some small progress, error corrector activated, some small progress, etc. I tried waiting up until progress was at around 40% (in the test phase) but the expected time was climbing north of the hour and a half, so I decided to stop. After this I ripped the whole album in burst mode and at the very last part of the log file, on the CTDB Status column, the problem track reported a "Differs in 1336 samples @" followed by several time positions. Again checked the audio, and could not hear anything so the files remained in my PC. I guess I will try with a different drive in the future. Mine is a HL-DT-STDVDRAM GP96YW70 and, quite honestly, it has served me extremely well. Do you have a suggestion for a drive that could probably work better than mine? Thanks again for your help.
@@TheMathFilesThere is no guarentee that the drive you buy will rip a specific problematic CD. For that reason I wouldn't recommend any one drive since you may be spending money for nothing. Unless you are specifically trying to get a "100%" log to post this rip on a private tracker, having a few rips with a lower score is not a big deal. As long as they dont have any audible defects I personally wouldn't worry. As far as drives go, when looking to buy a new one it's benefitial to reference the CD Drive Accuracy List of (year before) as that will give you a good idea of which drives perfrom better than others. forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?48320-CD-Drive-Accuracy-2022 Then, you'd also want to plug these drives into www.daefeatures.co.uk/search?htoa=Yes to see if its able to rip HTOA tracks. I think I noted in my last comment to you that the only other feature one has that is worth considering are the "2 sheep" rated drives, which are able to bypass a specific form of copyright protection that was used in the early 2000s. web.archive.org/web/20050719080602/www.makeabackup.com/burners-sheep-2.html all of these are IDE though.
@sharky112 when I rip to flac I want to have the track number to show as for eg. 1 not 01 but I thought I had it set that way so it only show at least 1 number. Am I missing something?
%tracknr1% will do that as opposed to %tracknr2% which shows 2 and %tracknr3% which shows 3. For what it's worth, %tracknr2% is preferred because any release with more than 9 tracks will sort out of order, with track 11,12 etc appearing before tracks 2,3,4,5,6 etc.
@sharky1112 lol I just realised it might have been because I was ripping in aif instead. I also realised in the command part it just has %tracknr% not %tracknr1% oops maybe that why??
EAC won't pull any metadata if you haven't setup the option to do that yet. Assuming you're still at the enabling of Accurip step you shouldn't have enabled EAC to auto-populate from ctdb. Go to EAC Options -> General , then turn on "On unknown CDs automatically access online metadata database" Alternatively, look in the top left corner of EAC, beneath the "EAC" "Edit" "Action" buttons are a few icons, one of them is two CDs with a +, you can use this button to make EAC grab data from the metadata providers you have setup. It might prompt you to input an email, but the email doesn't actually matter. You can put whatever there and then hit OK. (Then re-click the button) As for "a Key Disc error" , you'll haev to be more specific, but I imagine it's telling you that you need to use 3 Key Discs instead of 1, or that your CD in question isn't suitable as a Key Disc. In both cases, this happens when the disc in question has dozens of pressings, if you have other CDs available you should try using them instead. To get Accurip to turn on though, you'll have to put 3 seperate discs in, each time clicking the 'Configure Accuraterip" pop-up until it actually does so. It should say 1/3 key discs, 2/3 key discs then it'll turn on. You don't have to rip the discs, they just need to be detected by EAC and used to configure accuraterip.
No, the prompt is to tell you the tags you currently have setup will be deleted. This does not delete data on the disc itself, only the metadata that you would be adding to the files.
Hello! While configuring metadata options, the CueTools plugin doesn't seem to show up under metadata providers. Any idea why this is happening? I'm using EAC 1.6 if that helps.
No idea, besides potentially not selecting it when you first installed EAC as one of the plugins you want to have installed. You can install it after the fact, see here: cue.tools/wiki/CTDB_EAC_Plugin
After each song I get an error message reading: "The external compressor returned an error" followed by the code in your comment with the metadata for my tracks inserted into it. There seems to be an issue whilst writing the metadata to the flac file that is stalling the whole process.
UA-cam has been translating descriptions and removing certain characters from them for a while now - this has caused the command line parameters to sometimes be affected. -8 -V -T "ARTIST=%artist%" -T "TITLE=%title%" -T "ALBUM=%albumtitle%" -T "DATE=%year%" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%tracknr%" -T "GENRE=%genre%" -T "PERFORMER=%albuminterpret%" -T "COMPOSER=%composer%" %haslyrics%--tag-from-file=LYRICS="%lyricsfile%"%haslyrics% -T "ALBUMARTIST=%albumartist%" -T "DISCNUMBER=%cdnumber%" -T "TOTALDISCS=%totalcds%" -T "TOTALTRACKS=%numtracks%" -T "COMMENT=%comment%" %source% -o %dest% Here they are again, try pasting these in to see if that changes things. If you are on EAC V1.4 or 1.5 specifically there is an issue with the section "%haslyrics%--tag-from-file=LYRICS="%lyricsfile%"%haslyrics% -T" which would need to be removed to function as normal. If you already had exactly those parameters pasted in and you are not on 1.4 or 1.5 to have an issue with writing the lyrics metadata block, try updating your flac binary to a newer version. Some old versions (1.2.x and older) seem to have trouble encoding to flac from wav when called from EAC.
Hello, I have followed your guide exactly but unfortunately I keep getting an error which is really bugging me. My log file is saying that all of my tracks are acurately ripped, but when I listen to one of the tracks there is a brief moment in the song (less than a second) where the audio just cuts out. I have played the cd back on its own and there is no issue at all. Any idea on how to solve this? Thanks.
Look in your log file on the track in question and see if either "Timing Problem(s)" "Suspicious Position(s)" or the Test CRC and Copy CRC of the track are different, these three errors would indicate there is a reasonable explination for the skip to be present. If this is the case, there isn't anything that can guarentee a perfect copy but you can try the following: If its suspicious positions/timing problems go to EAC -> Drive Options -> Offset/Speed -> disable 'lead in/lead out' If its a CRC mismatch (the test and copy crc of the track are different) you could try: Cleaning the cd then re-ripping Re-ripping just the track with audible errors Going into EAC Options - > Drive Options -> Spin up drive before extraction then re-ripping just the track with the error Trying ripping the CD with a different cd drive Things I would advise against, as there is no guarentee that it will stop crc mismatches. It might be a waste of money Buying a new drive to rip the CD then trying w/ the new drive - It's seemingly random whether the drive will be capable of obtaining the damaged sectors, some can some can't and there is no way to know until you try Buying a new copy of the CD - Some CDs are badly pressed and consistently produce CRC mismatches across multiple copies/drives DIY/Commerically resurface the existing CD/new copy if there are visible scratches - may completely ruin the CD so keep that in mind
Thanks for the tutorial, Really of great help. One question: If I use another DVD/CD drive to rip, do I need to go through all the options again, or just those options under 'Drive'?
Youll need to activate accuraterip for the other drive, at most you may additionally have to change the gap detection method but besides that no, the rest of your settings will be saved. I would suggest saving profiles for each drive so that you dont have to change the settings a bit each time you switch drives
For MacOSX users who stumbled on this video, don't worry! You can rip your CDs using XLD instead.
