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: th-cam.com/video/fZLC90A0nOM/w-d-xo.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!
@@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 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!!!
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)
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 TH-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 ^^
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!!
What happens when you use the manual option to lookup metadata? (theres an icon with two cds and an orange plus button found in the top left which does this) If you're able to manually look things up then you mightve disabled it by accident, go to EAC Options -> General -> enable "on unknown cds automatically access online metadata database" If you're not able to look things up manually you might have a firewall preventing you from accessing ctdb or, the PC you're using no longer has internet access and you didnt notice since you only use it for ripping or something
@sharky1112 PC has internet. Same thing happens after disabling firewall. The CTDB lookup pops up automatically, but quickly closes and does nothing. When I go to the Cuetools download page, I get an error. Could it be that their servers are down? Any way I can be sure of their website status?
@@henryjimenez3227 What you're describing usually happens when ctdb finds only one result, since there's only the one result it closes the selection screen and tags the files with that result. Is that whats happening? Their website and server are still up right now as well.
Excellent tutorial and right to the point. I don't need to know how a washing machine works, as long as my clothes are clean. You explained enough for me. Thank you greatly.
amazing guide. thanks so much. for some reason, i needed 3 CDs to get AccurateRip to configure properly. thank God i already had a decent CD collection to get that working.
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!
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
Best tutorial ever! I watched the entire video and I don't even have any of that software downloaded. I will re-watch this again when I get around to installing the software and burning some CDs.
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.
I have always used EAC. These days I usually just buy albums off of Qobuz and burn my own discs. But sometimes I like the older discs and rip them from the library. I think EAC produces more accurate results than other tools because of the way it rips (in blocks) vs doing a burst pass and comparing it against the AR database or comparing 2 burst passes' checksum.
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.
3:47 I'm just getting a pop up that says CD information & all fields are blank? Why am I not getting the "Configure Accurate rip" popup? Tried many CDs
Few possibilities, 1) You are not connected to the internet/EAC doesn't have access to the internet 2) You have 'beginner mode' enabled, to see if you do go to EAC Options -> Tools > untick "beginner mode" at the bottom if its enabled. 3) You've used EAC in the past or use(d) dBpoweramp and configured Accurip intentionally/unintentionally back then. The Accurip result is stored in a specific registry key that is shared between programs and persists even if you uninstall either one. To confirm this, you can go to EAC -> Drive Options -> Offset/Speed , if the top half of the screen is greyed out and you can enable "Use accuraterip with this drive" then, its already configured.
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.
At 11:08 I clicked “Detect Read Features” button and after a while Accurate Stream automatically became checked but grayed out, second option with cache was unchecked, and third one with errors thing was checked. Should I proceed with the detected options or manually set them to reproduce your settings?
Manually set them to what I recommended. Assuming part of your goal is a "100% log" setting these the way you have it now your logs will score 70%, -10% for defeat audio cache and -20% for C2 Error correction. It's why I didn't mention to detect your features and instead just set them up exactly how I had it.
@@sharky1112 thank you! What do you think about my other question, not sure if you seen it. Until now I ripped using Sony Media Center (it’s a Sony walkman) and resulting flac file (one of them) is same kB vbr (950kb vbr) as same song flac ripped with eac. I’m finding Sony Media Center easier to use, and also spent many hours ripping with it, is the EAC flac quality better than Sony Media Center? Both flacs are 950kb vbr, does that mean same quality?
@@justme7920 Bitrate is not indicative of quality. Only three programs are able to make a perfect copy of your CD. EAC (Windows) X Lossless Decoder (Mac) and Whipper (Linux). Sony Media Center is no exception, it does not create perfect copies. I'm sure it's faster to use another program than one of these three, but there are reasons for that. EAC has multiple settings that cause the rip to take longer in order to verify accuracy & corect any possible errors. Test & Copy rips the CD twice, when error correction occurs EAC will re-read the sectors on your cd multiple times until it is able to obtain the damaged data, if it can't you'll get a "Read/Sync Error" which will show up as either "suspicious positions" or "CRC Mismatch" on the log file, showing you that your rip is not perfect. Your CD taking 90 minutes (as per your other comment) will be due to Test & Copy making it take 2x as long + it having some minor damage which needs error correction to solve, so the speed is normal. Audibly speaking, a rip from any random software and one from EAC will likely not sound different unless there are errors present. If the CD is brand new and rips perfectly fine, they should both sound the same. The point of this guide, and the point of using EAC is to have both a bit-perfect copy of your CD, and to create a 100% log file, both of which are not needed for everybody and, if you don't care about it being perfect and are just concerned with it sounding listenable, you can use a different program.
@@sharky1112 my cd’s are in excellent to new condition. I only care in getting the best listening experience. You’re saying if cds are new they should sound the same, but if any wear EAC will make better sounding flacs?
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 TH-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.
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.
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
@10:58 What if "Detect Read Features" turns on "Drive is capable of retrieving C2 error information" for you? I also tested it with a scratched CD and it did indeed return C2 error information. Should it still be off?
So, in order to receive a 100% log you need certain settings enabled/disabled, one of which is c2 error information. It's set off because supposedly most drives have faulty c2 error correction, and instead of finding out which exact drives can perform well with it enabled, there is a blanket ban on it being enabled at all. TL;DR is that you can leave it on if you're okay with creating 80% (it's a 20% deduction) logs, + maybe having it perform poorly. What does 'poorly' entail? dunno, there's not much info on what exactly is wrong with it, but if you care about 100% logs you need it off.
@@sharky1112 Right on, thank you sir. I left it off assuming there was a probably a good reason and will continue to leave it off. I'm now 12 discs into ripping my collection to .flac, and making a terrifying list of things I currently have only as .mp3 and will need to re-buy. For the love of music, worth it.
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 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
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.
Hello shaRky ! 🙂 Thank you so much for your video ! At 0:47, we can see that the columns "title", "artist" & co are OK. I followed the explanations of your video, but in my case (Windows 7 + EAC 1.6), these columns are empty after the rip. Would you know why ?
Hey, sorry but Windows 7 can't display tags on FLAC files. The tags should still be there, and would display properly in a music player but not in windows explorer.
If you insist on typing them on a keyboard instead of copy and pasting them from the description of the video you can use alt codes, pressing alt + 63 will give you the full width ？for example. You can find a list of these alt codes here: www.alt-codes.net/
@sharky1112 yes that was my bad I didn't realise that they can be copy and pasted from the file in your description so thank you however I do have one further problem that I would love you to help me with and that is I am inserting a CD it's coming back saying it is compatible with accurate rip but it is then ejecting the CD and I'm getting an error message saying cannot find valid read command on your drive I have tried manually setting all of those options but none of them seem to work and I wondered what I'm doing wrong
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.
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
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.
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)
Excellent tuto! Thanks a lot! BUT the Accurate Rip pop-up box NEVER shows up. I've being trying with a dozen of CDs ! I don't understand the problem. Any help, please ?
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.
shaRky - Thank you for taking the time and effort to produce this excellent, easy to understand and follow, video tutorial on the setup and use of the EXACT AUDIO COPY to rip CDs into the FLAC format. Your instructions saved me from "most certain" headaches in setting up this program. Thanks again!
@@danielwilder7835 based on your other comment, I imagine this is because you're on beginner mode and probably skipped thru portions of the video (since you wouldn't be on beginner mode otherwise) EAC Options > Tools > the very last setting;l turn it off. Then, go to Compression Options > External Compression then follow from 13:23 make sure you have the exact path to your flac.exe set as well, since that is a common issue. (the ending has to edit with "/flac.exe" , it can't be the folder that flac.exe is located in.
