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A Ripping Guide For EAC

This document provides instructions for configuring Exact Audio Copy (EAC) software to produce perfect (100%) rips of audio CDs. Key steps include: 1. Setting EAC extraction, drive, and encoding options such as using FLAC compression at level 8, filling missing samples with silence, and normalizing tracks. 2. Checking and correcting any track names obtained from online databases. 3. Ripping the audio CD tracks either as a single WAV file or as separate WAV files along with a CUE sheet, then compressing to FLAC.

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A Ripping Guide For EAC

This document provides instructions for configuring Exact Audio Copy (EAC) software to produce perfect (100%) rips of audio CDs. Key steps include: 1. Setting EAC extraction, drive, and encoding options such as using FLAC compression at level 8, filling missing samples with silence, and normalizing tracks. 2. Checking and correcting any track names obtained from online databases. 3. Ripping the audio CD tracks either as a single WAV file or as separate WAV files along with a CUE sheet, then compressing to FLAC.

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How to configure EAC for a perfect (100%) rip

Setting up Exact Audio Copy

You may download the latest version of EAC from:


http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/

� If your machine has SCSI hardware, and/or built in CD burner, you may need
Adaptec's ASPI -
http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/speed/software_pc/aspi/aspi_v470_exe.htm

� If you have Firewire or a USB/USB2 external burner you may use Nero's ASPI -
http://www.nero.com/enu/index.html
(copy this file to the %SystemRoot%system32 or put it in the EAC's directory).

EAC produces a number of files whose names differ only by their extension. It's
strongly recommended that you tell Windows (in Folder Options) not to hide
file extensions.

Required Settings:

menu Action

� Insert a CD and press F4 (Detect Gaps).


� Append Gaps To Previous Track (Default): Selected

IMPORTANT. If you see TWO lines of Leave Out Gaps, you have a faulty installation
of EAC. REINSTALL.

menu EAC > EAC Options... (F9)

Extraction tab:

� Fill up missing offset samples with silence: Checked


� No use of null samples for CRC calculations : Unchecked
� Synchronize between tracks: Checked
� Delete leading and trailing silent blocks: Unchecked
� Skip track extraction on read or sync errors: Checked if you want to save time.
� Error recovery quality: High

General tab:

� On unknown CDs, * select automatically access freedb database


� Use language: English or Spanish selected

Tools tab:

� Retrieve UPC/ISRC codes in CUE sheet generation: Unchecked


� Use CD-Text information in CUE sheet generation: Checked
� Create '.m3u' playlist on extraction: Checked
� Automatically write status report after extraction: Checked
� Activate beginner mode, disable all advanced features: Unchecked

Normalize tab:

� Normalize: Unchecked (important!)

Filename tab:
� Naming Scheme: %N %T
� Various Artists Naming Scheme: %N %A - %T
(Do not use the file naming scheme to define folder names. This will cause problems
with the cue sheet and playlist.)

menu EAC > Drive Options... (F10)

Extraction Method tab:

� Secure mode (NOT Paranoid, Synchronized or Burst mode!)

� Drive has 'Accurate Stream' feature: Checked


� Drive caches audio data: Checked
� Drive is capable of retrieving C2 error information: Unchecked >>
(Explanation:
Do Not Check: Drive is capable of retrieving C2 error information. WHY?
Audio-CDs have two layers of error-correction: C1 (first layer) and C2 (second
layer). Both are done by the hardware itself, if a C1 error cannot be corrected
it is passed to the second stage (C2) and the drive tries to correct it here. Since
there are lots of (corrected) C1-errors, the drive just silently corrects
those and most drives cannot even report C1 (why flood the user with messages of
errors, when they are 100% corrected?). C2-errors are divided into three
sub-types:
E12 = one bit defective, 100% correctable
E22 = two bits defective, 100% correctable
E32 = three or more bits defective, no correction possible
So it would make sense for a drive to only report the E32 (uncorrectable) C2-
errors? Yes, but unfortunately this depends on the manufacturer of the drive.
Some drives report all C2-errors, some different combinations of them. Since we
don't know which drive reports which types, the C2-feature is useless,
because it might give false positives.
Another reason why C2 is useless: some CDs are intentionally contaminated with C2-
errors by the manufacturer. A normal CD-player does neither read nor recognize
C2, only a computer does. This is a subtle way of obstructing copying by computers.
Since we have no way determining, whether the C2 is real (tiny, invisible
speckle of dust, micro-scratch, etc.) or intentional, we would also get false
positives.
Concluding: deactivate the C2 error-recognition feature on your DAE software (DAE =
Digital Audio Extraction).)

