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Topic: What is better ? AccurateRip or EAC (Read 2532 times) previous topic - next topic
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What is better ? AccurateRip or EAC

Which tool provides better quality: AccurateRip or Exact Audio Copy ?

What is better ? AccurateRip or EAC

Reply #1 –
They are two different things, it is like saying which is the best pet to have, a cat or a dog?

As it stands on its own AccurateRip (assuming the disk you are ripping is in the database) will be able to tell you if the disc was ripped with out error, 100% accurate.

EAC cannot say for sure 100%, but then again if the disc had scratches EAC might recover them, it might not, currently AccurateRip is just reporting.

What is better ? AccurateRip or EAC

Reply #2 –
Let's say AccurateRip's development is promising. 

If you are looking for high quality rips, EAC has a secure read mode which has proven its value. EAC offers a very high level of security if you use the right settings (secure mode and proper config). You could say EAC is near-perfect, but the price you pay for that is a low extraction speed.
With AccurateRip, we might soon be able to have very fast extractions (burst mode) while still 'knowing for sure' whether or not the rip was perfect.

(As Spoon pointed out, this is even an understatement: you will be 'even more sure' that the rip was OK: 100% instead of 99.99...% )

Personally I consider the speed improvement (and offset feature) most important, rather than the quality improvement (since EAC already is near-perfect)