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Topic: Headache - FLAC, APE, EAC, LAME.... (Read 2459 times) previous topic - next topic
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Headache - FLAC, APE, EAC, LAME....

Ok folks. Any help you can give here is appreciated.

For a while I've had a 10GB Jukebox 2, and the music on it is WMA at a low bitrate so I can fit everything on.

Next couple of weeks I'll be moving to a 40GB Zen Touch.

I'd like to have as high quality music on that as possible.

I've decided to go for LAME VBR 192kBit/sec.

As far as I can tell I've got Exact Audio Copy configured right for this - I tested on a Queen CD and it seemed to work. It beeped a ton, but it did produce correctly tagged MP3 files.

Now I'm going to have to bin all my WMA files, as and when I replace them with better quality stuff.

Ideally I want to have a lossless version, and a MP3 version on my hard drives (space on the hard drives is not an issue, I have over 1.5TB). The MP3 versions I can just throw onto the new Zen Touch, the lossless I'll keep for when a 2TB DAC comes out in 5 years time, and for playing at home.

Assuming that the beeping that comes from EAC is nothing to worry about. Then I'm able to rip all my CDs fine.

I have a bunch of CDs that I've ripped previously that are in storage, or at my parents house. Both of which are up the other end of the country.

But I do have some flac files for them.

My questions are these....

I want to take flac and ape files, and turn those into mp3 files, while preserving the tag information.

Ideally I'd like to be able to do a lot of files at once.

I have searched about, but google is not very helpful. All I get is ads for commercial software which probably won't do what I want, and if it does I need to pay 30 dollars to do it, and even then will eat tags or ruin the quality.

I've searched about on forums, but I've ended up with a rather large headache.

I'm hoping someone that reads this has a little sympathy for me, and can suggest how I can achieve what I'm after.

I do realise that this information is probably contained here already, but I have looked, and I just can't see it.

I've also realised I don't even know if I'm using the correct settings for EAC, I do know that they are here somewhere, and I've tried to read the page several times - probably contributed to this headache.

Headache - FLAC, APE, EAC, LAME....

Reply #1 –
EAC beeps when the compression queue is empty + when the CD is extracted, so if the encoder compresses faster than the ripping process, then EAC will beep after every track is encoded... You can disable the beeping in the EAC options...

For transcoding while keeping the tags :

foobar2000 v0.9b10 :
http://www.foobar2000.org/foobar2000_0.9%20beta%2010.exe

For setting up EAC :

The Coaster Factory EAC Tutorial + Quickstart Guide :
http://users.pandora.be/satcp/tutorials.htm

-Martin.