For MacOSX users who stumbled on this video, don't worry! You can rip your CDs using XLD instead. I made a guide for that here: ruclips.net/video/fZLC90A0nOM/видео.html
@@nickyxie5035 Actions -> Test & Copy Selected Tracks -> Uncompressed. I would follow the settings in the video except for the compression tab as that only pertains to flac.
@@nickyxie5035 secure mode reads each sector at least twice, more if theres any damage. Test and copy rips the cd twice. A test rip and a copy rip to match the crc values together so you know that the rip was done accurately. This makes rips take 2-4x as long as using burst mode (inaccurate, ignores errors) and just copy (only rips 1 copy, cant match crcs)
As an physical media collector, and some one who is still buying cds from new bands, I thank you! I just descovered EAC after years of doing fast simple rips with Sound Forge. I am a quality nerd when it comes to video and audio, and this helped me out a lot. Going to be ripping all my CDs into uncompressed WAV files with EAC. Thanks!
Just got around to breaking out my CD collection and have ripped about 8 CDs so far. This was a life saver. Great detail and so far my rips have been perfect. Another 300 or so and I’ll be done and ready to pass on my collection to my son. Really appreciate the time spent on this.
By using the recommended settings in the video. How long is it taking you to rip each CD in "Secure mode"? Mine wants to take an hour and a half. Though if I change the one setting to "Burst mode", then it takes 30 minutes.
@@user-rw1dl5ju9b However, If the CD is in accurateRip database and You get accuracy confirmation after Burst Mode you are safe - you rip is perfect. If the CD is not in the databse or you don't get perfect rip confirmation from it - you have to use Secure Mode.
13:40 for people who installed somewhere other then the default spot here's a easy way to find the path just navigate to where you installed it and find flac.exe hit shift while right clicking and click "copy file path" then paste it ( just make sure to remove the quotes)
Just discovered EAC as a tool to rip CDs to FLAC format and this tutorial was quite simply excellent! Thank you so much for taking the trouble to share your knowledge!!
Excellent tutorial and right to the point. I don't need to know how a washing machine works, as long as my clothes are clean. You explained enough for me. Thank you greatly.
Hello Sharky, just a quick recognition for the professionalism of your guides, both in Video and written versions. As part of the community a big Thank You!!!
Thank you so so much!!!! I set this up a couple years ago but just reinstalled windows so had to redo the whole thing haha, was very happy to find this video again
This is such a good tutorial! I had no prior knowledge of ripping CDs, but bought some of my favorites because I wanted high-quality files to sample in my music production, and despite having absolutely no prior knowledge, I got it all to work first try! I really love when tutorials are this structured and easy to follow. The only minor, and I mean minor, criticism that I have, is that I did have to Google how to find the flac.exe file. I think that was a little bit unclear, but besides that, absolutely fantastic tutorial. And besides, such a minor thing in a tutorial like this is still really great. Good stuff! :) Excited to rip more CDs now!
Its a damn shame you have so few subs. A good quality voiceover, and a full guide to get up and running, for most. Found this video looking for how to use this program, as I had no clue how to start the process yet alone get my disc to show up, and solved every problem I had and got it set up in a way that is performing perfectly. I had used a trial version of db something, which produced only corrupted tracks that no program could recognize, and feared I would spend considerable time finding a replacement that at least got that far. I already have a great DVD ripper that let me put my collection on my media server, but bought my first CD a bit ago and it wasn't able to rip CDs. Looking to get all the songs I tend to listen to on RUclips, as it is ad free music I will own and could listen to anywhere.
dBpoweramp is probably fine, it might just be the flac binary it ships with, or that you already had that is causing the corrupt tracks. There is known issues with some earlier versions of FLAC that can cause tracks to be corrupt. If you attempt to rip uncompressed wav files instead, they'd probably be fine. This issue also affects EAC tbh, and any other ripping software, since it is the conversion from wav to flac that is causing it. Not worried about subs lol, I just made this for my friends ^^
Very helpful. Haven't managed to get the AccurateRip to display yet, so followed the rest of the instructions. After watching the clip used the written guide you created, thank you very much!
This kept happening to me as well. I had uninstalled and reinstalled multiple times. Then I tried keeping the GD3 Metadata plugin in the original set up, and then finally got the AccurateRip to pop up! I don't know if this will help but it might be worth a shot
Best tutorial ever! I watched the entire video and I don't even have any of that software downloaded. I will re-watch this again when I get around to installing the software and burning some CDs.