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?
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.
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.
@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??
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
So I got to about 12:30 when I noticed that my options were not greyed out, I went through the video again, and upon doing the accuraterip configuration, it tells me to insert 3 key CDs What does this mean?
@@KitsuneNoNatsu So, in some cases your drive needs more than one CD. The only way to activate accuraterip for that drive would be to use 3 separate CDs that are all in the database. In some cases, even though it says 3 it might activate with 2. You dont have to rip the discs youre using to activate accurip, you just have to insert them and hit configure on the pop up at least. Also, your settings probably didnt save because they wont save if you close out of the settings tab without hitting "OK" (or maybe its "Apply")
@@KitsuneNoNatsu Assuming you have more than one CD, just try whichever you have around. Ideally, youd pick popular commercial releases from a year+ ago, the same as the one cd you needed. If you by chance have another drive it might activate with just the one CD if you want to try that out instead
@@sharky1112 Unfortunately all the CDs in the house are from 1950-1974 And over 400 of the fuckers What's the oldest release that can be used for Accurate Rip? If I can't do any of this, I guess I have to skip the accurate rip portion until I find a different way to do so
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.
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 have to insert a CD before starting EAC or it kicks the disc back out as it's looking for an AccurateRip disc which I believe it has already done so as the options in the list are grayed out as you describe in this video.
EAC doesn't care if the CD is in the accurip database or not. It will not make your disc eject itself if it isn't. I don't disagree that this is happening, and indeed the solution is to insert a disc into your drive prior to opening EAC, but this happens due to a unique combination of windows + user settings + optical drive and isn't explicitly an EAC issue.
Great explination and the ripping process works perfectly. One problem I have is that even though i got the album cover saved in the folder and it shows up in eac, the album cover is not attached to to .flac files. Is there a solution to add them to the songs so the album cover shows up when I play them on my music player?
EAC doesnt embed cover art. Most music players will recognize the "cover.jpg/png" in the folder as being the cover art for the whole album and display it for each file. You can also tell most of them to recognize anything with a specific image format as being the cover art. That said, if you want to embed cover art youll have to do so after the rip is done. Music players should give you the option to (foobar2000 and musicbee for example would let you in the artwork tab) but if yours doesnt you can check out mp3tag like the other commentor mentioned
This set up is not working for me on W10 usuing my Pioneer BDXL (Blu-ray writable drive). AccurateRip doesn't seem to be working at all for me. It seems when AccurateRip is initialised it instead ejects the disc and a message pops saying there's no disc and also an empty window pops up. I've tried using AccuratRip in all sorts of ways now and with very popular discs but nothing happens except the aforementioned.
Hey, sorry for the late response. I asked around to see if anyone had experienced what you had and the only solution anyone noted was closing EAC, putting the CD into the drive then re-opening EAC with the disc already inside the drive. I dont know if you already tried to do this, but if not you should. If you have, I'm sorry but I have no clue what else to try.
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
Great tutorial,thank you. CUE ToolsMetadata Plugin v2.1.6 provides no cover/album art option for certain CD’s, how can i include one from either another program or my own/jpg file?
Just copy the cover art into the output folder/whatever folder you';re planning on moving the output audiofiles to. If you're talking about embedding cover art specifically, EAC can't do that. You would have to use a tag editing software or music player with that capability like MP3Tag or foobar2000 after the rip is done.
Great Guide but I have some question. First: What if I don't know if my drive supports Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out? I read in another guide that You need to temporarily unceck "use AccurateRip" and click "Detect read sample offset correction." and thn set the overread option depending the result you get. But do I need to somehow re configure Accurate Rip again or simply check the ""use AccurateRip" option back again? Second question - I saw soem rips that were in form of single big flac file with cue sheet having the information of all the tracks and gaps to use when burning a CD-R. As I understood Your guide would result in having separate flac files for each track. Where can I change it so I get a one large file for whole album?
Leave overread into lead-in/lead-out unchecked if you don't know if your drive supports it. Turning off accuraterip (the checkmark for "Use accuraterip with this drive") doesn't require you to re-setup accuraterip. You just need to click the checkmark again. You can rip split tracks back to a CD-R, the CUE sheet you're using in the video saves all of the gap information. If you want to rip files to an unsplit file, known as a 'range rip. You'd use Actions > Copy Range. You may as well also choose "Uncompressed" because you'll need the file(s) to be WAV in order to burn it back to CD-R. Range rips aren't accepted on private music trackers, or score less than split tracks if accepted, so keep that in mind if you planned on sharing the files specifically.
@@sharky1112 Is "test and copy range" and "test and copy image" basically the same? Also, when copying image it will create cuesheet autmatically - will this cue be ok to burn with proper indexing or do I have to create this "non compliant" cue shett separately as well?
@@jakubbason3122 I believe using Test & Copy Image will generate a CUE sheet while Test & Copy Range will not. I don't know whether the CUE will be sufficient, nobody I know uses either option. Non-compliant CUE sheets will work with EAC and Burrrn but nothing else will read them, if you're planning on burning the CD with something else than EAC or Burrrn you'll be better off with the one that is automatically generated w/ the range rip. But either way I don't know if it will contain the proper indexes/gaps. Here's a guide to burning w/ EAC in case it interests you: docs.google.com/document/d/1f0ZtHC8phVccLWc-81gNNpy1HARasN07B3j0otwS0cI/edit?usp=sharing
Well, EAC web site says "Flac doesn’t support compressing files on a network share (e.g. \\computer\share). In this case you will receive an error when EAC tries to compress to Flac. As workaround you could map the network share to a drive letter and use the drive letter as target for your extractions within EAC." Was trying to write to .flac file on NAS share. When I mapped this location to a "letter drive" (e. g. Y:\Music\...) no error produced.
I had this all set up and working but I had to reinstall it and I'm having issues could you please help. I'm at the External Compression tab where I have to fill in the Program, including path, used for compression tab. For some reason I'm not getting a browse search box to pick what to insert and I can't figure out what to put in to get it to work. I'm kind of computer illiterate.
Unfortunately this is entirely user specific and there'd be no way for me to know where your flac.exe is located. By default, if you installed flac with EAC it should be located at "C:\Program Files (x86)\Exact Audio Copy\Flac\flac.exe" so pasting that without quotes *might* work. Use windows search or an indexer like voidtools 'search everything' to look for flac.exe on your PC. Once you've found where it's located, left click in the address bar within your windows explorer (where it says stuff like "This PC > Local Disk (C:)" etc) then press ctrl + c to copy the path. Paste this into EAC then add "\flac.exe" to the end of the path. This will point it to the executable.
@@sharky1112 I actually just noticed that Exact Audio Copy won't allow me to copy the whole algorithm you have in the info. It is limiting the characters and won't put the whole thing in. Do you happen to know if I should redownload the whole program?
@@theBtotheJ23 I've never heard of this happening before, you could try re-downloading but idk if that will fix it. You don't have to put the command-line parameters, but not doing so will cause your files not to be tagged properly. That's about it
@@sharky1112 It's odd. All the pop up windows that I open for each settings tab seems to be minimized a little. I can't scroll or get to certain ones. And the pages that should have a browse button, like in the external compression tab, aren't there. Either that or the window is cutting off the button. This sucks I really wanted to set this back up.
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.
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
I'm still having trouble with getting flac files, mines are still saving as wav. I've been through and checked everything and can't see anything obvious. When it's ripping it says eg, Copy track 2 Reading track Copy ok Compress track by external program It does same for all tracks then says something like complete when done and I click OK, however they are still wav files.??