I made a guide for that here: ua-cam.com/video/fZLC90A0nOM/v-deo.html
What if i just want wav did i just need to click the wav icon in the left side without need setting in the video. Right?
@@nickyxie5035 Actions -> Test & Copy Selected Tracks -> Uncompressed.
I would follow the settings in the video except for the compression tab as that only pertains to flac.
@@sharky1112it takes longer time than before follow your guide😢. I hope it perfect as you say. Right now gonna try it
@@nickyxie5035 secure mode reads each sector at least twice, more if theres any damage. Test and copy rips the cd twice. A test rip and a copy rip to match the crc values together so you know that the rip was done accurately.
This makes rips take 2-4x as long as using burst mode (inaccurate, ignores errors) and just copy (only rips 1 copy, cant match crcs)
@@sharky1112 so how about dbpoweramp which one you think make perfect rip if both of it in secure mode?
Awesome tutorial! Feels like I went from apprentice to tradesman in 20 minutes. Thank you for helping the audio community.
Just got around to breaking out my CD collection and have ripped about 8 CDs so far. This was a life saver. Great detail and so far my rips have been perfect. Another 300 or so and I’ll be done and ready to pass on my collection to my son. Really appreciate the time spent on this.
By using the recommended settings in the video. How long is it taking you to rip each CD in "Secure mode"? Mine wants to take an hour and a half. Though if I change the one setting to "Burst mode", then it takes 30 minutes.
@@colt5189 Burst mode is inaccurate.
@@問答無用-t2y However, If the CD is in accurateRip database and You get accuracy confirmation after Burst Mode you are safe - you rip is perfect. If the CD is not in the databse or you don't get perfect rip confirmation from it - you have to use Secure Mode.
@@jonrael3443 It can however lead to timing problems.
@@問答無用-t2y How? If the rip marches AR databse it is a perfect bit to bit copy of CD.
As an physical media collector, and some one who is still buying cds from new bands, I thank you! I just descovered EAC after years of doing fast simple rips with Sound Forge. I am a quality nerd when it comes to video and audio, and this helped me out a lot. Going to be ripping all my CDs into uncompressed WAV files with EAC. Thanks!
You mean flac?
flac is compressed. wav is uncompressed. @@Metalhead-4life
@@Metalhead-4lifeno. he means wav.
13:40 for people who installed somewhere other then the default spot here's a easy way to find the path just navigate to where you installed it and find flac.exe hit shift while right clicking and click "copy file path" then paste it ( just make sure to remove the quotes)
What an excellent tutorial. You nailed it. Thanks a million!
Holly "all the info" Batman that was amazing thank you very much
This was an amazingly detailed tutorial!
15:40 marks the end of the setup process.
Incredible and clear tutorial.
How would I know what directory to store something I haven't even see before. Save WHAT? Save it to Where, a FOLDER? I put stuff in folders but that is NOT a directory. I don't even know what this means.
GUYS, DON'T FORGET to see the description of this video! It has all special characters showed in 9:17 and the command line, showed in 14:01 😉😊
For some reason, the special characters that I copied don't work
@@KitsuneNoNatsu Do this: copy the description of this video and paste it in the Windows Notepad (if you do not use Windows, use the notepad of your O.S.), because it will erase the formatation, then copy it from notepad and paste it on the EAC blank spaces. Try it. I think it will work. This was what I've done and worked very well!
Hello, I got a Sony walkman and ripped a few cds using Sony Media Center. Should I start over using this EAC? I compared songs ripped with Sony Media Center to few songs I ripped with EAC and they (flacs) were same kb vbr. Is the quality better with EAC? Should I start over? Thank you
Why did my comment I just posted disappear?
I was saying I have a 40yr old CD (MJ - Thriller) that won’t rip not even at 0.1x speed. I think it’s a foreign pressing and someone told me about offset, but have no idea how to do it. Something about lead in? Or try burst mode. Cd looks new and I’m surprised it won’t work. It plays fine in a CD player but when it spins it makes a bit of noise. What would you suggest? Thank you
Enabling accuraterip (the first step in the video) determines your offset. Lead in/lead out is a setting you can enable in your Drive Settings, it only works with certain drives and the ones it doesnt work with, it causes your rips to get a suspicious position error on the last track of every disc you rip. You can try enabling it but it probably wont make the copy rip.
If you go into drive settings and select either burst mode or paranoia mode, you will be able to rip the disc because neither has error correction. Any problems that eac was trying to correct will be skipped over, which usually allows you to rip the disc. Just keep in mind, doing this will cause parts of your rip to have skips, clicks and distortion assuming you encounter errors (which it sounds like you will).
Damaged discs can play in cd players because the cd player is built to correct errors whereas cd drives are not.
It being a foreign pressing doesnt matter for ripping, but if its genuinely 40 years old it might have disc rot which would make it, or at least parts of it unrippable.
If the disc has no visible damage you could try other drives to see if one will rip it, but the "just try other drives" option is usually not available to anyone who isnt a serious fanatic with a crate of extra drives at their disposal
@@sharky1112 I used burst mode, no errors were found, music sounds good. No rot, looks like new. It really is that old (1982).
Thanks for the tutorial. Do you know what the dropdown box at the bottom of the screen alongside Load, Save, and New is for?
Pls make more videos! You are so good! Best description
"I've ripped over 4000 CDs" Bro is the creator of rutracker xD
Kobaryo c:
Thanks dood. Just ripped my Arcaea Sound Collection c:
Is there away to rip and entire CD into "one" single .wav file?
Choose "copy selected range" as opposed to "test and copy selected tracks" (you could use test and copy on the selected range instead, but thats a waste of time if youre not going for a "perfect" rip
Pardon-me my insistance : Despite th pop-up never shows up, I have the Accurate Rip logo at the bottom on the right corner!?!? It's really confusing!
I've been trying to find a tutorial like this for a while. This is almost exactly what I needed. I've watched it and taken lots of notes. But there are still some pretty basic things that I don't understand or know how to do. Like how to set up a filing system. How to locate the filing system. Etc. But thanks for the great tutorial.
If Accuraterip window not poping up, turn off VPN in my case that was a reason, maybe will be helpfull for others.
Thank you so so much!!!! I set this up a couple years ago but just reinstalled windows so had to redo the whole thing haha, was very happy to find this video again
Just discovered EAC as a tool to rip CDs to FLAC format and this tutorial was quite simply excellent! Thank you so much for taking the trouble to share your knowledge!!
Why's it important to enable drive caching? EAC itself states that the option can cause unnecessary risk to the rip quality, and it takes substantially longer for the rip to complete.
The intention of this guide is to provide people with the information needed to receive a log file that scores 100% as well as a perfect copy.
The log file is scored based on the settings used/not used and, because it does not take into account each specific drive model and whether they can handle c2 error correction correctly or whether they can make use of the cached data it will indiscriminately score the log with deductions if C2 Error correction is enabled and if Caches audio data is disabled. So, doesn't matter what the setting does in the end, if you want a 100% log you have to leave it enabled.
As for the perfect rip aspect. This does not harm the rip in any way to leave on if your drive doesn't make use of it.
So, because it's a required setting when going for a 100% log and because it can't make your perfect rip not perfect I am saying to have it enabled.