The other thing about logs and cue sheets is that they can be used by databases such as MusicBrainz to determine accurate Disc ID's, and even assign ISRC's to tracks on a CD and thus be able to link the same recordings (typically songs) across different albums. In general their information is good to have for any sort of database editing, on different fronts. Submitting the log also allows for AcoustID retrieval.
shaRky - Thank you for taking the time and effort to produce this excellent, easy to understand and follow, video tutorial on the setup and use of the EXACT AUDIO COPY to rip CDs into the FLAC format. Your instructions saved me from "most certain" headaches in setting up this program. Thanks again!
@@danielwilder7835 based on your other comment, I imagine this is because you're on beginner mode and probably skipped thru portions of the video (since you wouldn't be on beginner mode otherwise) EAC Options > Tools > the very last setting;l turn it off. Then, go to Compression Options > External Compression then follow from 13:23 make sure you have the exact path to your flac.exe set as well, since that is a common issue. (the ending has to edit with "/flac.exe" , it can't be the folder that flac.exe is located in.
@@KitsuneNoNatsu Do this: copy the description of this video and paste it in the Windows Notepad (if you do not use Windows, use the notepad of your O.S.), because it will erase the formatation, then copy it from notepad and paste it on the EAC blank spaces. Try it. I think it will work. This was what I've done and worked very well!
Thank you, really helpful. The Character Replacements function caused big problems. They stopped the resulting files from being recognised by LMS - Logitech Media Studio. A suggested set-up for practical everyday use rather than perfect use, and for mp3 would be great also. Thanks again.
Hi, the character replacements are optional as per the video. They are however, supported by all modern music players, windows, Mac and Linux as well as iOS/Android Devices. Sorry to say but Logitech Media Studio is shit if it can't handle them, and they were chosen for practical everyday use, not for being 'perfect'. The most important factor in using character replacements is that they work on windows. This is why the defaults are hyphens and x's, precisely because they work on windows. The replacements I listed also work on windows, which makes them as practical as they will ever be. Secondly, don't use EAC if you wish to rip MP3s, the entire point of using EAC is for bit perfect quality, you're going through more effort / taking longer to rip the files to do so. If you choose to rip MP3 with EAC you will be taking at the very least 2x longer than any other program to rip the MP3 files which cannot be perfect because they are mp3 to begin with. In spite of this, there IS a section in the written guide for users who wish to rip with MP3. docs.google.com/document/d/1b1JJsuZj2TdiXs--XDvuKdhFUdKCdB_1qrmOMGkyveg/edit?usp=sharing The only differences between the two setups is changing the file path in external compression options to mp3.exe, the file extension to .mp3 and the command-line to either a MP3 V0 or MP3 320 suitable command-line (or a lesser format if you feel so inclined) Again, this is covered in the written guide should you want to waste your time ripping MP3s with EAC, specifically in the "External Compression" section.
Choose "copy selected range" as opposed to "test and copy selected tracks" (you could use test and copy on the selected range instead, but thats a waste of time if youre not going for a "perfect" rip
Hey, friend, can you help me, please? The AccurateRip pop-up is not showing with any disc, I tried a lot of discs, including the most popular ones. I don't know if it is because I had EAC installed before. I deleted the program and installed it again (maybe there's a residual cache file somewhere?)
EAC saves the drive's offset (The thing you're setting up by enabling AccurateRip) as a registry key. Deleting EAC doesn't remove the registry key, and if you by chance use(d) dBpoweramp, they share the same registry key so it's possible that AccurateRip has already been enabled. To confirm whether this is the case, go to "Drive Settings" (top left corner) then "Offset/Speed" and if the top half of the tab is greyed out + you are able to enable the "Enable accuraterip with this drive" button, then you already have accuraterip enabled and you can skip that step. Alternatively, maybe you enabled beginner mode which would cause you to be unable to activate accuraterip. Go to EAC Options > Tools then at the bottom make sure that beginner mode isn't enabled. Only other reasons for accuraterip to not pop up despite trying many CDs would be because either EAC doesn't have access to the internet, or the PC itself doesn't have access to the internet or; the discs are somehow all too badly damaged and EAC can't read any of them (though this is very unlikely)
@@sharky1112 thank you very much for your reply. I've figured out that I already had the AccurateRip configured from my previous EAC installation. By the way, thanks for this video and the text guide. It's awesome that you had so much work to help other people.