Only explanation is that you didn't setup the compression options correctly, more specifically if your options look the same as mine in the video the thing you wouldn't notice is incorrect because its too long to just view at first glance is the command-line (that thing you pasted in) Make sure to copy it exactly: -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% The reason why this needs to be done is because without "%source% -o %dest%" users aren't able to create FLAC files. Heres a screenshot of my compression options tab i.imgur.com/FZTkHeX.png though you could just go back and look in the video, the only other thing that could be the issue is that your path to FLAC is incorrect, make sure that it points directly to the .exe itself so the final part of the path includes "\flac.exe" or "\FLAC.EXE" if it only points to the folder where flac is it will sometimes not work.
@@ignaciomariacoccia8168 It's likely that you're on EAC V1.4 which has a number of bugs, one being this encoder issue use: -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%" -T "ALBUMARTIST=%albumartist%" -T "DISCNUMBER=%cdnumber%" -T "TOTALDISCS=%totalcds%" -T "TOTALTRACKS=%numtracks%" -T "COMMENT=%comment%" %source% -o %dest% should fix the error.
I know you recommend using "Secure mode " while using "Test and copy", and then along with the "Accuraterip" and the "Quetools" plugin to both also verify the accuracy of the CD rip. Though doing test CD's, I see it wants to take like an hour and a half to rip a CD that way running something like .9X speed. I noticed if I did all of the above but instead changed it to "Burst mode" that it would take around 30 minutes based on my test disc. The question is, is using "Secure mode" really worth it with having to go an extra hour per disc rip time over "Burst mode"? It's my understanding that using "Test and copy" will help verify the rip, and then using "Accuraterip" and "Quetools" both each verify the rip. And if all three of those checks say the rip is accurate, then wouldn't it be nearly a 100% chance that the rip was accurate even if using "Burst mode"? Or is it strongly recommended to use "Secure mode" anyways and just have to go an extra hour per disc rip time? Thanks.
Secure mode takes longer because it reads every sector twice, burst mode is inaccurate and can lead to inaccurate rip results. You are welcome to use burst mode if you are unwilling to wait the extra duration of time that secure mode takes but, keep in mind that the rips can no longer be verified as accurate. The only time people use burst mode is to rip problem CDs that are unable to rip on secure mode, they take the accuracy loss to at least get an almost perfect copy of the CD. Burst mode deducts 20% from the log score in case you're wondering about that as well.
@The Fantom Convoy I did do some tests on brand new CD's where I did "Secure" mode and then I did "Burst" mode and got the same check sums for both. So I'd guess you can get "accurate" with Burst mode at least in some cases. Though I have "Accurate Stream" selected for Secure even though my drive manufacturer says it doesn't support it though EAC says it does. I pretty much ripped my CD's via "Secure" mode. But I did have some old scratched CD's that didn't want to rip at some songs, and so I switched to "Burst" mode and was able to get some of those fully ripped that way. Some were gonners though.
@The Fantom Convoy Yeah, I plan to replace those scratched CD's at some point so I can rip it in "Secure" mod. But I have a lot of CD's to get as I don't like the "Remasters" stuff. I have to generally get the original release of the CD from back in the day, or sometime the German or Japan release as some like those better. There are very few remasters that I think are decent. Like some of the Black Sabbath stuff that aren't bricked out or the wav pattern touching the edges. Question, I've ripped some CD's in "Secure" mod that the CD are newish. And then I get a message at the bottom of the log on some that I guess there may be some differences and that I can use Quetools to repair even though it says everything was 'Accurate" other than a few samples. Is it best to just ignore that, or best to have Qutools repair? As I have no idea which is the better way as I have no reference if there is anything wrong with my rips. What do you normally do when that happens?
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
Great video thanks! My CDs with these settings are taking as you said around an hour or so but one has me baffled. It's Bryan Adams Waking Up the Neighbours and it's in great condition but EAC said 8 hours left and after 2 hours and only 4 out of the 15 songs completed it said 14 hours remaining. Something is odd with that disc taking so long and not a single surface scratch. 🤔
Some drives are incapable of reading specific sectors on specific CDs, so even if the CD is/was brand new this can happen. Generally, this doesn't happen with pressed CDs (and I imagine the Bryan Adam's release is not a CD-R) and it's usually not going to affect all of the tracks on the disc, only a few or a single one. That said, the only possible fixes for this are going into your Drive Settings and changing it from "Secure" to "Burst Mode", this will no longer create an accurate rip; but burst mode will ignore any data it can't read instead of spending hours re-ripping it, the end result might be a copy that sounds perfectly fine, but usually in cases like this there would be audible distortion or skips in the areas where burst mode skipped over data. Or, individually ripping each track (by de-selecting all but one track and then running the test & copy selected tracks command) If you don't want to use burst mode and individual track ripping doesn't get things to rip, there is: 1) try a different drive 2) buy a new cd 3) DIY or commercially resurface/buffer the disc (if damaged, not applicable here) I wouldn't recommend buying a new disc since it's likely it won't rip either, as if you end up buying a pressed CD from the same batch (likely) it would be indentical and presumably your drive can't handle reading it. The ETA is determined by the speed at which you're ripping the current track, so if EAC initially encounters a lot of error correction and thus the speed is exceptionally slow (because error correction requires re-ripping sectors over and over again) the ETA will increase. The ETA will decrease if you suddenly stop using so much error correction and get to parts of the disc that your drive is capable of reading with no issues. (or increase even more if it gets worse)
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.
What do you mean? Test and Copy selected tracks means that it will perform a rip that utilizes the test and copy function in eac. Aka ripping two copies of the cd to compare against each other in order to confirm the rip was done correctly.
@@papiloco1530 the files are initially ripped in wav then converted to flac, are they still wav after the rip finishes? Also, if you used "test and copy selected tracks -> uncompressed" then it will not rip in flac, youd have to use "compressed" in order for it to be ripped in flac.
Thanks for the great video. Mine does not come up with any album artwork on the bottom of the Metadata Lookup popup (this popup loads for a really long time), nor does it show anything on the right on the main screen. I tried a few CD's. My CUETools Options screen has more options than yours I guess cause they have updated it, but the options are similar. Any advice? Edit: I switched the provider to MusicBrainz, will that cause any issues?
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?
Very handy guide, thank you for this. I don't create cue files, b/c I'd rather use the sub-directory features instead. Also I don't plan to burn CDs anymore. I'll only keep a log file for archiving purpose. However, does skipping the "Detect gaps" step affect the content of the log file?
Yeah, if you dont detect gaps they wont be appended to the previous track and so the log will indicate as such. The gaps not being appended to the previous track would mean the final 2 seconds/beginning 2 seconds or so of the tracks will differ from if you were to play the actual cd in a cd player
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.
TH-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.
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.
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, I have been using EAC over the years and just started doing them correctly hopefully for the last time. I have a couple questions and used your guide step by step. I rip to .WAV files the only thing I have different is I have my file name as this %tracknr2% %title%. I rip CD's some are brand new with no defects and it is seldom I get 100 percent on each track sometimes I will get the odd 99% accuracy and it is always at the end of a random track not the last track issue people had years ago just a random track or it could even be 3 are at 99% and is always at the very end of the track. The other issue I have is in the .cue sheet after I detect gaps I make the cue sheet with gaps non compliant and when I go to play it back in VLC (It's the default for the .cue sheet) sometimes tracks 1 & 2 or other ones will be the same song as the previous track. I do have gaps in some tracks on many CD's and others it is just the first track. If I try to drag it into foobar it just says index error at a certain section, say error on index 27 can't read file. Now if I rip the cd as Test and copy image & create a .cue sheet it is one long wav file , it has all the correct gaps and it works fine in VLC and Foobar and the indexes are all correct in the notepad (i make a text copy to review what is in the cue file). So how come I only get 99 percent on the end of some tracks that are brand new (it is always at just the end of the track and when I do wav files separately with a cue sheet I usually have issues, while I don't when I rip it as an image or to be more exact 1 Long wav file? Thanks so much in advance.