Offset/Speed tab:

� Use read sample offset correction: Selected

� Please check and/or test your offset!


You may look for your drive's offset here:
http://www.accuraterip.com/driveoffsets.htm

Nothing found? Check the offsets manually,


here's a tutorial:
http://users.fulladsl.be/spb2267/offsets/offsets.htm

� Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out: Unchecked >> (checked only if retail CD is
over 80:00 min.)
� Allow speed reduction during extraction: Checked
� CD-Text Read capable drive: Checked

Gap Detection tab:


� Gap/Index retrieval method: this depends on your drive, you need to try which
method works best/fastest for you.
� Detection accuracy: Secure (best) or Accurate selected

Encoding/tagging with EAC

Download the FLAC codec and frontend from


http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html
OR download just the FLAC codec (most people will want the 32-bit .exe) here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13478&package_id=12675
Do not use alternative codecs such as Flake.

All below are EXAMPLE settings!

menu EAC > EAC Options (F9) > Tools tab:

� On extraction start external compressors queued in the background: Checked


� Use [ 1] simultaneous external compressor thread(s)
� Do not open external compressor window: Checked (leave it unchecked for
debugging)

First make sure that: menu EAC > Compression Options (F11) > ...

� Offset tab / Use Offset Correction for encoding and decoding: Unchecked
(Don't confuse EAC's compression offset with the drive's read offset!)
� ID3 Tag tab / Everything: Unchecked

menu EAC > Compression Options (F11) > External Compression tab:

� Use external program for compression: Checked


� Parameter passing scheme: User Definied Encoder
� Use file extension: .flac
� Program, including path, used for compression: specify path to flac.exe
� Additional commandline options:

Compression level 6 or higher is recommended.


The following example is appropriate if you're using level 8 compression:
-8 -V -T "ARTIST=%a" -T "TITLE=%t" -T "ALBUM=%g" -T "DATE=%y" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%n"
-T "GENRE=%m" -T "COMMENT=EAC FLAC -8" %s

� Bitrate: doesn't matter


� Delete WAV after compression: Checked (or leave unchecked - wavs won't be
deleted)
� Use CRC check: Checked
� Add ID3 Tag: Unchecked (FLAC has own tags)
� High quality/low quality: doesn't matter

Remember to press shift-F6 (not F6) when ripping, otherwise EAC will not
compress/tag!
Also remember not to close EAC immediately after ripping, look at status bar: the
last track might still be compressing.

FLAC frontend (not required if encoding with EAC)

Download the FLAC codec and frontend from


http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html
Do not use alternative codecs such as Flake.
Required FLAC frontend Settings:

� Level: 6 or higher (Level 8 is recommended)


� Verify: Checked (the only checked option)
� Replaygain: Unchecked (be sure to do so)
� If set, click Encode (when encoding is done you could make Fingerprint
additionally)
If you don't/can't use the Windows-only flac frontend you can create the
fingerprint file on the commandline:
metaflac --with-filename --show-md5sum *.flac >fingerprint.txt

Ripping and .cue creation

� Check and edit any track names obtained from the internet.

The association of an extracted single-wav image with its proper cuesheet does
always rebuild an exact, 1:1 image of the audio CD. Therefore the easiest and
savest way to create a perfect, 1:1 image of the original disc is to choose from
the 'Action' menu one of the following possibilities:
� Test & Copy image & create CUE sheet uncompressed
and Encode to flac later (recommended).

� Alt+F7 (Copy image & create CUE sheet uncompressed)


and encode to flac later.

� Alt+S (Create CUE sheet single WAV file) and


� Shift+F7 (Copy range compressed).

If you prefer to extract to separate tracks instead of a single-wav image, follow


these steps:
1. Put in the CD. :)
2. F4 (Detect Gaps).
3. F3 (Test Gaps On Silence). If the first track has "no gap" or it's 100% silent,
skip to step 9.
4. Select just track 1.
5. Alt-X (Copy Selected Tracks Indexed-Based). Retry if there are errors.
6. Rename the log "Pregap.log" .
7. Delete the track starting with the name 01.01 .
8. Encode and rename the remaining track "00 - Pregap.flac" . Tagging this small
file is optional.

9. Check and edit any track names obtained from the internet.
10. Ctrl-a (select all tracks).
11. EAC > Menu Action > Create CUE Sheet, Multiple WAV Files With Gaps...
(Noncompliant).
12. Shift-F6 (Test & Copy Selected Tracks) (without Shift, if encoding later)
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