Why did my comment I just posted disappear? I was saying I have a 40yr old CD (MJ - Thriller) that won’t rip not even at 0.1x speed. I think it’s a foreign pressing and someone told me about offset, but have no idea how to do it. Something about lead in? Or try burst mode. Cd looks new and I’m surprised it won’t work. It plays fine in a CD player but when it spins it makes a bit of noise. What would you suggest? Thank you
Enabling accuraterip (the first step in the video) determines your offset. Lead in/lead out is a setting you can enable in your Drive Settings, it only works with certain drives and the ones it doesnt work with, it causes your rips to get a suspicious position error on the last track of every disc you rip. You can try enabling it but it probably wont make the copy rip. If you go into drive settings and select either burst mode or paranoia mode, you will be able to rip the disc because neither has error correction. Any problems that eac was trying to correct will be skipped over, which usually allows you to rip the disc. Just keep in mind, doing this will cause parts of your rip to have skips, clicks and distortion assuming you encounter errors (which it sounds like you will). Damaged discs can play in cd players because the cd player is built to correct errors whereas cd drives are not. It being a foreign pressing doesnt matter for ripping, but if its genuinely 40 years old it might have disc rot which would make it, or at least parts of it unrippable. If the disc has no visible damage you could try other drives to see if one will rip it, but the "just try other drives" option is usually not available to anyone who isnt a serious fanatic with a crate of extra drives at their disposal
I thank you for all the information and help with setup. Only thing which wasn't clear to my slow brain, was the linking pathway for FLAC being back to the EOCfolder saved in Programs. Couldn't see how you did this so quickly.
To quote a written EAC guide "If you want to figure out whether your drive needs "Overread into Lead-in and Lead-Out" checked, you can check by temporarily unchecking "Use AccurateRip with this drive". Stick a CD in the drive and hit "Detect read sample offset correction...". If you're just doing this for the Overread, see below: ptpimg.me/df4vwi.png Check "Overread Lead-In and Lead-Out" only if the test result says that your drive can overread from both the Lead-In and Lead-Out, or if it says Lead-Out and your offset correction is positive, or if it says Lead-In and your offset correction is negative. Otherwise disable (uncheck) it." Once you've figured out if your drive is capable you'd want to re-enable 'use AccurateRip with this drive' btw.
Why's it important to enable drive caching? EAC itself states that the option can cause unnecessary risk to the rip quality, and it takes substantially longer for the rip to complete.
The intention of this guide is to provide people with the information needed to receive a log file that scores 100% as well as a perfect copy. The log file is scored based on the settings used/not used and, because it does not take into account each specific drive model and whether they can handle c2 error correction correctly or whether they can make use of the cached data it will indiscriminately score the log with deductions if C2 Error correction is enabled and if Caches audio data is disabled. So, doesn't matter what the setting does in the end, if you want a 100% log you have to leave it enabled. As for the perfect rip aspect. This does not harm the rip in any way to leave on if your drive doesn't make use of it. So, because it's a required setting when going for a 100% log and because it can't make your perfect rip not perfect I am saying to have it enabled. You're welcome to leave it off if you're worried. I would encourage you to look for more information regarding it being damaging to your drive. I don't believe it is. Also, was the source of this information: wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=EAC_Drive_Options this link? It's 13 years old and a public wiki, it's not indicative of EACs actual stance. Edit: I Inquired further, and there are no threads in any private music communities expressing concern over this particular setting, whether you believe that or feel its sufficient to enable it is up to you.
@@sharky1112 Actually I noticed later that you have the special characters in the notes after your video. By the way, how do you know that Paranoid and Burst modes don't result in a perfect bit-for-bit copy?
@@ajlenze8 Paranoid mode is ancient. It does half of what 'secure mode' does (re-reads each sector twice) but, in very small blocks causing significant stress on your drive. The creator of EAC hasn't suggested using the setting since at least 2007. (Note that paranoid mode is the same as burst mode with no error correction so the same argument can apply there) www.exactaudiocopy.de/en/index.php/2007/03/15/what-is-paranoid-mode-and-why-is-it-not-recommended/ Burst mode does not have "error correction" which means that it will skip over any piece of data you can't read on your first attempt. This sounds fine because as long as the CD is brand new it should be fine, right? The problem is that optical drives have very little (if any) error correction/handling on their own. It's common for drives not to be able to read brand new discs with 100% accuracy. Generally, even on the most prestine CDs you'll notice your "Track Quality: %" will be lower than 100%. This means that error correction was applied to the rip. The lower the % the more correction was applied. In practice, when you use burst mode you are likely to encounter data that your drive can't read in one go. You will skip over said data and it will result in no longer being bit perfect but also may contain audible errors (pop/skip/clicks/static)
@@sharky1112 It sounds like you're saying that all modes COULD create an exact copy, but Secure mode has the best chance to do so, especially if there are some errors. If you had said that, I would have totally agreed, but I've seen Paranoid mode result in the same checksums as Secure mode, which means that both are reading the data the same.