> seldom I get 100 percent on each track sometimes I will get the odd 99% accuracy "100% Logs" have no association with the accuracy percentage for each track. This percentage fluctuates depending on how much error correction was applied to any given track, so if EAC required you to re-read a single sector once it would go down to 99.9% (which is very likely to happen, hence why getting 100% here is very close to impossible). A 100% log refers to a scoring system used by private trackers and some piracy communities to determine whether or not the rip was done correctly using the correct settings. You start at 100% and with each incorrect setting used you are then deducted a fixed amount. For example, if you don't use "Test & Copy" this is considered an audible deduction (because it can affect the audio of the files) and nets you -20%, so the highest a log can score at that point is 80%. Anyway, TL;DR is that the accuracy percentage under each track is a useless metric you shouldn't worry about. Secondly, noncompliant cuesheets are not supposed to work with VLC or foobar2000. Their purpose is to retain the gap information so that you can burn your files back to a CD and, in theory create a 1:1 copy of the original CD while doing so. There is a different type of cuesheet, the one that is used when creating image rips that is supposed to work with VLC/Foobar2000 because it's purpose is to split the image file/properly index each track. Of course if you generate a range rip/image rip and an accompanying cuesheet it's going to work in VLC/Foobar because it's supposed to - but that doesn't mean the noncompliant cuesheet is faulty. It's not supposed to work in either program. Also you're perfectly fine ripping to wav, but I hope you're fully aware that there is no difference in quality between either format. FLAC supports tagging and is up to 70% smaller than WAV while being identical in quality (as FLAC is a compressed lossless format meaning it is decompressed back to the original lpcm audiofile during playback, so they are bit identical at that point) so I wouldn't recommend using WAV unless you have a very specific niche like a piece of equipment/software that can't run with anything else...
@shaRky OK thanks, I assumed something is wrong with my non compliant cue sheet. So does the image wav file and cue sheet still work to do a bit perfect copy I got 100 percent in the log and saved one copy as text so I could read it and all the index gaps are in there as well. I do know you have to separate the tracks from the cue sheet if I wanted to make an exact duplicate of the disc. I haven't bothered yet, but someday I may have to if the disc goes bad with age. I did get one image file that was 99 percent, but it had to re read one section. And as far as flac goes, I use that too on my stereo system and I have 5tb hard drives so I'm sure my wave files will fit on there. I have the wave files as archives and use flac on same files for home stereo equipment. I've used both flac 0 and flac 5 but storage space isn't an issue. I have 2 of everything backed up so if a hard drive fails I have the other to make another copy of my backup. Redundancy and all.
Great walk-thru! I did have a follow-up question, not sure if it's already been asked and/or addressed. I wasn't able to get the Cover Art to show up, is there a workaround and any other suggestions that you can pass on to correct this issue? Thanks a bunch! :)
Show up in what sense? Embedded into the files? EAC can't do that. At most, it will create a cover.jpg/png file inside of the directory where you're ripping your files. So, the workaround would be if the metadata provider doesn't provide you with cover art, just google the release and drag the cover art you find into the folder where you're ripping your files.
The goal isnt to get uncompressed? Compression doesnt change the audio quality when it comes to lossless files. FLAC is a compressed lossless format, this is why we choose compressed (assuming you set FLAC in the compression options). If you choose uncompressed youd get WAV files which, while identical in sound will be up to 70% larger and unable to handle tagging.
i bought some cheap cd drive from amazon but then i had to return it after looking at it more cause it looked pre owned. when i plugged it in, it said the ID was 0 (next to adapter). i bought another copy after making sure the next one would be brand new of and it says 2 now. what does it mean? i didn’t uninstall eac so idk if it means anything important or whether it’ll affect anything. thanks 👍👍
The values pertain to the serial port order and drive number. in other words, where you plugged the drive in and how many other drives you have plugged in. Those values don't matter at all for ripping.
@@sharky1112 oh right thanks for clearing that up. also i followed the filename guide and the examples listed but i dont know how to get my various artist naming scheme to look like this (1-01) (1-02) in etc in front of the artist and title. i want the brackets next to them. how would i get that?
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
When I was using EAC on my wife's laptop it would rip the CD and all the songs would be in a folder with the album title. I put EAC on my PC and it rips all the songs and puts them in my destination folder but they are not all in a folder like before. What am I doing wrong?
EAC will generate a folder for you with a specific name if you tell it to. Chances are, you did not setup the "EAC Options -> Directories" and "EAC Options -> Filename" tabs to be an exact match to your first install. You can either go and copy the exact settings you used on your wifes PC or you can get a similar result by enabling "Use Various artist naming scheme" in the "EAC Options -> Filename" tab then in the box directly below, you would paste "%albumtitle%\%tracknr2%. %title%" without quotations.
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: th-cam.com/video/fZLC90A0nOM/w-d-xo.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?
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.
Awesome tutorial! Feels like I went from apprentice to tradesman in 20 minutes. Thank you for helping the audio community.
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 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!!!
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)
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 TH-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 ^^
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!!
17:04 CTDB lookup has stopped working for me. Any idea why? I have used EAC for about a year, and this had never happened.
What happens when you use the manual option to lookup metadata? (theres an icon with two cds and an orange plus button found in the top left which does this)
If you're able to manually look things up then you mightve disabled it by accident, go to EAC Options -> General -> enable "on unknown cds automatically access online metadata database"
If you're not able to look things up manually you might have a firewall preventing you from accessing ctdb or, the PC you're using no longer has internet access and you didnt notice since you only use it for ripping or something
@sharky1112 PC has internet. Same thing happens after disabling firewall. The CTDB lookup pops up automatically, but quickly closes and does nothing.
When I go to the Cuetools download page, I get an error. Could it be that their servers are down? Any way I can be sure of their website status?
@@henryjimenez3227 What you're describing usually happens when ctdb finds only one result, since there's only the one result it closes the selection screen and tags the files with that result. Is that whats happening?
Their website and server are still up right now as well.
@sharky1112 It started working again. No clue what happened. Might have been the servers. I appreciate the help.
Excellent tutorial and right to the point. I don't need to know how a washing machine works, as long as my clothes are clean. You explained enough for me. Thank you greatly.
I love the "beep after finished"!
amazing guide. thanks so much. for some reason, i needed 3 CDs to get AccurateRip to configure properly. thank God i already had a decent CD collection to get that working.
Thanks for including the command-line text. Tried a few different ones and this is the only one that successfully filled in the tags.
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!
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
Best tutorial ever! I watched the entire video and I don't even have any of that software downloaded. I will re-watch this again when I get around to installing the software and burning some CDs.
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.
Thank you for this tutorial, it's really over the direct and useful. Quality over the top.
I have always used EAC. These days I usually just buy albums off of Qobuz and burn my own discs. But sometimes I like the older discs and rip them from the library. I think EAC produces more accurate results than other tools because of the way it rips (in blocks) vs doing a burst pass and comparing it against the AR database or comparing 2 burst passes' checksum.