You're welcome to leave it off if you're worried. I would encourage you to look for more information regarding it being damaging to your drive. I don't believe it is. Also, was the source of this information: wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=EAC_Drive_Options this link? It's 13 years old and a public wiki, it's not indicative of EACs actual stance.
Edit: I Inquired further, and there are no threads in any private music communities expressing concern over this particular setting, whether you believe that or feel its sufficient to enable it is up to you.
And it ripped in .wav... not .flac. I don't know what I'm doing wrong.
Excellent guide and backup materials.
thank you so much for putting this together. Started Ripping my CD collection and so far all is going well
How do I know if my drive is capable of Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out? I bought an "ATA DRW-24F1ST d" in 2021.
To quote a written EAC guide
"If you want to figure out whether your drive needs "Overread into Lead-in and Lead-Out" checked, you can check by temporarily unchecking "Use AccurateRip with this drive". Stick a CD in the drive and hit "Detect read sample offset correction...". If you're just doing this for the Overread, see below:
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Check "Overread Lead-In and Lead-Out" only if the test result says that your drive can overread from both the Lead-In and Lead-Out, or if it says Lead-Out and your offset correction is positive, or if it says Lead-In and your offset correction is negative. Otherwise disable (uncheck) it."
Once you've figured out if your drive is capable you'd want to re-enable 'use AccurateRip with this drive' btw.
Thank you, really helpful.
The Character Replacements function caused big problems. They stopped the resulting files from being recognised by LMS - Logitech Media Studio.
A suggested set-up for practical everyday use rather than perfect use, and for mp3 would be great also.
Thanks again.
Hi, the character replacements are optional as per the video. They are however, supported by all modern music players, windows, Mac and Linux as well as iOS/Android Devices. Sorry to say but Logitech Media Studio is shit if it can't handle them, and they were chosen for practical everyday use, not for being 'perfect'.
The most important factor in using character replacements is that they work on windows. This is why the defaults are hyphens and x's, precisely because they work on windows. The replacements I listed also work on windows, which makes them as practical as they will ever be.
Secondly, don't use EAC if you wish to rip MP3s, the entire point of using EAC is for bit perfect quality, you're going through more effort / taking longer to rip the files to do so. If you choose to rip MP3 with EAC you will be taking at the very least 2x longer than any other program to rip the MP3 files which cannot be perfect because they are mp3 to begin with. In spite of this, there IS a section in the written guide for users who wish to rip with MP3.
docs.google.com/document/d/1b1JJsuZj2TdiXs--XDvuKdhFUdKCdB_1qrmOMGkyveg/edit?usp=sharing
The only differences between the two setups is changing the file path in external compression options to mp3.exe, the file extension to .mp3 and the command-line to either a MP3 V0 or MP3 320 suitable command-line (or a lesser format if you feel so inclined)
Again, this is covered in the written guide should you want to waste your time ripping MP3s with EAC, specifically in the "External Compression" section.
External compressor returns error... -8 -V -T "ARTIST=%artist%" -T "TITLE=%title%" -T "ALBUM=%albumtitle%" -T "DATE=%year%" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%tracknr%" -T "GENRE=%genre%" -T "PERFORMER=%albuminterpret%" -T "COMPOSER=%composer%" %haslyrics%--tag-from-file=LYRICS="%lyricsfile%"%haslyrics% -T "ALBUMARTIST=%albumartist%" -T "DISCNUMBER=%cdnumber%" -T "TOTALDISCS=%totalcds%" -T "TOTALTRACKS=%numtracks%" -T "COMMENT=%comment%" %source% -o %dest%
Whats wrong? All it does is creating the wav file, and then this error message pops up..
I have similar result as you. I just revert back to the default command line and everything seems back to normal
Novice Here.
Great Tutorial - Thank You.
I have EAC software installed (I really like it) and can Rip/Burn without problems.
However my question is:
Can I Rip WAV files for a CD and save these to a memory stick so they can be played as a whole album (with gaps) on an external device..........or do I need another program for this?
Many Thanks In Advance.
You'd select actions -> test & copy selected range -> uncompressed
There's probably no point in using test & copy for this, so if you want it to go 2x faster just select "copy selected range" then pick uncompressed.
Be aware WAV files don't retain tags the same way FLAC files do. External devices should be able to FLAC files and most hardware you'd be playing it on does to. So, unless yours can't I would stick with FLAC.
Its a damn shame you have so few subs. A good quality voiceover, and a full guide to get up and running, for most. Found this video looking for how to use this program, as I had no clue how to start the process yet alone get my disc to show up, and solved every problem I had and got it set up in a way that is performing perfectly. I had used a trial version of db something, which produced only corrupted tracks that no program could recognize, and feared I would spend considerable time finding a replacement that at least got that far.
I already have a great DVD ripper that let me put my collection on my media server, but bought my first CD a bit ago and it wasn't able to rip CDs. Looking to get all the songs I tend to listen to on UA-cam, as it is ad free music I will own and could listen to anywhere.
dBpoweramp is probably fine, it might just be the flac binary it ships with, or that you already had that is causing the corrupt tracks. There is known issues with some earlier versions of FLAC that can cause tracks to be corrupt.
If you attempt to rip uncompressed wav files instead, they'd probably be fine. This issue also affects EAC tbh, and any other ripping software, since it is the conversion from wav to flac that is causing it.
Not worried about subs lol, I just made this for my friends ^^
Does this appear ok?
This was from ripping a single track- Exact Audio Copy V1.6 from 23. October 2020
EAC extraction logfile from 2. March 2024, 21:08
Wings / Wings at the Speed of Sound
Used drive : HL-DT-STDVDRAM GP65NB60 Adapter: 1 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : Yes
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Appended to previous track
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 128 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Pre-gap length 0:00:01.65
Peak level 99.3 %
Extraction speed 1.6 X
Track quality 99.9 %
Test CRC 177E98F6
Copy CRC 177E98F6
Accurately ripped (confidence 200) [26F2CD86] (AR v2)
Copy OK
All tracks accurately ripped
No errors occurred
End of status report
Yes, that's good.
Whenever I rip a cd with the software with all the information.
The info (excluding the file name) for the contributing artist and album name doesn’t show up after the cd is done ripping to my computer (when I click on the folder). Is this normal, or how can I fix it?
If you open your files up in a music player, tag editing software or even by inspecting them and opening preferences, are the tags present? If yes, then it's a file explorer issue. If no, then it's the "Compression" settings in EAC, in particular "External Compressor" tab, where I note pasting in the custom args, make sure this has been correctly copy and pasted. UA-cam started translating descriptions automatically so it might have fucked up the parameters.
As for file explorer:
If you're on Windows 7 it's normal because Win7 doesn't officially support reading FLAC metadata in file explorer. You have to use a third party app to add that functionality.
If you're on windows 8+ and this is happening, chances are that either your file explorer view is incorrectly setup, possibly for "general" view as opposed to detailed view or for music files.
Alternatively, if you embed cover art larger than approximately 2MiB to the files a process in file explorer that reads the metadata will overflow due to the padding size and crash, no longer rendering tags in the Title, Artist, Album etc fields. Only way to fix this in particular would be to embed smaller images and for existing rips with huge embeds you'd have to both de-embed the artwork and remove the excess padding.
