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EAC w/Flac outputting rips as WAV files

A little help for a newb, please.

I'm using EAC & Flac to rip my CD collection. I have ripped 90% or my 1000+ disc collection just fine. Built a new machine and am in the process of ripping remaining/new discs. Unfortunately, I did not save my ripping profile and now I'm having some complications. Both EAC and Flac are fresh installs and I thought I had it configured as previously. However, whenever I rip a disc, it saves the tracks as WAV files. I have read through the EAC and FLAC FAQs and message boards (including searching here on HA) but am still having issues.

Settings:

In EAC, under Compression Options, I have selected the following on the External Compression tab:

Use External Program for Compression is selected

Parameter Passing Scheme is set to User Defined Encoder

Use File Extension is set to .flac

Program, Including Path is as follows: D:\Program Files\Exact Audio Copy\Flac\flac.exe

Additional Command Line Options are set as: -6 -V -T "artist=%a" -T "title=%t" -T "album=%g" -T "date=%y" -T "tracknumber=%n" -T "genre=%m" -T comment="%e" -T "comment=EAC (Secure Mode)" %s

Bit Rate is 768 kb/s

Delete WAV after Compression, High Quality, and Check for External Programs Return Code are selected (all other are not).

Is there somewhere else in EAC or FLAC that needs to be altered/checked to make sure it outputs files as .flac files? I am trying to archive all my music, so I would like to get this resolved. Any assistance is appreciated.

Thanks

EAC w/Flac outputting rips as WAV files

Reply #1 –
Your Compression Settings looks fine. By the by I'm using this Additional Command Line unlike yours -
-6 -V -T "ARTIST=%a" -T "TITLE=%t" -T "ALBUM=%g" -T "DATE=%y" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%n" -T "GENRE=%m" -T "COMMENT=%e" %s -o %d
But that's not the culprit I think.

The path I generally follow for ripping ACD into FLAC are completed in two easy steps -
Select Pre Configured FLAC Profile>Load Profile
Action>Test & Copy Image & Create CUE Sheet>Compressed

If you've configured the profile correctly, you will find 3 files at the end of ripping -
  1. A FLAC image
  2.CUE Sheet
  3. An Extraction Log File

Did you follow these steps?

EAC w/Flac outputting rips as WAV files

Reply #2 –
If you are not using Autoflac with EAC, you may want to check it out.  It might help solve your problem.

http://legroom.net/software/autoflac

EAC w/Flac outputting rips as WAV files

Reply #3 –
techdeaf, you may well give a try to the advice of Sarastro. But if you are using Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 4, then you won't need Autoflac to be associated with EAC. Reason being, that version comes equipped with FLAC encoder. Any one, who knows better may enlighten us more ... Amen

EAC w/Flac outputting rips as WAV files

Reply #4 –
Hi technicallytonedeaf,

These may seem like silly questions, but they are necessary.

1) are you sure you are selecting "compressed" when you copy the tracks (or hitting SHIFT+F6)?

2) are you sure that your pathway points to the correct directory for flac.exe?

EAC w/Flac outputting rips as WAV files

Reply #5 –
"The path I generally follow for ripping ACD into FLAC are completed in two easy steps -
Select Pre Configured FLAC Profile>Load Profile
Action>Test & Copy Image & Create CUE Sheet>Compressed"

I am running into the same problem as technicallytonedeaf.  Pardon my ignorance, but where do I find Pre Configured FLAC Profile>Load Profile
Action>Test & Copy Image & Create CUE Sheet>Compressed
on the EAC site?
Seperate question- Comparing the track sizes to the compressed track size the ratio is about 4:1 using technicallytonedeaf's set up, but the file reads as wav.  If it is wav, how can it be compressed by a factor of four?  I thought wav was completely uncompressed vs lossless compression.
Thanks for your help

EAC w/Flac outputting rips as WAV files

Reply #6 –
This may not apply, but when I was using EAC, I noticed that the WAV file would not compress if I had a non-standard genre in the box.

EAC w/Flac outputting rips as WAV files

Reply #7 –
That's an interesting observation Eagle, and it may or may not be relevent in their cases.

dennis, I don't know if EAC offers configuration files on the site. I always thought these had to be made by oneself. To answer your separate question, I think that maybe EAC is compressing the file without adding the proper extension. Under Compression Options>External Compression, is "Use file extension" set to .flac?

Also, technicallytonedeaf, are you still having this issue? If so, could you please refer to my previous reply?

EAC w/Flac outputting rips as WAV files

Reply #8 –
Quote from: Mike457 on
That's an interesting observation Eagle, and it may or may not be relevent in their cases.
Not only is it irrelevant, the observation isn't even true as it relates to the topic at hand.

The only genre problem I've ever seen reported had to do with the way Lame implemented tagging and was with versions prior to 3.98.

Just now I was able to successfully create a flac file passing the genre "asdf" and had no problems.

The command line I used was the EAC default:
Code: [Select]
-6 -V -T "ARTIST=%a" -T "TITLE=%t" -T "ALBUM=%g" -T "DATE=%y" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%n" -T "GENRE=%m" -T "COMMENT=%e" %s -o %d

I hope "asdf" was non-standard enough. 

EAC w/Flac outputting rips as WAV files

Reply #9 –
Quote from: techonologicallytonedeaf on
....
Additional Command Line Options are set as: -6 -V -T "artist=%a" -T "title=%t" -T "album=%g" -T "date=%y" -T "tracknumber=%n" -T "genre=%m" -T comment="%e" -T "comment=EAC (Secure Mode)" %s
....



Your command line is incomplete. The parameter for destination file is missing.
You should add:    -o %d
(or copy the full command line as provided by greynol)

Hope this helps.
 

EAC w/Flac outputting rips as WAV files

Reply #10 –
-o %d isn't actually necessary.

There is little left that would prohibit someone from creating flac files with EAC.  The only thing coming to mind is that tracks are being canceled due to EAC exhausting the alloted number of re-reads and returning an error.

It seems rather futile guessing when I can't see how all the EAC settings are configured.  It doesn't help when people blindly follow any number of setup guides other than those in the wiki.

http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?ti...ions#Extraction
Skip track extraction on read or sync errors: untick

http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=EAC_and_FLAC

http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?ti...Lossless_Backup

I'll be eating crow if these guides have pretty blatant inconsistencies with settings; they shouldn't.

EDIT: It could also be that the filename and path are too long.  Screen shots and log files go a long way in diagnosing problems.  I usually don't bother when they aren't included.

EAC w/Flac outputting rips as WAV files

Reply #11 –
Quote from: Mike457 on
That's an interesting observation Eagle, and it may or may not be relevent in their cases.

dennis, I don't know if EAC offers configuration files on the site. I always thought these had to be made by oneself. To answer your separate question, I think that maybe EAC is compressing the file without adding the proper extension. Under Compression Options>External Compression, is "Use file extension" set to .flac?

Also, technicallytonedeaf, are you still having this issue? If so, could you please refer to my previous reply?



Well, You have a child and suddenly a question you just asked turns out to be a couple months ago. : )

Mike547's post corrected the problem. I was using the "uncompressed" option when copyng the tracks. As soon as I selected "compressed" it ripped the files correctly as .flac files.

Thanks Mike and to everyone who chimed in.