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.
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thank you so much for putting this together. Started Ripping my CD collection and so far all is going well
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 ^^
What an excellent tutorial. You nailed it. Thanks a million!
Followed the directions (my ver. was slightly different), changed everything you showed. Came out perfect. Thank You !
3:47 I'm just getting a pop up that says CD information & all fields are blank? Why am I not getting the "Configure Accurate rip" popup?
Tried many CDs
Few possibilities,
1) You are not connected to the internet/EAC doesn't have access to the internet
2) You have 'beginner mode' enabled, to see if you do go to EAC Options -> Tools > untick "beginner mode" at the bottom if its enabled.
3) You've used EAC in the past or use(d) dBpoweramp and configured Accurip intentionally/unintentionally back then. The Accurip result is stored in a specific registry key that is shared between programs and persists even if you uninstall either one. To confirm this, you can go to EAC -> Drive Options -> Offset/Speed , if the top half of the screen is greyed out and you can enable "Use accuraterip with this drive" then, its already configured.
Holly "all the info" Batman that was amazing thank you very much
Even a primary school kid can somehow understand these procedures. Thanks so much for the detailed information!
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.
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, 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.
At 11:08 I clicked “Detect Read Features” button and after a while Accurate Stream automatically became checked but grayed out, second option with cache was unchecked, and third one with errors thing was checked. Should I proceed with the detected options or manually set them to reproduce your settings?
Manually set them to what I recommended.
Assuming part of your goal is a "100% log" setting these the way you have it now your logs will score 70%, -10% for defeat audio cache and -20% for C2 Error correction.
It's why I didn't mention to detect your features and instead just set them up exactly how I had it.
@@sharky1112 thank you! What do you think about my other question, not sure if you seen it. Until now I ripped using Sony Media Center (it’s a Sony walkman) and resulting flac file (one of them) is same kB vbr (950kb vbr) as same song flac ripped with eac. I’m finding Sony Media Center easier to use, and also spent many hours ripping with it, is the EAC flac quality better than Sony Media Center? Both flacs are 950kb vbr, does that mean same quality?
@@justme7920 Bitrate is not indicative of quality. Only three programs are able to make a perfect copy of your CD. EAC (Windows) X Lossless Decoder (Mac) and Whipper (Linux). Sony Media Center is no exception, it does not create perfect copies.
I'm sure it's faster to use another program than one of these three, but there are reasons for that. EAC has multiple settings that cause the rip to take longer in order to verify accuracy & corect any possible errors.
Test & Copy rips the CD twice, when error correction occurs EAC will re-read the sectors on your cd multiple times until it is able to obtain the damaged data, if it can't you'll get a "Read/Sync Error" which will show up as either "suspicious positions" or "CRC Mismatch" on the log file, showing you that your rip is not perfect.
Your CD taking 90 minutes (as per your other comment) will be due to Test & Copy making it take 2x as long + it having some minor damage which needs error correction to solve, so the speed is normal.
Audibly speaking, a rip from any random software and one from EAC will likely not sound different unless there are errors present. If the CD is brand new and rips perfectly fine, they should both sound the same. The point of this guide, and the point of using EAC is to have both a bit-perfect copy of your CD, and to create a 100% log file, both of which are not needed for everybody and, if you don't care about it being perfect and are just concerned with it sounding listenable, you can use a different program.
@@sharky1112 my cd’s are in excellent to new condition. I only care in getting the best listening experience. You’re saying if cds are new they should sound the same, but if any wear EAC will make better sounding flacs?
This was an amazingly detailed tutorial!
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 TH-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.
Pls make more videos! You are so good! Best description
Incredible and clear tutorial.
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.
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.
@10:58 What if "Detect Read Features" turns on "Drive is capable of retrieving C2 error information" for you? I also tested it with a scratched CD and it did indeed return C2 error information. Should it still be off?
So, in order to receive a 100% log you need certain settings enabled/disabled, one of which is c2 error information. It's set off because supposedly most drives have faulty c2 error correction, and instead of finding out which exact drives can perform well with it enabled, there is a blanket ban on it being enabled at all.
TL;DR is that you can leave it on if you're okay with creating 80% (it's a 20% deduction) logs, + maybe having it perform poorly. What does 'poorly' entail? dunno, there's not much info on what exactly is wrong with it, but if you care about 100% logs you need it off.
@@sharky1112 Right on, thank you sir. I left it off assuming there was a probably a good reason and will continue to leave it off. I'm now 12 discs into ripping my collection to .flac, and making a terrifying list of things I currently have only as .mp3 and will need to re-buy. For the love of music, worth it.
Nice new gift. thanks! Onto ripping bad discs hopefully bring them back to better shape : )
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 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
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.
Hello shaRky ! 🙂
Thank you so much for your video !
At 0:47, we can see that the columns "title", "artist" & co are OK.
I followed the explanations of your video, but in my case (Windows 7 + EAC 1.6), these columns are empty after the rip.
Would you know why ?
Hey, sorry but Windows 7 can't display tags on FLAC files.
The tags should still be there, and would display properly in a music player but not in windows explorer.
@@sharky1112 Thank you so much for your answer ! 🙂
What shaRky said, but you can probably fix the issue with K-Lite Codec Pack or something so your system can recognize FLAC as an audio file.
Please explain how you get those special character replacements I don't understand how you type them in on the keyboard
If you insist on typing them on a keyboard instead of copy and pasting them from the description of the video you can use alt codes, pressing alt + 63 will give you the full width ？for example.
You can find a list of these alt codes here: www.alt-codes.net/
@sharky1112 yes that was my bad I didn't realise that they can be copy and pasted from the file in your description so thank you however I do have one further problem that I would love you to help me with and that is I am inserting a CD it's coming back saying it is compatible with accurate rip but it is then ejecting the CD and I'm getting an error message saying cannot find valid read command on your drive I have tried manually setting all of those options but none of them seem to work and I wondered what I'm doing wrong
A really great tutorial that's easy to follow and understand! Thank you for you work
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.
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).
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.
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!
Seriously very good tutorial! I saved it for futur reference... Thanks
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)
Excellent tuto! Thanks a lot! BUT the Accurate Rip pop-up box NEVER shows up. I've being trying with a dozen of CDs ! I don't understand the problem. Any help, please ?
Could be that you had it configured already sometime before.
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.
shaRky - Thank you for taking the time and effort to produce this excellent, easy to understand and follow, video tutorial on the setup and use of the EXACT AUDIO COPY to rip CDs into the FLAC format. Your instructions saved me from "most certain" headaches in setting up this program. Thanks again!
No problem, happy to help :)
@@sharky1112 mine is still ripping to .WAV , so annoying
@@danielwilder7835 based on your other comment, I imagine this is because you're on beginner mode and probably skipped thru portions of the video (since you wouldn't be on beginner mode otherwise)
EAC Options > Tools > the very last setting;l turn it off.
Then, go to Compression Options > External Compression then follow from 13:23
make sure you have the exact path to your flac.exe set as well, since that is a common issue. (the ending has to edit with "/flac.exe" , it can't be the folder that flac.exe is located in.
@@sharky1112 god it's taken me three hours to work this program out, nightmare... i didn''t skip, some of my gui is different to yours.
@@danielwilder7835 its only different because beginner mode is enabled, it hides all advanced settings (most of the ones you have to set)
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?
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.
Excellent guide and backup materials.
Best guide in internet, thank you.
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.
was looking for something like this for so long....great stuff
@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??
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.
I really appreciate the effort you put into making this tutorial, you did a fantastic job, thank you!