Of course ripping Reise, Reise has to be so difficult.
Hey, friend, can you help me, please? The AccurateRip pop-up is not showing with any disc, I tried a lot of discs, including the most popular ones. I don't know if it is because I had EAC installed before. I deleted the program and installed it again (maybe there's a residual cache file somewhere?)
EAC saves the drive's offset (The thing you're setting up by enabling AccurateRip) as a registry key. Deleting EAC doesn't remove the registry key, and if you by chance use(d) dBpoweramp, they share the same registry key so it's possible that AccurateRip has already been enabled.
To confirm whether this is the case, go to "Drive Settings" (top left corner) then "Offset/Speed" and if the top half of the tab is greyed out + you are able to enable the "Enable accuraterip with this drive" button, then you already have accuraterip enabled and you can skip that step.
Alternatively, maybe you enabled beginner mode which would cause you to be unable to activate accuraterip. Go to EAC Options > Tools then at the bottom make sure that beginner mode isn't enabled.
Only other reasons for accuraterip to not pop up despite trying many CDs would be because either EAC doesn't have access to the internet, or the PC itself doesn't have access to the internet or; the discs are somehow all too badly damaged and EAC can't read any of them (though this is very unlikely)
@@sharky1112 thank you very much for your reply.
I've figured out that I already had the AccurateRip configured from my previous EAC installation.
By the way, thanks for this video and the text guide. It's awesome that you had so much work to help other people.
Thanks man! This is a great guide! I wanted to note that I can't get Asian text to write onto the cuesheet following your steps. No matter what there's no option for the cuesheet to encode in UTF-8 or UTF-16 as it will always encode the sheet in ANSII. Any other work around like exporting to CDPlayer.ini is useless as I want the metadata to be transferred from EAC to each individual tracks. Now I have to create my own cuesheet in UTF-16, transfer the metadata from the ANSI to it then manually input the tags myself which is what I did not want sigh..
Is there a way to just encode the entire CD as one single .wav or .flac file with a cuesheet? I haven't figured it out. I did it long ago I believe but it's been years.
In order to get cuesheets to output in another encoding you'll need to change your locale. Being on any of the english locales will output ANSI so, change to japanese and you'll get shift-jis encoded cues instead which handles unicode characters.
Keep in mind that EAC preserves the encoding of metadata submitted to the metadata provider so once and a while you'll import metadata and the cuesheet will output in some non-shift-jis format.
As far as sharing these rips goes - the majority of peoples cuesheets are completely broken for unicode characters/non-latin characters and there's really no problem.
The cuesheet is already "broken" when created because you're converting your files to FLAC. It only functions when the files are .wav so - people really don't look at the tags within the cuesheet, the only concern is that it retains the gaps if ever someone really wants to burn the files back to CD.
When burning back to CD you'd modify the tags within the cuesheet yourself to your liking. This is to say, you can safely ignore your cuesheets tags when ripping if you're not personally burning the files back to CD.
As for how to rip a single file, you choose range rip. Actions -> Copy selected range (iirc, don't have the program open rn to confirm)
If you're going to rip it ""incorrectly""" per private tracker standards you may as well also not use "Test & Copy" as that will slow down the rip by 2x and, possibly change your rip settings from "Secure Mode" to "Burst Mode" to reduce your time ripping by another 2x.
This process being overkill, whats the alternative for those who want pristine accurate ripping but use the mp3 extension?
Thanks
The method is irrelevent if youre using a lossy codec. Your music player likely has a built in function for ripping cds, just use that.
Pristine accurate ripping and mp3 isnt possible lol
Help, my DVD read writer has "printed" over my cd while ripping. Effectively destroying the lable artwork! Is this a setting mistake that I've made?
Nothing shown in my video can mistakenly do this. Retail CDs also can't be written over in this way. I don't know what you did, but it took multiple mistakes to pull off
Im not getting any album cover on my tracks. Why?
Because EAC doesn't embed album art and presumably your music player doesn't recognize a 'cover.jpg' in the folder (or whatever the image is called) as being the cover art for all the files.
@@sharky1112 Okey. And another thing, when detecting gaps, it just stays on the 3rd track and doesnt proceed? Can it take a long time?
@@jespero93 Might happen if the disc is damaged, though you can try going into the gap detection settings then changing the detection method from whatever letter its curerntly on (A/B/C) to a different one, and then also from "Accurate" to "Secure" or vise versa. Doing so might allow it to work.
My Extraction options don't include the tick off boxes "Fill up missing offset samples with silence" or "Synchronize between tracks" did I miss something?
Go to EAC Options -> Tools and then disable the "activate beginner mode, disable all advanced features" setting you have enabled.
It will unhide the advanced settings (those two options and many others)
very good video for a newbie. What i do find funny tho is the fact it took me longer to rip a 40min cd album than a 1hr+ blu ray that is several gbs bigger. wtf 😂
They are two completely different processes, extracting the video off of a BD is also going to be much quicker than doing a rip of the full BD. (Not sure which you're doing in this case)
Though, that said - the main reason why EAC takes so long is due to two specific settings:
Test & Copy which rips the CD twice, producing two seperate CRC values, the point of this setting is to verify that between two different rips, the audio EAC extracted was identical, if the data wasn't identical there'd be a "CRC Mismatch" (when the Test CRC and Copy CRC don't match) which would mean that something's off with the rip, or specific tracks in the rip.
Secure Mode reads each sector of your disc twice. Then, if there is any trouble reading a specific section of the disc - it will re-read those sectors multiple times until it's able to pull all of the data (this is error correction - that thing where the blocks light up red in EAC's ripping ETA window) so at minimum this takes 2x as long to rip a CD as oppose to something that only reads the sectors once, and if any error correction needs to be applied it will take much longer to finish the rip.
So TL;DR - Two settings meant to make your rip more accurate / verify that the rip was done accurately cause you to rip the CD 2 times and read the data on the disc ~4 times.
If you did away with error correction, cached audio, split tracks, compressing files and test & copy you could get EAC to rip discs in ~10 minutes or so. But the end result would not be very accurate.
The other thing about logs and cue sheets is that they can be used by databases such as MusicBrainz to determine accurate Disc ID's, and even assign ISRC's to tracks on a CD and thus be able to link the same recordings (typically songs) across different albums.
In general their information is good to have for any sort of database editing, on different fronts.
Submitting the log also allows for AcoustID retrieval.
This was a great tutorial! I've been getting back into physical media and this was very easy to understand. Bless you, laddie!
happy to help ^^
Thanks for the vid, nailed it.
Thank you very much sir, nicely explained and the special characters are a game changer in my entire digital organization method.
Even a primary school kid can somehow understand these procedures. Thanks so much for the detailed information!
EZ CD-DA Extractor is just a better experience for me.
Using EAC is free but i have an issue finding the artwork/cd cover -so dam anoying
They use the same database so I don't see how one can find the artwork while the other can't.
Either way, neither pulls high res artwork so I would personally avoid using the cover art lookup and just get high quality art myself during the 1-2 hour downtime during the ripping process.
Are there any real drawbacks just copying instead of testing and copying?
