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Make Bit-Perfect Archives of Your CDs With FLAC

Posted 07/03/2007 at 06:47:32pm

It's great to see the love for FLAC and EAC... but a few things come to mind:

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1. The compression level hardly hurts compression time as it only affects decompression noticeably. That being said a better line might be:

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-8 -A tukey(0.25) -A gauss(0.1875) -b 4096 -V -T "artist=%a" -T "title=%t" -T "album=%g" -T "date=%y" -T "tracknumber=%n" -T "genre=%m" %s --sector-align

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2. You miss a ton of options including: a. Drive offset and the creation of a CUE file with proper gap detection. b. Ensuring a secure mode rip and determining whether or not the drive supports certain features, like the cache which will cause a lot of mutt rips and CRC mismatches if you set it wrong for example. c. Read command detection and using a burned test CD to detect write offset.

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3. Also, in a further update possibly showing off Monkey's Lossless Audio or another decoder would be interesting as EAC has an option to save compression profiles. One last thing: Why no M3U? FLAC isn't just a great way to store music, it's also a great way to listen to it.

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Links: http://www.accuraterip.com/driveoffsets.htm http://jiggafellz.isa-geek.net/eac/ http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Exact_Audio_Copy