So I got to about 12:30 when I noticed that my options were not greyed out, I went through the video again, and upon doing the accuraterip configuration, it tells me to insert 3 key CDs
What does this mean?
It seems that my EAC settings did not save...for whatever reason, everything is set back to default
Nope, the options are still not greyed out, what am I supposed to do/use for the 3 key CDs then?
@@KitsuneNoNatsu So, in some cases your drive needs more than one CD. The only way to activate accuraterip for that drive would be to use 3 separate CDs that are all in the database. In some cases, even though it says 3 it might activate with 2.
You dont have to rip the discs youre using to activate accurip, you just have to insert them and hit configure on the pop up at least.
Also, your settings probably didnt save because they wont save if you close out of the settings tab without hitting "OK" (or maybe its "Apply")
@@KitsuneNoNatsu Assuming you have more than one CD, just try whichever you have around. Ideally, youd pick popular commercial releases from a year+ ago, the same as the one cd you needed.
If you by chance have another drive it might activate with just the one CD if you want to try that out instead
@@sharky1112 Unfortunately all the CDs in the house are from 1950-1974
And over 400 of the fuckers
What's the oldest release that can be used for Accurate Rip?
If I can't do any of this, I guess I have to skip the accurate rip portion until I find a different way to do so
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)
15:40 marks the end of the setup process.
Thanks a lot for the tutorial, very well done. All the important details and no fluff.
Hi please help me to find out why none of my cue shit don’t work I have always errors how i correct this thx
Describe what errors youre facing and what exactly you mean by dont work and ill try
Please let me know how to correct this kind of error
@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 👍
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
I have to insert a CD before starting EAC or it kicks the disc back out as it's looking for an AccurateRip disc which I believe it has already done so as the options in the list are grayed out as you describe in this video.
EAC doesn't care if the CD is in the accurip database or not. It will not make your disc eject itself if it isn't.
I don't disagree that this is happening, and indeed the solution is to insert a disc into your drive prior to opening EAC, but this happens due to a unique combination of windows + user settings + optical drive and isn't explicitly an EAC issue.
@@sharky1112 Thanks. Yes its odd as I need to insert a disc first then start EAC but after that I can put subsequent discs in with EAC already open.
Great explination and the ripping process works perfectly. One problem I have is that even though i got the album cover saved in the folder and it shows up in eac, the album cover is not attached to to .flac files. Is there a solution to add them to the songs so the album cover shows up when I play them on my music player?
I really like Mp3tag for further editing metadata of audiofiles. You could have a look at that.
EAC doesnt embed cover art. Most music players will recognize the "cover.jpg/png" in the folder as being the cover art for the whole album and display it for each file. You can also tell most of them to recognize anything with a specific image format as being the cover art.
That said, if you want to embed cover art youll have to do so after the rip is done. Music players should give you the option to (foobar2000 and musicbee for example would let you in the artwork tab) but if yours doesnt you can check out mp3tag like the other commentor mentioned
This set up is not working for me on W10 usuing my Pioneer BDXL (Blu-ray writable drive). AccurateRip doesn't seem to be working at all for me. It seems when AccurateRip is initialised it instead ejects the disc and a message pops saying there's no disc and also an empty window pops up. I've tried using AccuratRip in all sorts of ways now and with very popular discs but nothing happens except the aforementioned.
Hey, sorry for the late response. I asked around to see if anyone had experienced what you had and the only solution anyone noted was closing EAC, putting the CD into the drive then re-opening EAC with the disc already inside the drive. I dont know if you already tried to do this, but if not you should. If you have, I'm sorry but I have no clue what else to try.
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
Great tutorial,thank you.
CUE ToolsMetadata Plugin v2.1.6 provides no cover/album art option for certain CD’s,
how can i include one from either another program or my own/jpg file?
Just copy the cover art into the output folder/whatever folder you';re planning on moving the output audiofiles to.
If you're talking about embedding cover art specifically, EAC can't do that. You would have to use a tag editing software or music player with that capability like MP3Tag or foobar2000 after the rip is done.
@@sharky1112 Sure,i tried to copy the picture but the area is/was greyed out.
thanx for your reply
Great Guide but I have some question. First: What if I don't know if my drive supports Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out? I read in another guide that You need to temporarily unceck "use AccurateRip" and click "Detect read sample offset correction." and thn set the overread option depending the result you get. But do I need to somehow re configure Accurate Rip again or simply check the ""use AccurateRip" option back again?
Second question - I saw soem rips that were in form of single big flac file with cue sheet having the information of all the tracks and gaps to use when burning a CD-R. As I understood Your guide would result in having separate flac files for each track. Where can I change it so I get a one large file for whole album?
Leave overread into lead-in/lead-out unchecked if you don't know if your drive supports it. Turning off accuraterip (the checkmark for "Use accuraterip with this drive") doesn't require you to re-setup accuraterip. You just need to click the checkmark again.
You can rip split tracks back to a CD-R, the CUE sheet you're using in the video saves all of the gap information.
If you want to rip files to an unsplit file, known as a 'range rip. You'd use Actions > Copy Range. You may as well also choose "Uncompressed" because you'll need the file(s) to be WAV in order to burn it back to CD-R.
Range rips aren't accepted on private music trackers, or score less than split tracks if accepted, so keep that in mind if you planned on sharing the files specifically.
@@sharky1112 Is "test and copy range" and "test and copy image" basically the same? Also, when copying image it will create cuesheet autmatically - will this cue be ok to burn with proper indexing or do I have to create this "non compliant" cue shett separately as well?
@@jakubbason3122 I believe using Test & Copy Image will generate a CUE sheet while Test & Copy Range will not.
I don't know whether the CUE will be sufficient, nobody I know uses either option. Non-compliant CUE sheets will work with EAC and Burrrn but nothing else will read them, if you're planning on burning the CD with something else than EAC or Burrrn you'll be better off with the one that is automatically generated w/ the range rip. But either way I don't know if it will contain the proper indexes/gaps.
Here's a guide to burning w/ EAC in case it interests you: docs.google.com/document/d/1f0ZtHC8phVccLWc-81gNNpy1HARasN07B3j0otwS0cI/edit?usp=sharing
Which guide was that? This is false information.
@@問答無用-t2y which guide was what? and what was false information?
What causes "The external compressor returned an error!" when I rip? Followed the guide most carefully. Ripping a DGG opera CD.
Well, EAC web site says "Flac doesn’t support compressing files on a network share (e.g. \\computer\share). In this case you will receive an error when EAC tries to compress to Flac.
As workaround you could map the network share to a drive letter and use the drive letter as target for your extractions within EAC." Was trying to write to .flac file on NAS share. When I mapped this location to a "letter drive" (e. g. Y:\Music\...) no error produced.
@@raymondvillain Glad to hear you found a solution. I would have told you the same thing had I saw this sooner, sorry.
I had this all set up and working but I had to reinstall it and I'm having issues could you please help. I'm at the External Compression tab where I have to fill in the Program, including path, used for compression tab. For some reason I'm not getting a browse search box to pick what to insert and I can't figure out what to put in to get it to work. I'm kind of computer illiterate.
Unfortunately this is entirely user specific and there'd be no way for me to know where your flac.exe is located.
By default, if you installed flac with EAC it should be located at "C:\Program Files (x86)\Exact Audio Copy\Flac\flac.exe" so pasting that without quotes *might* work.