When I rip a 10 track cd it’s around 20 minutes just copying but with testing and copying it takes around 50 minutes for the same cd to rip
Test and copy rips the cd twice, secure mode reads each sector of the cd twice at minimum, so basically these two settings make your rip take 4 to 6 times as long as it could when used together.
The only drawback to using burst mode over secure is that if there is an error it will skip over it which translates to skips or staric or distortion in specific parts of a track, its quite uncommon to get errors on well taken care of cds tho.
As for using just copy, you just wont know if the rip you did would consistently output the same files. Does inconsistent outputs between two rips translate to audibly different files? Sometimes, but not always.
TLDR: you can use burst mode instead of secure and just copy if you want to speed things up considerably. Only drawback is not knowing if/when errors occur. But these errors wont happen very often on well taken care of cds.
For what its worth, this video was made with the explicit purpose of showing how to rip a perfect copy, but it doesnt mean it would be bad not to, the rips will sound the same when no errors are present.
Thank you for an awesome instructional vid! I have an issue though. I want to rip a live CD into one file which displays each track name as it plays. Is this possible?
Thank you!
Depends, you are able to perform a range rip which will rip the entire CD into a single file. The accompanying cuesheet you create will then split the files into individual tracks within your music player.
Whatever you're using needs to support the use of cuesheets and, given you are essentially just splitting the range rip into individual tracks within the music player it would be the same thing as just ripping individual tracks imo.
To do a range rip, Action -> copy range
then, for the cue Action -> create cue sheet -> pick the one relating to range rips, i forget what its called.
hello im getting an external compression error and it stops ripping so i can acknowledge it then it saves as a wav ive tried a few things but no luck
Try downloading the latest version of flac from their official site (iirc its ver 1.4.4) then saving it somewhere youre sure eac has permission to access. Then go to your compression tab and change the location of your flac.exe to that new location.
My assumption is either you dont have permission to access flac, your location is only pointing to the folder flac.exe is located and not directly to flac.exe, or..
Youre ripping to a network drive like your NAS or something, and it doesnt have a letter mapped to it which is confusing the compressor. You can map your network drive so that it can.
Also, i guess worth mentioning that UA-cam auto translates the description of videos now so its possible the command line encoder is messed up if youre not an english speaker. You can try to copy it from within my google docs guide instead
@@sharky1112 sorted thanks for your detailed reply on a relatively old video i appreciate it , liking and subbing
@@sharky1112 I just set up EAC again on a new PC and got this error only on 2 tracks of the first CD I ripped, never happened to me before (using your tutorial).
I do now rip to a new drive with an assigned letter tho which is a difference for sure.
I know this is just an assumption game we are playing but I have it pointing to the correct flac.exe and my youtube doesn't try to translate the description either. Thought if permissions were messed up it would always fail or am I wrong on that?
Either way I am going to try and download that flac version and try again!
@@warlordwossman5722 If it's only on two tracks, I imagine it's actually a "file creation error" which occurs when there is an invalid character within the track name(s). Check and see if they contain any invisible characters or large amounts of empty space either at the front or end of the track.
This sort of thing happens when you copy the tracklist from a database site like discogs that uses a page left invisible character to format their text
@@sharky1112 strangely enough I only did those 2 tracks again and it just worked without any changes.
Tagged the CD with copied titles from metal archives so no excessive amount of spaces or anything.
But thank you anyways for all the help.
How can I manually set the cd cover art? I just want to add a jpg or jpeg as the cd cover but dragging the image or right clicking the box doesn't allow for adding an image, it's grayed out.
This is due to Windows being terrible. Your windows explorer has lower permissions than EAC does which forbids you from dragging images into EAC from windows explorer.
There is a solution, and I will write it below but I would highly recommend just putting the cover.jpg into the folder you are ripping to. When you attach it on EAC all it does is go into the folder so just skip the middleman and put it there yourself.
As for the solution, you will need to run a program with a context menu allowing you to access your files in administrator mode to give you the same permission elevation as EAC. Then, open the context menu and search for the cover art you want to put in EAC. Once found, drag it from this open context menu into EAC. Not worth it, right?
This is such a good tutorial! I had no prior knowledge of ripping CDs, but bought some of my favorites because I wanted high-quality files to sample in my music production, and despite having absolutely no prior knowledge, I got it all to work first try! I really love when tutorials are this structured and easy to follow. The only minor, and I mean minor, criticism that I have, is that I did have to Google how to find the flac.exe file. I think that was a little bit unclear, but besides that, absolutely fantastic tutorial. And besides, such a minor thing in a tutorial like this is still really great. Good stuff! :) Excited to rip more CDs now!
This is an awesome guide! Thank you. I used to rip CDs a decade ago, and I stopped. Now I am back to it. :)
Thank you Sharky for the guide. Could you tell me what percentage of accuracy from accurate rip should be expected in the log file to know you have a perfect or near perfect copy of your Flacs?
Accuraterips only real purpose is to set your drives offset value for you.
I assume by percentage you are looking at the "track quality" value under each track in the log?
The value here only indicates the percentage of error correction that was applied to the track during the ripping process. 100% means none, 99.9% means 0.01% error correction was applied.
Error correction being applied doesnt indicate it isnt perfect and in many cases will be unavoidable, so this value should be ignored.
Your log file will let you know when errors are present in the ripping process. These errors indicate the rip is not perfect. If there are none then it is reasonable to assume it is as close to perfect as it can be.
The errors are "timing problem(s)" "suspicious position(s)" or, the test CRC and copy CRC values do not match (called a CRC mismatch) and these errors tend to appear when EAC displays "read/sync error" during the ripping process
Hello Sharky, just a quick recognition for the professionalism of your guides, both in Video and written versions. As part of the community a big Thank You!!!
Thanks so much for this video dude! It really helped me.
Mines rips to wav, not flac
Best guide in internet, thank you.
Thanks for including the command-line text. Tried a few different ones and this is the only one that successfully filled in the tags.
Is it normal for a rip disk to take 1 to 2 hours? I thought this process would be faster 🥺
Unfortunately, yes.
If you go into drive options -> drive, then enable "spin up drive before extraction" it may speed things up as many drives cannot reach their full potential without it.
Secure mode reads each sector at minimum twice (in other words rips the CD twice) and more times if it encounters data it can't read.
Test & Copy creates a test rip, calculates the CRC32 value of the wav files, deletes the files then creates a second copy - the copy you end up with after the rip and does the same again.
The above two settings are essentially making you rip your CD at least 4 times, if not more.
You have ways to speed the process up at risk of errors, if you just want a listenable copy and don't intend to share them anywhere you could change to "burst mode" and only use "copy rip" instead of "test & copy selected tracks" but you may encounter audible errors if the CD is damaged or just can't be read on first passthrough.
I will note that if you have a significant amount of CDs to rip, like hundreds - and you need 100% logs so test & copy and secure mode are required for you and you have an external cd drive - I would consider using a virtual machine to run macos 10.13, installing XLD and using XLD to rip your CDs instead. XLD is on average 52% faster than EAC from some tests I ran and had others help with. EAC sucks ass ;-;
why does all software have to be so over complicated these days, all I want to do is put a CD in and rip it with artwork and titles, is this too much to ask?
Most ripping software can do this and always has been able to do this. You chose a video for creating 100% logs and ripping perfect flac copies it's overly complicated for that reason alone.
