Rip my CD's to flac

  On 8/11/2010 at 12:27 PM, azatoth said:

but as it is now it seems the cue sheets written by EAC can't handle the four letter file extnesion of flacs.

you should be able to set the extension as .fla instead of .flac.

  On 8/11/2010 at 9:06 PM, mrguy said:

  On 8/11/2010 at 3:07 PM, 40days said:

rip your CDs as images which is plain wrong. Don't do it.

expalin to a noob what a cd image is:$

The content is exactly the same as with track files, but tag metadata gets saved in the cue instead of files, and as such offers less tagging options because cues can't handle every custom tag out there. You can't twiddle with separate track files either, naturally.

i rip to flac (or anything else) with cdex... foobar2000 is faster at transcoding though

  On 8/12/2010 at 12:03 AM, tht tne said:

i rip to flac (or anything else) with cdex... foobar2000 is faster at transcoding though

yea, foobar works great for transcode, i use this option and it's very good!

And someone asked about ripping into iso to burn them again, if you follow the guide i posted first there is another guide how to burn that into a 100% copy, best you can do.

  On 8/11/2010 at 6:44 PM, messiaen said:

worth bearing in mind that EAC fucking destroyed my cd drive.

That's cos you were trying to rip Aphex's live sandpaper performance using the original source material....

I've ripped hundreds of my CDs using EAC and it ain't done nuffink to break my drive.

I've also ripped hundreds of cds with eac all using the same drive without problems. however, your mileage may vary.

How can you even break a CD drive with any software? Sounds rubbish to me.

If you put in a slightly scratched CD and EAC is in its most paranoid setting, it would keep spinning that CD until it got it right. I could definitely see it break a shoddier drive.

  On 8/13/2010 at 5:07 AM, 40days said:

How can you even break a CD drive with any software? Sounds rubbish to me.

No it definitely is possible as azatoth says - when getting EAC to detect gaps you hear the drive stopper motor going a bit mental for a few seconds. So it obviously does wear the drive more than standard use, but then not so much that people need to be wary of.