Use windows search or an indexer like voidtools 'search everything' to look for flac.exe on your PC. Once you've found where it's located, left click in the address bar within your windows explorer (where it says stuff like "This PC > Local Disk (C:)" etc) then press ctrl + c to copy the path. Paste this into EAC then add "\flac.exe" to the end of the path. This will point it to the executable.
@@sharky1112 I actually just noticed that Exact Audio Copy won't allow me to copy the whole algorithm you have in the info. It is limiting the characters and won't put the whole thing in. Do you happen to know if I should redownload the whole program?
@@theBtotheJ23 I've never heard of this happening before, you could try re-downloading but idk if that will fix it. You don't have to put the command-line parameters, but not doing so will cause your files not to be tagged properly. That's about it
@@sharky1112 Thank you
@@sharky1112 It's odd. All the pop up windows that I open for each settings tab seems to be minimized a little. I can't scroll or get to certain ones. And the pages that should have a browse button, like in the external compression tab, aren't there. Either that or the window is cutting off the button. This sucks I really wanted to set this back up.
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.
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
I'm still having trouble with getting flac files, mines are still saving as wav. I've been through and checked everything and can't see anything obvious. When it's ripping it says eg,
Copy track 2
Reading track
Copy ok
Compress track by external program
It does same for all tracks then says something like complete when done and I click OK, however they are still wav files.??
Only explanation is that you didn't setup the compression options correctly, more specifically if your options look the same as mine in the video the thing you wouldn't notice is incorrect because its too long to just view at first glance is the command-line (that thing you pasted in)
Make sure to copy it exactly:
-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%
The reason why this needs to be done is because without "%source% -o %dest%" users aren't able to create FLAC files.
Heres a screenshot of my compression options tab i.imgur.com/FZTkHeX.png though you could just go back and look in the video, the only other thing that could be the issue is that your path to FLAC is incorrect, make sure that it points directly to the .exe itself so the final part of the path includes "\flac.exe" or "\FLAC.EXE" if it only points to the folder where flac is it will sometimes not work.
@@sharky1112 I have the same problem too. it tells me there is an error here:% lyricsfile% "% haslyrics%
@@ignaciomariacoccia8168 It's likely that you're on EAC V1.4 which has a number of bugs, one being this encoder issue
use:
-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%" -T "ALBUMARTIST=%albumartist%" -T "DISCNUMBER=%cdnumber%" -T "TOTALDISCS=%totalcds%" -T "TOTALTRACKS=%numtracks%" -T "COMMENT=%comment%" %source% -o %dest%
should fix the error.
@@sharky1112 Hello! No I have version 1.6 but it doesn't work for me. Even entering the code I sent earlier still doesn't work. Why?
@@ignaciomariacoccia8168 did you try what i left in my first reply to you?
Thank you very much sir, nicely explained and the special characters are a game changer in my entire digital organization method.
I know you recommend using "Secure mode " while using "Test and copy", and then along with the "Accuraterip" and the "Quetools" plugin to both also verify the accuracy of the CD rip. Though doing test CD's, I see it wants to take like an hour and a half to rip a CD that way running something like .9X speed. I noticed if I did all of the above but instead changed it to "Burst mode" that it would take around 30 minutes based on my test disc.
The question is, is using "Secure mode" really worth it with having to go an extra hour per disc rip time over "Burst mode"? It's my understanding that using "Test and copy" will help verify the rip, and then using "Accuraterip" and "Quetools" both each verify the rip. And if all three of those checks say the rip is accurate, then wouldn't it be nearly a 100% chance that the rip was accurate even if using "Burst mode"? Or is it strongly recommended to use "Secure mode" anyways and just have to go an extra hour per disc rip time? Thanks.
Secure mode takes longer because it reads every sector twice, burst mode is inaccurate and can lead to inaccurate rip results. You are welcome to use burst mode if you are unwilling to wait the extra duration of time that secure mode takes but, keep in mind that the rips can no longer be verified as accurate.
The only time people use burst mode is to rip problem CDs that are unable to rip on secure mode, they take the accuracy loss to at least get an almost perfect copy of the CD.
Burst mode deducts 20% from the log score in case you're wondering about that as well.
@The Fantom Convoy I did do some tests on brand new CD's where I did "Secure" mode and then I did "Burst" mode and got the same check sums for both. So I'd guess you can get "accurate" with Burst mode at least in some cases.
Though I have "Accurate Stream" selected for Secure even though my drive manufacturer says it doesn't support it though EAC says it does.
I pretty much ripped my CD's via "Secure" mode. But I did have some old scratched CD's that didn't want to rip at some songs, and so I switched to "Burst" mode and was able to get some of those fully ripped that way. Some were gonners though.
@The Fantom Convoy Yeah, I plan to replace those scratched CD's at some point so I can rip it in "Secure" mod. But I have a lot of CD's to get as I don't like the "Remasters" stuff. I have to generally get the original release of the CD from back in the day, or sometime the German or Japan release as some like those better. There are very few remasters that I think are decent. Like some of the Black Sabbath stuff that aren't bricked out or the wav pattern touching the edges.
Question, I've ripped some CD's in "Secure" mod that the CD are newish. And then I get a message at the bottom of the log on some that I guess there may be some differences and that I can use Quetools to repair even though it says everything was 'Accurate" other than a few samples. Is it best to just ignore that, or best to have Qutools repair? As I have no idea which is the better way as I have no reference if there is anything wrong with my rips. What do you normally do when that happens?
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
Great video thanks!
My CDs with these settings are taking as you said around an hour or so but one has me baffled.
It's Bryan Adams Waking Up the Neighbours and it's in great condition but EAC said 8 hours left and after 2 hours and only 4 out of the 15 songs completed it said 14 hours remaining. Something is odd with that disc taking so long and not a single surface scratch. 🤔
Some drives are incapable of reading specific sectors on specific CDs, so even if the CD is/was brand new this can happen.
Generally, this doesn't happen with pressed CDs (and I imagine the Bryan Adam's release is not a CD-R) and it's usually not going to affect all of the tracks on the disc, only a few or a single one.
That said, the only possible fixes for this are going into your Drive Settings and changing it from "Secure" to "Burst Mode", this will no longer create an accurate rip; but burst mode will ignore any data it can't read instead of spending hours re-ripping it, the end result might be a copy that sounds perfectly fine, but usually in cases like this there would be audible distortion or skips in the areas where burst mode skipped over data.
Or, individually ripping each track (by de-selecting all but one track and then running the test & copy selected tracks command)
If you don't want to use burst mode and individual track ripping doesn't get things to rip, there is:
1) try a different drive
2) buy a new cd
3) DIY or commercially resurface/buffer the disc (if damaged, not applicable here)
I wouldn't recommend buying a new disc since it's likely it won't rip either, as if you end up buying a pressed CD from the same batch (likely) it would be indentical and presumably your drive can't handle reading it.
The ETA is determined by the speed at which you're ripping the current track, so if EAC initially encounters a lot of error correction and thus the speed is exceptionally slow (because error correction requires re-ripping sectors over and over again) the ETA will increase.
The ETA will decrease if you suddenly stop using so much error correction and get to parts of the disc that your drive is capable of reading with no issues. (or increase even more if it gets worse)
@@sharky1112 Thanks for the reply. I appreciate it. This was on my wife's laptop so I may try it on my home PC and see if the drive is the culprit.
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.
thanks a lot , but the video strangely finishes with test cd rip ... and not the actual command to rip?
What do you mean? Test and Copy selected tracks means that it will perform a rip that utilizes the test and copy function in eac. Aka ripping two copies of the cd to compare against each other in order to confirm the rip was done correctly.