The accuraterip configure pop up never showed, but the logo pops up on the bottom right corner when I popped a cd in. Does that mean it is still activated?
Dont think so, but you can confirm by going to drive options -> offset/speed and looking to see if the top half of this tab is greyed out, and whether or not you can enable "use accuraterip with this drive" , if its not greyed out/you cant then it isnt setup
Very helpful. Haven't managed to get the AccurateRip to display yet, so followed the rest of the instructions. After watching the clip used the written guide you created, thank you very much!
This kept happening to me as well. I had uninstalled and reinstalled multiple times. Then I tried keeping the GD3 Metadata plugin in the original set up, and then finally got the AccurateRip to pop up! I don't know if this will help but it might be worth a shot
I'm using EAC V1.6
Firstly when detecting gaps i do not have the option to do so whatsoever.
"To detect gaps, simply press F4 or go to Actions > Detect Gaps - neither of these work"
Is this an issue? When creating a .cue it mentions checking for gaps.
Secondly when Creating a CUE Sheet I only have the option Multiple WAV Files
"Go to “Actions” > Create CUE Sheet > Multiple WAV Files with Gaps… (NonCompliant)."
Is this an issue?
You only have these options because you have beginner mode enabled. Go to EAC Options -> Tools -> untick beginner mode at the bottom of the tab.
@sharky1112 thank you for the quick reply!
Excellent job. I greatly appreciate your effort to educate the community. Now, I would like to figure out how to make CD from my saved files.
One thing I'm doing on my CD rips is I use canned air to blow off any dust on the CD. Then I take a microfiber cloth to clean the disk and remove any smudges. I do wonder how people get perfect rips when they have dust on their CD's as I don't see how the laser can read the data there when dust is on the CD.
It can.
@sharky1112 Why is it that during the uncompress or compress process, only wav files appear in the folder, but no Flac files? Please, thank you
The files are extracted in .wav and then later compressed as a final step when choosing "Test & Copy -> Selected Tracks -> Compressed"
If that isn't happening and you're not seeing a "file creation error" appearing, then it's due to your "Compression settings" within the "External Compressor" tab being incorrect.
Most commonly, this is due to the path to *.flac.exe being incorrect.
@@sharky1112 thank you broo,,, is done 👍
@shaRky....Why do some CDs still show as a .wav file after ripping them with EAC as a flac file? Do I have to use another program now to make them flac files? I ripped a double CD set and now the folder has two differwnt songs as track 1, two different songs as track 2, etc.
Edit: Apparently the program became corrupted because I reinstalled it and I already noticed that the compressed file size of songs reads correctly now. It was showing 4 or 5MB file sizes before reinstallation.
Strangely my EAC is making bad flac fles, there is half second gap (no sound) in almost all tracks... not sure why, I follwed the whole tutorial. Also it does not make the log file at the end
Are you playing these files in VLC? For the past 5 years theres been a bug that causes all flac files not encoded with ffmpeg to skip, use a different player if so.
As for the log, eac options -> tools or general, cant remeber which tab should have the option to save log after extraction, enable that if its off
ok thank you. I was using vlc as a matter of fact.
Just got up and running. When rip process reaches "Compress by external program" step every trac ripped so far has triggered "The External Compressor returned an error" message. "OK" is selected, the file is written, and zero problem with playback. Thinking something wrong in my set up as the CD's (Dark Side of The Moon, Graceland) are standard commercial CD's. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Hey, chances are your "additional command line parameters" are missing a quotation mark or perhaps contain an extra space at the beginning or end.
I know youtube has recently started auto-translating the descriptions of videos based on the language the viewers browser is in. It's possible it translated something breaking the parameters.
Here they are:
-8 -V -T "ARTIST=%artist%" -T "TITLE=%title%" -T "ALBUM=%albumtitle%" -T "DATE=%year%" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%tracknr%" -T "GENRE=%genre%" -T "PERFORMER=%albuminterpret%" -T "COMPOSER=%composer%" %haslyrics%--tag-from-file=LYRICS="%lyricsfile%"%haslyrics% -T "ALBUMARTIST=%albumartist%" -T "DISCNUMBER=%cdnumber%" -T "TOTALDISCS=%totalcds%" -T "TOTALTRACKS=%numtracks%" -T "COMMENT=%comment%" %source% -o %dest%
Hopefully this works, while you're in the external compressor tab changing your parameters you can double check that you are using the "User defined encoder" and you are specifically pointing to "flac.exe" instead of just the folder that flac.exe is located in, so something like "C:\Program Files (x86)\Exact Audio Copy\FLAC\flac.exe"
@@sharky1112 copy and paste, problem solved. Thanks much Sharky. 👍
Thanks for great tutorial!
In the extraction method tab I pressed detect read features button and it said that my drive isn't compatible with drive caches audio data feature. Should I turn that feature on or off?
You should have drive caches audio turned on if you want the log file to score 100% even if your drive cant cache audio, this is because scoring a log doesnt consider what drive you have and whether it can cache audio or not, the scoring method only cares if it was enabled or not
Wow! That was quick answer! Thanks for information!
@@sharky1112 Does that cache audio feature affect audio quality of the final rip?
@@mattisyrjaniemi323 no, it only changes how fast the rip is done. If your drive can cache audio as far as i know it will make the rip take less time, but thats about it
Immensely helpful.
Metadata issue. After ripping multiple CD's, album cover artwork displayed on my Eversolo player is for the last track ripped. Looking in "music" file, artwork for last ripped track is the only artwork saved. What to do?
EAC does not embed artwork to your files. It only creates a cover.jpg in the folder. Most music players recognize a single image in the directory as the cover art for the album. You may have to tweak settings to have this happen,
If your music player can't do this and you need the artwork embedded you will need to use a tag editing software or music player such as MP3Tag or Foobar2000 to embed said cover file into the individual files. It will then show up in your music player.
Generally,, the "how" to do this involves importing the files into the tag editor/music player, then highlighting them and right clicking, then selecting some sort of preferences option that leads to an "art" tab. Here, it will generally allow you to embed or de-embed artwork to the files and let you choose which artwork goes on them. You'd want to embed the cover art to them post rip via this method.
@@sharky1112 WOW! Thank you for the time and effort you put into your thoughtful response Sharky. I'm going to give it a go.
It worked! I used a Black Queen CD (Infinite Games) hehehhe. Super.
the "po-up" never showed up. I tried 1k CDs
Maybe you already had accuraterip enabled sometime ago?
I love the "beep after finished"!
I wonder why the manufacturer of the program does not provide such settings by default, since the program assumes that it should copy music from CDs without a scratch.
Followed the directions (my ver. was slightly different), changed everything you showed. Came out perfect. Thank You !
Hi, for me this is one of the best videos on youtube. Am I in trouble if my unit doesn't support the option "drive caches audio data" and I wanna obtain a 100% perfect copy of my CDs. Another question is: why does the option "drive is capable of retrieving C2 error information" must be turned off?
Hi,
In short: you can get 100% logs even if your drive can't cache audio data, just enable it anyways and disable C2 error correction.
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You have to enable 'drive caches audio data' and you have to disable 'drive is capable of c2 error correction' regardless of whether or not your drive is capable of doing either one. As long as you have things set that way you will receive a 100% log.
