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WMA Lossless settings

Reply #25 –
Handy!

WMA Lossless settings

Reply #26 –
Normal cd's I have are at 44kHz, 16bit. However, I have a certain cd with 96kHz, 24bit. Would merely changing the "44" to "96" and the "16" to "24" in the command line of EAC achieve the lossless transfer or is it not that simple?

WMA Lossless settings

Reply #27 –
In case you change your mind afterwards about using WMA, Microsoft provides a command-line program to decode WMA Lossless files into WAV files.

However, the system requirements seem unusually steep.
"Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored."
—Aldous Huxley

WMA Lossless settings

Reply #28 –
As already stated in this thread, an audio CD is necessarily a 16/44.1 medium, and any mention of higher word length or sampling rates is referring to the master or transfer used before the content was converted to the 16/44.1 that red book audio CD's are...

WMA Lossless settings

Reply #29 –
While I am quite happy encoding to WMA Lossless with the settings I currently use, while browsing this lossless compression forum, I cam across the concept of keeping the gaps when ripping lossless in order to uniquely identify the CD.

Being a pedant and wanting "all the info I can get" when backing up, I had a sneaking tendril of suspician that while I was backing up data using WMA Lossless (individual tracks), I was still missing out on gap information (or was I?). Would this assumption be correct? If so, what method (switches in EAC?) should be used to extract the gap information as well?

WMA Lossless settings

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If so, what method (switches in EAC?) should be used to extract the gap information as well?

None, if you did not specifically use the "Detect Gap" (F4) feature, EAC by default places the pre-gap of your tracks at the end of its previous track i.e. pre-gap of track 2 is appended to the end of track 1, so no gap information is lost.

You might like to see http://doc.hydrogenaudio.org/wikis/hydrogenaudio/GapSettings for a more detailed explanation.

WMA Lossless settings

Reply #31 –
Thanks for the link: most instructive. I always used the shift-f5 to copy. Would I be right in assuming that no gap info was lost because all the gap were appended on to each track except for the very last track which will have no gap at the end? That would be reassuring news...

WMA Lossless settings

Reply #32 –
Er, I accidentally deleted my old EAC settings when installing a newer version. Meaning i lost the command line used for encoding to WMA lossless. Is there any guide which shows how to write one's own command line?

WMA Lossless settings

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Er, I accidentally deleted my old EAC settings when installing a newer version. Meaning i lost the command line used for encoding to WMA lossless. Is there any guide which shows how to write one's own command line?

Why not take this opportunity  to switch to a non-proprietary codec, such as FLAC? Here's the command-line that'll do the job in EAC:
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-8 -T "title=%t" -T "artist=%a" -T "album=%g" -T "date=%y" -T "tracknumber=%n" %s

WMA Lossless settings

Reply #34 –
By the way, whenever I try to decompress a WMA Lossless using EAC I just get an address violation and the thing shuts down. Has anyone successfully used EAC to decompress WMAs and, if so, what options were utilised?
 

WMA Lossless settings

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Er, I accidentally deleted my old EAC settings when installing a newer version. Meaning i lost the command line used for encoding to WMA lossless. Is there any guide which shows how to write one's own command line?

As has been said earlier in the thread, you don't need a command line any more, just the latest (?) version of EAC and windows media encoder installed.
You can also use dbpoweramp, which has also been recommended in the thread.
As for wma lossless, flac, etc, I'll post some compression ratios when my Plextor Premium arrives.