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How To: Rip CDs With EAC
Topic Started: Mar 12 2010, 07:53 AM (493 Views)
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How To Rip CDs With EAC

Ripping CDs to your computer is an easy task that anyone over the age of 6 can do these days. Though depending on your drive, the program you use for ripping and your settings, the quality of these CDs can either sound pristine or rubbish. Even with EAC, there have been bad rips.

This tutorial will show you how to properly rip a CD using EAC.

Contents
1. Set-up
2. EAC configurations
AAAAAi. EAC settings
AAAAAii. drive settings
3. Ripping
4. End notes

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1. Set-Up
Before the ripping can being you will need:

  • A CD drive your computer and CD of your choice (obviously)
  • Exact Audio Copy
2. EAC configurations
- EAC settings
The best program for ripping CDs is Exact Audio Copy, which is also used by almost every decent trader when backing up their collection. The latest stable release (V0.99 prebeta 5) is available to download from the program's official website (http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/en/index.php/...urces/download/). Install and open the program to begin.

Select the correct drive in the upper-left hand corner of EAC. If you have only one CD/DVD drive, this isn't a problem as it will be selected by default. Then go to EAC > EAC options, and select the "Extraction" tab. Check "Fill up missing offset samples with silence" and "Synchronize between tracks." Change the Error recovery quality to "High", and set the "Extraction and compression priority" to "Normal". Uncheck everything else! Next select the "General" tab. Make sure that the "When using the Power Down feature" is set to "power down computer" and not "restart computer." Again, uncheck everything else! Next, select the "Tools" tab. Check the "Automatically write status report after extraction" box, and yet again, uncheck everything else. Then select the "Normalize" tab and uncheck everything (though all boxes are unchecked by default settings) so unless you changed these settings before, there's no need to do this. Choose the "Normalize" tab. Uncheck everything. Finally, select the "Interface" tab and for the "Use of SCSI interface" feature, choose "Installed external ASPI interface".

- drive settings
Now, choose the drive(s) you want to configure. Go to EAC > Drive Settings. In the "Extraction Method" tab, choose "Secure mode with following drive features" and check "Drive has accurate stream feature" and "Drive caches audio data." This is very important. Next, select the "Drive" tab. Choose "Autodetect read command" from the dropdown menu. Then click "Autodetect read command now." The option, like the Normalize feature in EAC settings, is usually done by default but remember to autodetect the commands anyway! Uncheck everything else in this tab. Next, select the "Offset/Speed" tab. Check "Use read sample offset correction" box. You will need to enter a value there, which you get on this page. Do not choose any drive number for the sake of it, ONLY SELECT YOUR DRIVE NUMBER. Also in this tab, check the "Allow speed reduction during extraction" and "CD-Text Read capable drive" boxes. Like before, uncheck everything else. Finally, select the "Gap Detection" tab. Choose "Detection Method A" and "Secure" in the gap index retrival methods and detection accuracy dropdown menus, respectively.

Your EAC settings are now A+, my friend. You can now go on with ripping your CD.

3. Ripping
Insert your desired CD in to your CD/DVD drive. Choose the drive you put the CD in in the dropdown menu in the top left corner. You can add id3 advanced tag information in the top-right corner, if you wish. Press "F4" to detect the between song gaps. Click on the symbol with the word "WAV" in it on the left of EAC's main menu. Your CD will then begin to rip to 44.1kHz pure WAV files.

A few minutes later, and voila! You have the perfect CD rip!

End notes
When it comes down to it, the quality of your rip is based on both EAC's settings and your drive's settings, not what you rip it to. The configuration process will take longer than the ripping, strangely enough, but it is worth it and when you do it once, you won't have to do it again, and simply rip your CD.

Happy EAC'ing!
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