The reason you need to do this is due to the fact that there isn't a referencable list of drives capable of caching audio data so logcheckers that score your log simply check whether or not the setting is enabled. If it's disabled your score is deducted by 10%.
As for C2 error correction. ~15 years ago some members of the piracy community did some testing and found that C2 Error correction was faulty on some drives, so because there is no referencable list of drives that can handle C2 error correction the logchecker that determines whether or not you receive 100% will deduct 20% if its enabled.
Thx for aswering. So basically I ripped my CDs with the caching option turned off. The cue sheet says quality: 100%. Is the rip still perfect?@@sharky1112
Does anyone of the rippers have horrible problems with CT database recently? mI constantly have such error - track 12 has its nubmer bieng changed to 0 and if i do not spot it and re run the database get (sometimes need to do it few times or choose another DB entry) EAC always hangs when comes to ripping this mislabeled track...
Hi please let me know how I can create cue sheet for future cd burning thx
As noted in the video you choose Action -> Create CUE Sheet -> Multiple WAV files with Gaps (Non Compliant)
Do you do anything about the weird hyphens and apostrophes?
like replacing ’ by ' or - by -
They bother me but I think i'm just exagerating. Everytime I rip a batch of CDs I always find a detail to freak out about and have to redo it all over again.
Uh, you dont have to re-do anything though? You can always tag your rip after the rip is done. Manually tagging your files post-rip doesn't affect the quality of the files and it means nothing if the filenames/metadata doesn't match the .log file.
The .log file has the CRC32 value of each track which is impossible to change without modifying the raw waveform of the audio file itself so tagging can change and it will still match,.
@@sharky1112 Thanks for the reply! I'm curious to know if you personally, you replace those characters in the filenames or in the metadata or both, or if you just let them be.
@@NullVoid95 I only replace invalid characters that windows can't handle with full width replacements. The rest, I generally tag releases exactly how they appear on the release site/booklet with stylization so I don't have to go back and fix these things since I manually entered the one I wanted when tagging.
thank you so much!
Excellent tutorial
Is cd ripping for wav files also the same?
You would choose Action -> Test & Copy Selected Tracks - > Uncompressed instead.
thank you for the tutorial
Depends what you mean by "so long" , but if your rips are taking anywhere between 20 minutes and 2 hours that's expected. ~1h should be the average per rip.
The main reason why EAC takes so long is due to two specific settings:
Test & Copy which rips the CD twice, producing two seperate CRC values, the point of this setting is to verify that between two different rips, the audio EAC extracted was identical, if the data wasn't identical there'd be a "CRC Mismatch" (when the Test CRC and Copy CRC don't match) which would mean that something's off with the rip, or specific tracks in the rip.
Secure Mode reads each sector of your disc twice. Then, if there is any trouble reading a specific section of the disc - it will re-read those sectors multiple times until it's able to pull all of the data (this is error correction - that thing where the blocks light up red in EAC's ripping ETA window) so at minimum this takes 2x as long to rip a CD as oppose to something that only reads the sectors once, and if any error correction needs to be applied it will take much longer to finish the rip.
So TL;DR - Two settings meant to make your rip more accurate / verify that the rip was done accurately cause you to rip the CD 2 times and read the data on the disc ~4 times.
If you did away with error correction, cached audio, split tracks, compressing files and test & copy you could get EAC to rip discs in ~10 minutes or so. But the end result would not be very accurate.
@@sharky1112 okay so that's fine. For me it's usually around 1-1.5hour . Thank you!
Very late reply but does the version of flac.exe make any difference? Like, if it's really old vs a new version?
The newer the version the better the compression. It wouldnt change much else, though - some very old versions have issues converting wav to flac and cause the files to corrupt. Its a pretty niche issue, but if youre experiencing incomplete tracks that stop abruptly or tracks that wont play or your files not converting from wav to flac that would be why.
@@sharky1112 Right, thanks for the quick response. Gonna have to set it up again but I have my flac profile, at least. Pretty sure the offset on my DVD-RW is +6 too but may aswell check with a disc.
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Holy moly! This guy has ripped 4k CD's lol.
I feel like that information should be in the title lol.
Hello shaRky. Thank you very much for your guide. I followed it step by step and have been able to rip tens of CDs with no trouble!
However, I wanted to ask for your help with a couple of "problematic" CDs that have resisted. It is actually just two, but the issue is the same in both cases: they are new, original and unscratched CDs and I follow the procedure that I follow with my other successful rips. However when it starts ripping the first track, the drive slows down abruptly and the error corrector kicks in, it fills and then proceeds ripping; however, a couple seconds later the error corrector kicks in again, fills again, proceeds ripping for a couple of seconds and then the error corrector activates again. This process continues on and on, and the expected ripping time for the CD increases each time: 1 hour, 3 hours, 10 hours, ..., 30 hours. At one point I just give up and cancel the ripping.
I tried activating the burst mode for one of this problematic CDs and ripped it with the "Test & Copy" option for added security. What I noticed is that the CRCs matched in all tracks, except for the first one. Played the resulting files and my ears could not detect any defect so I just kept the files. It would be nice though to have that perfect rip 😉
What could be the problem and is there a solution available?
Thanks for your help! 👍
You may be able to successfully rip the first track with secure mode by going into your drive settings, enabling "spin up drive before extraction" then, de-selecting all but the problem track. Rip that track alone to see if that changes the results.
I would recommend ripping to a new directory or, moving your existing rip (or at least the existing track) to another directory. That way, if you are successful at ripping the track with no errors you can replace your errored copy with the newly ripped track. Your .log file will automatically append the second rip to it as long as you don't move it out of the directory. These rips are still considered perfect so long as you have the proof (via your log) that you did both rips.
Your only other option would be to try another drive if you have one available to see if you luck out at that drive being capable of reading the disc in question.
This situation is fairly common. Some drives are incapable of reading some CDs, or specific portions of specific CDs. In general, this is due to the data being stored in a very specific location on the disc that your drive is unable to read from.
There is also an abandoned form of copyright protection that abuses the fact that most drives fail to read data if it is pressed in a specific way, in a specific location.
You can unintentionally replicate this during the pressing process leaving you with CDs without copyright protection that also fail to rip on most drives. The only type of drives capable of reading these weak sectors are "2 sheep" drives, but the last time anybody cared about this sort of thing was the early 2000s, so drives found to be "2 sheep" are all ancient ATAPI/IDE models. web.archive.org/web/20050719080602/www.makeabackup.com/burners-sheep-2.html
@@sharky1112 Thank you very much for your response. I hadn't had the time to test your method and report the results.
In short, I tried activating the "Spin Up Drive Before Extraction" option and at first it seemed to work because it reached 20% of the problematic track without the error corrector getting activated, but then it got activated and the same pattern repeated: error corrector activated, some small progress, error corrector activated, some small progress, etc. I tried waiting up until progress was at around 40% (in the test phase) but the expected time was climbing north of the hour and a half, so I decided to stop. After this I ripped the whole album in burst mode and at the very last part of the log file, on the CTDB Status column, the problem track reported a "Differs in 1336 samples @" followed by several time positions. Again checked the audio, and could not hear anything so the files remained in my PC.
