Configuring FLAC with EAC

[Grant Bearden]

Does anybody have a step by step of how to configure FLAC with EAC? I
have it almost completed, I think, but under EAC Options Directories
tab what do I put in the line where it says Use This Directory? I put
this C:\Program Files\Exact Audio Copy\, is this right? I have searched
the web, but I don't think the info I got is right. Also how about step
by step on how to use the software to convert FLAC to Wave Files after
all the settings are right?
HELP!!
Grant

[John Robinson-2]

On 29/04/2008 03:14, Grant Bearden wrote:
> Does anybody have a step by step of how to configure FLAC with EAC? I
> have it almost completed, I think, but under EAC Options Directories
> tab what do I put in the line where it says Use This Directory? I put
> this C:\Program Files\Exact Audio Copy\, is this right?

Probably not; it should be set to wherever you want your ripped audio
files to end up; here I have it set to a directory I created myself,
C:\Media\music

> I have searched
> the web, but I don't think the info I got is right. Also how about step
> by step on how to use the software to convert FLAC to Wave Files after
> all the settings are right?

EAC rips to WAV first then converts second; you're probably better off
just keeping your WAV files in the first place, so look in
EAC->Compression Options->External Compression and make sure the "Delete
WAV after compression" option is unticked.

> HELP!!

Hope this helps!

Cheers,

John.

[fbmaxwell]

It should be set to C:\Documents and Settings\{your user ID here}\My
Documents\My Music\

The filename should be set to "%D\%C\%N. %T"

 

That will put all of your music under the "My Music" directory with
subdirectories of artist, followed by albums, followed by tracks.

 

Regards,

  Fred

 

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Subject: [eac] Configuring FLAC with EAC

 

Does anybody have a step by step of how to configure FLAC with EAC? I
have it almost completed, I think, but under EAC Options Directories
tab what do I put in the line where it says Use This Directory? I put
this C:\Program Files\Exact Audio Copy\, is this right? I have searched
the web, but I don't think the info I got is right. Also how about step
by step on how to use the software to convert FLAC to Wave Files after
all the settings are right?
HELP!!
Grant

 



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[Lin Sprague-2]

On 29 Apr 2008 at 2:14, Grant Bearden wrote:

> Does anybody have a step by step of how to configure FLAC with EAC?

Here are my settings:

http://home.comcast.net/~esionder/temp/EACcompression.png

The full FLAC command line is:

-6 -V -T "artist=%a" -T "title=%t" -T "album=%g" -T "date=%y" -T
"tracknumber=%n" -T "genre=%m" %s

> I
> have it almost completed, I think, but under EAC Options Directories tab
> what do I put in the line where it says Use This Directory?

I like to have it prompt me for a location each time, but you can set
it to wherever you want to store your music. That would probably NOT be
the program directory, however.

> Also how about step by step on how to use the software to convert
> FLAC to Wave Files after all the settings are right?

I don't know. I don't use EAC for this function; instead I use FLAC
Frontend, or Trader's Little Helper, or FLAC from the command line.

[yahoo42]

>On 29 Apr 2008 at 2:14, Grant Bearden wrote:
>
>The full FLAC command line is:
>
>-6 -V -T "artist=%a" -T "title=%t" -T "album=%g" -T "date=%y" -T
>"tracknumber=%n" -T "genre=%m" %s

That is way wrong... With FLAC having had -8 sped up and witht he
speed of current computers, there is no reason to sacrifice
compression for seconds of speed savings.

-8 -A tukey(0.25) -A gauss(0.1875) -b 4096 -V -T "artist=%a" -T
"title=%t" -T "album=%g" -T "date=%y" -T "tracknumber=%n" -T "genre=%m" %s

That woks so much better. And compressed better then standard -8.

Jon


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[Lin Sprague-2]

On 29 Apr 2008 at 17:02, yahoo42@... wrote:

> That woks so much better. And compressed better then standard -8.

I don't consider it to be "way wrong". It works just fine, thank you.

I find that some players don't properly read tags in files that are
compressed to level 8. And the saving in size in miniscule, not even
worth considering. I prefer to stick to level 6.

[yahoo42]

At 05:44 PM 4/29/2008, you wrote:

>On 29 Apr 2008 at 17:02,
><mailto:yahoo42%40comcast.net>yahoo42@... wrote:
>
> > That woks so much better. And compressed better then standard -8.
>
>I don't consider it to be "way wrong". It works just fine, thank you.
>
>I find that some players don't properly read tags in files that are
>compressed to level 8. And the saving in size in miniscule, not even
>worth considering. I prefer to stick to level 6.

I do consider it silly to use -6 when -8 works fine. Any player that
cannot read the tags is poorly written. None of the players I use
including my Rio Karma has an issue.

-8 -A tukey(0.25) -A gauss(0.1875) -b 4096 -V -T "artist=%a" -T
"title=%t" -T "album=%g" -T "date=%y" -T "tracknumber=%n" -T "genre=%m" %s

that works very well and the space savings is worth it. Though if you
insist on using -6, use my string and replace -8 with -6. But until I
find -8 doesn't work, I'm sticking with it.

Jon



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