@@sharky1112 hello
thanks i found but EAC rips under wav format and not in flac format although i followed your instructions ........☹
@@papiloco1530 the files are initially ripped in wav then converted to flac, are they still wav after the rip finishes?
Also, if you used "test and copy selected tracks -> uncompressed" then it will not rip in flac, youd have to use "compressed" in order for it to be ripped in flac.
Thanks for the great video. Mine does not come up with any album artwork on the bottom of the Metadata Lookup popup (this popup loads for a really long time), nor does it show anything on the right on the main screen. I tried a few CD's. My CUETools Options screen has more options than yours I guess cause they have updated it, but the options are similar. Any advice?
Edit: I switched the provider to MusicBrainz, will that cause any issues?
Metadata doesn't effect rip quality so it would be fine to use musicbrainz as the default option.
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!
Very handy guide, thank you for this.
I don't create cue files, b/c I'd rather use the sub-directory features instead. Also I don't plan to burn CDs anymore.
I'll only keep a log file for archiving purpose.
However, does skipping the "Detect gaps" step affect the content of the log file?
Yeah, if you dont detect gaps they wont be appended to the previous track and so the log will indicate as such.
The gaps not being appended to the previous track would mean the final 2 seconds/beginning 2 seconds or so of the tracks will differ from if you were to play the actual cd in a cd player
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.
TH-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.
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
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, I have been using EAC over the years and just started doing them correctly hopefully for the last time. I have a couple questions and used your guide step by step. I rip to .WAV files the only thing I have different is I have my file name as this %tracknr2% %title%. I rip CD's some are brand new with no defects and it is seldom I get 100 percent on each track sometimes I will get the odd 99% accuracy and it is always at the end of a random track not the last track issue people had years ago just a random track or it could even be 3 are at 99% and is always at the very end of the track. The other issue I have is in the .cue sheet after I detect gaps I make the cue sheet with gaps non compliant and when I go to play it back in VLC (It's the default for the .cue sheet) sometimes tracks 1 & 2 or other ones will be the same song as the previous track. I do have gaps in some tracks on many CD's and others it is just the first track. If I try to drag it into foobar it just says index error at a certain section, say error on index 27 can't read file.
Now if I rip the cd as Test and copy image & create a .cue sheet it is one long wav file , it has all the correct gaps and it works fine in VLC and Foobar and the indexes are all correct in the notepad (i make a text copy to review what is in the cue file). So how come I only get 99 percent on the end of some tracks that are brand new (it is always at just the end of the track and when I do wav files separately with a cue sheet I usually have issues, while I don't when I rip it as an image or to be more exact 1 Long wav file? Thanks so much in advance.
> seldom I get 100 percent on each track sometimes I will get the odd 99% accuracy
"100% Logs" have no association with the accuracy percentage for each track. This percentage fluctuates depending on how much error correction was applied to any given track, so if EAC required you to re-read a single sector once it would go down to 99.9% (which is very likely to happen, hence why getting 100% here is very close to impossible).
A 100% log refers to a scoring system used by private trackers and some piracy communities to determine whether or not the rip was done correctly using the correct settings. You start at 100% and with each incorrect setting used you are then deducted a fixed amount. For example, if you don't use "Test & Copy" this is considered an audible deduction (because it can affect the audio of the files) and nets you -20%, so the highest a log can score at that point is 80%. Anyway, TL;DR is that the accuracy percentage under each track is a useless metric you shouldn't worry about.
Secondly, noncompliant cuesheets are not supposed to work with VLC or foobar2000. Their purpose is to retain the gap information so that you can burn your files back to a CD and, in theory create a 1:1 copy of the original CD while doing so. There is a different type of cuesheet, the one that is used when creating image rips that is supposed to work with VLC/Foobar2000 because it's purpose is to split the image file/properly index each track.
Of course if you generate a range rip/image rip and an accompanying cuesheet it's going to work in VLC/Foobar because it's supposed to - but that doesn't mean the noncompliant cuesheet is faulty. It's not supposed to work in either program.
Also you're perfectly fine ripping to wav, but I hope you're fully aware that there is no difference in quality between either format. FLAC supports tagging and is up to 70% smaller than WAV while being identical in quality (as FLAC is a compressed lossless format meaning it is decompressed back to the original lpcm audiofile during playback, so they are bit identical at that point) so I wouldn't recommend using WAV unless you have a very specific niche like a piece of equipment/software that can't run with anything else...
@shaRky OK thanks, I assumed something is wrong with my non compliant cue sheet. So does the image wav file and cue sheet still work to do a bit perfect copy I got 100 percent in the log and saved one copy as text so I could read it and all the index gaps are in there as well. I do know you have to separate the tracks from the cue sheet if I wanted to make an exact duplicate of the disc. I haven't bothered yet, but someday I may have to if the disc goes bad with age. I did get one image file that was 99 percent, but it had to re read one section. And as far as flac goes, I use that too on my stereo system and I have 5tb hard drives so I'm sure my wave files will fit on there. I have the wave files as archives and use flac on same files for home stereo equipment. I've used both flac 0 and flac 5 but storage space isn't an issue. I have 2 of everything backed up so if a hard drive fails I have the other to make another copy of my backup. Redundancy and all.
Great walk-thru! I did have a follow-up question, not sure if it's already been asked and/or addressed. I wasn't able to get the Cover Art to show up, is there a workaround and any other suggestions that you can pass on to correct this issue? Thanks a bunch! :)
Show up in what sense? Embedded into the files? EAC can't do that. At most, it will create a cover.jpg/png file inside of the directory where you're ripping your files.
So, the workaround would be if the metadata provider doesn't provide you with cover art, just google the release and drag the cover art you find into the folder where you're ripping your files.
@@sharky1112 thanks!
Question. Why would we want the test to be compressed when we are trying to get no compression
Never mind I’m dumb
The goal isnt to get uncompressed? Compression doesnt change the audio quality when it comes to lossless files. FLAC is a compressed lossless format, this is why we choose compressed (assuming you set FLAC in the compression options). If you choose uncompressed youd get WAV files which, while identical in sound will be up to 70% larger and unable to handle tagging.
i bought some cheap cd drive from amazon but then i had to return it after looking at it more cause it looked pre owned. when i plugged it in, it said the ID was 0 (next to adapter). i bought another copy after making sure the next one would be brand new of and it says 2 now. what does it mean? i didn’t uninstall eac so idk if it means anything important or whether it’ll affect anything. thanks 👍👍
The values pertain to the serial port order and drive number. in other words, where you plugged the drive in and how many other drives you have plugged in. Those values don't matter at all for ripping.
@@sharky1112 oh right thanks for clearing that up. also i followed the filename guide and the examples listed but i dont know how to get my various artist naming scheme to look like this (1-01) (1-02) in etc in front of the artist and title. i want the brackets next to them. how would i get that?
@@mscmxrrr (%tracknr2%) %artist% - %title% will make (01) Artist - Title
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
When I was using EAC on my wife's laptop it would rip the CD and all the songs would be in a folder with the album title. I put EAC on my PC and it rips all the songs and puts them in my destination folder but they are not all in a folder like before. What am I doing wrong?
EAC will generate a folder for you with a specific name if you tell it to. Chances are, you did not setup the "EAC Options -> Directories" and "EAC Options -> Filename" tabs to be an exact match to your first install.
You can either go and copy the exact settings you used on your wifes PC or you can get a similar result by enabling "Use Various artist naming scheme" in the "EAC Options -> Filename" tab then in the box directly below, you would paste "%albumtitle%\%tracknr2%. %title%" without quotations.