I guess I will try with a different drive in the future. Mine is a HL-DT-STDVDRAM GP96YW70 and, quite honestly, it has served me extremely well. Do you have a suggestion for a drive that could probably work better than mine?
Thanks again for your help.
@@TheMathFilesThere is no guarentee that the drive you buy will rip a specific problematic CD. For that reason I wouldn't recommend any one drive since you may be spending money for nothing.
Unless you are specifically trying to get a "100%" log to post this rip on a private tracker, having a few rips with a lower score is not a big deal. As long as they dont have any audible defects I personally wouldn't worry.
As far as drives go, when looking to buy a new one it's benefitial to reference the CD Drive Accuracy List of (year before) as that will give you a good idea of which drives perfrom better than others.
forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?48320-CD-Drive-Accuracy-2022
Then, you'd also want to plug these drives into www.daefeatures.co.uk/search?htoa=Yes to see if its able to rip HTOA tracks.
I think I noted in my last comment to you that the only other feature one has that is worth considering are the "2 sheep" rated drives, which are able to bypass a specific form of copyright protection that was used in the early 2000s. web.archive.org/web/20050719080602/www.makeabackup.com/burners-sheep-2.html all of these are IDE though.
@sharky112 when I rip to flac I want to have the track number to show as for eg. 1 not 01 but I thought I had it set that way so it only show at least 1 number. Am I missing something?
%tracknr1% will do that as opposed to %tracknr2% which shows 2 and %tracknr3% which shows 3.
For what it's worth, %tracknr2% is preferred because any release with more than 9 tracks will sort out of order, with track 11,12 etc appearing before tracks 2,3,4,5,6 etc.
@sharky1112 lol I just realised it might have been because I was ripping in aif instead. I also realised in the command part it just has %tracknr% not %tracknr1% oops maybe that why??
I get a Key Disc error re AccurateRip. No matter what I try, EAC won't populate name, track, title... Any suggestions?
EAC won't pull any metadata if you haven't setup the option to do that yet. Assuming you're still at the enabling of Accurip step you shouldn't have enabled EAC to auto-populate from ctdb.
Go to EAC Options -> General , then turn on "On unknown CDs automatically access online metadata database"
Alternatively, look in the top left corner of EAC, beneath the "EAC" "Edit" "Action" buttons are a few icons, one of them is two CDs with a +, you can use this button to make EAC grab data from the metadata providers you have setup.
It might prompt you to input an email, but the email doesn't actually matter. You can put whatever there and then hit OK. (Then re-click the button)
As for "a Key Disc error" , you'll haev to be more specific, but I imagine it's telling you that you need to use 3 Key Discs instead of 1, or that your CD in question isn't suitable as a Key Disc. In both cases, this happens when the disc in question has dozens of pressings, if you have other CDs available you should try using them instead. To get Accurip to turn on though, you'll have to put 3 seperate discs in, each time clicking the 'Configure Accuraterip" pop-up until it actually does so. It should say 1/3 key discs, 2/3 key discs then it'll turn on. You don't have to rip the discs, they just need to be detected by EAC and used to configure accuraterip.
should I be worried about the "all data of the current CD will be deleted" warning when accessing data from a metadata provider?
No, the prompt is to tell you the tags you currently have setup will be deleted. This does not delete data on the disc itself, only the metadata that you would be adding to the files.
@@sharky1112 thank you for the clarification
Hello! While configuring metadata options, the CueTools plugin doesn't seem to show up under metadata providers. Any idea why this is happening? I'm using EAC 1.6 if that helps.
No idea, besides potentially not selecting it when you first installed EAC as one of the plugins you want to have installed.
You can install it after the fact, see here: cue.tools/wiki/CTDB_EAC_Plugin
Seriously very good tutorial! I saved it for futur reference... Thanks
After each song I get an error message reading:
"The external compressor returned an error"
followed by the code in your comment with the metadata for my tracks inserted into it.
There seems to be an issue whilst writing the metadata to the flac file that is stalling the whole process.
UA-cam has been translating descriptions and removing certain characters from them for a while now - this has caused the command line parameters to sometimes be affected.
-8 -V -T "ARTIST=%artist%" -T "TITLE=%title%" -T "ALBUM=%albumtitle%" -T "DATE=%year%" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%tracknr%" -T "GENRE=%genre%" -T "PERFORMER=%albuminterpret%" -T "COMPOSER=%composer%" %haslyrics%--tag-from-file=LYRICS="%lyricsfile%"%haslyrics% -T "ALBUMARTIST=%albumartist%" -T "DISCNUMBER=%cdnumber%" -T "TOTALDISCS=%totalcds%" -T "TOTALTRACKS=%numtracks%" -T "COMMENT=%comment%" %source% -o %dest%
Here they are again, try pasting these in to see if that changes things.
If you are on EAC V1.4 or 1.5 specifically there is an issue with the section "%haslyrics%--tag-from-file=LYRICS="%lyricsfile%"%haslyrics% -T" which would need to be removed to function as normal.
If you already had exactly those parameters pasted in and you are not on 1.4 or 1.5 to have an issue with writing the lyrics metadata block, try updating your flac binary to a newer version. Some old versions (1.2.x and older) seem to have trouble encoding to flac from wav when called from EAC.
@@sharky1112 A pastebin link in the description would help.
A really great tutorial that's easy to follow and understand! Thank you for you work
Hello, I have followed your guide exactly but unfortunately I keep getting an error which is really bugging me. My log file is saying that all of my tracks are acurately ripped, but when I listen to one of the tracks there is a brief moment in the song (less than a second) where the audio just cuts out. I have played the cd back on its own and there is no issue at all. Any idea on how to solve this? Thanks.
Look in your log file on the track in question and see if either "Timing Problem(s)" "Suspicious Position(s)" or the Test CRC and Copy CRC of the track are different, these three errors would indicate there is a reasonable explination for the skip to be present.
If this is the case, there isn't anything that can guarentee a perfect copy but you can try the following:
If its suspicious positions/timing problems go to EAC -> Drive Options -> Offset/Speed -> disable 'lead in/lead out'
If its a CRC mismatch (the test and copy crc of the track are different) you could try:
Cleaning the cd then re-ripping
Re-ripping just the track with audible errors
Going into EAC Options - > Drive Options -> Spin up drive before extraction then re-ripping just the track with the error
Trying ripping the CD with a different cd drive
Things I would advise against, as there is no guarentee that it will stop crc mismatches. It might be a waste of money
Buying a new drive to rip the CD then trying w/ the new drive - It's seemingly random whether the drive will be capable of obtaining the damaged sectors, some can some can't and there is no way to know until you try
Buying a new copy of the CD - Some CDs are badly pressed and consistently produce CRC mismatches across multiple copies/drives
DIY/Commerically resurface the existing CD/new copy if there are visible scratches - may completely ruin the CD so keep that in mind
Thanks for the tutorial, Really of great help. One question: If I use another DVD/CD drive to rip, do I need to go through all the options again, or just those options under 'Drive'?
Youll need to activate accuraterip for the other drive, at most you may additionally have to change the gap detection method but besides that no, the rest of your settings will be saved. I would suggest saving profiles for each drive so that you dont have to change the settings a bit each time you switch drives