@@ajlenze8 If you feel more comfortable using a setting the owner of the program advises against using and toutes as being worse than Secure Mode, by all means you should do it. While all modes can achieve a perfect copy in an ideal scenario, you are very unlikely to do so and it would be ill advised to tell people they should use a mode that takes even longer than secure mode while ruining their drive (without error correction mind you) because there is a chance it can perform correctly. Since over 70% of consumer drives (per Spoon's accuraterip results) have an accuracy of 95% or lower - the statistical likelyhood of you performing a perfect rip with any other mode is not sufficient to recommend it.
Hello, I got a Sony walkman and ripped a few cds using Sony Media Center. Should I start over using this EAC? I compared songs ripped with Sony Media Center to few songs I ripped with EAC and they (flacs) were same kb vbr. Is the quality better with EAC? Should I start over? Thank you
They are used to burn the files back to a CD. Only other usecase is using a type of cuesheet to split a single disc image rip (which you aren't doing here) The type of cuesheet you are shown how to create will additionally retain the gaps between each track so that when the files are burnt back to the CD the original position of each track (and thus their intended playback) will be preserved.
How would I know what directory to store something I haven't even see before. Save WHAT? Save it to Where, a FOLDER? I put stuff in folders but that is NOT a directory. I don't even know what this means.
The files are extracted in .wav and then later compressed as a final step when choosing "Test & Copy -> Selected Tracks -> Compressed" If that isn't happening and you're not seeing a "file creation error" appearing, then it's due to your "Compression settings" within the "External Compressor" tab being incorrect. Most commonly, this is due to the path to *.flac.exe being incorrect.
Does this appear ok? This was from ripping a single track- Exact Audio Copy V1.6 from 23. October 2020 EAC extraction logfile from 2. March 2024, 21:08 Wings / Wings at the Speed of Sound Used drive : HL-DT-STDVDRAM GP65NB60 Adapter: 1 ID: 0 Read mode : Secure Utilize accurate stream : Yes Defeat audio cache : Yes Make use of C2 pointers : No Read offset correction : 6 Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : Yes Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000 Gap handling : Appended to previous track Used output format : User Defined Encoder Selected bitrate : 128 kBit/s Quality : High Add ID3 tag : No Pre-gap length 0:00:01.65 Peak level 99.3 % Extraction speed 1.6 X Track quality 99.9 % Test CRC 177E98F6 Copy CRC 177E98F6 Accurately ripped (confidence 200) [26F2CD86] (AR v2) Copy OK All tracks accurately ripped No errors occurred End of status report
Thanks for the tutorial, Really of great help. One question: If I use another DVD/CD drive to rip, do I need to go through all the options again, or just those options under 'Drive'?
Youll need to activate accuraterip for the other drive, at most you may additionally have to change the gap detection method but besides that no, the rest of your settings will be saved. I would suggest saving profiles for each drive so that you dont have to change the settings a bit each time you switch drives
Great tutorial; helps out a bunch. If I want to save my file as 01 - Dance Song | 02 - Jazz Song | how would I format this in the various artist naming scheme? Thanks.
I dont have eac in front of me, but i believe it would be %tracknr2% - %title% Look at the legend, if "title" isnt valid its probably %tracktitle% or %song title% or something similar.
Thanks man! This is a great guide! I wanted to note that I can't get Asian text to write onto the cuesheet following your steps. No matter what there's no option for the cuesheet to encode in UTF-8 or UTF-16 as it will always encode the sheet in ANSII. Any other work around like exporting to CDPlayer.ini is useless as I want the metadata to be transferred from EAC to each individual tracks. Now I have to create my own cuesheet in UTF-16, transfer the metadata from the ANSI to it then manually input the tags myself which is what I did not want sigh.. Is there a way to just encode the entire CD as one single .wav or .flac file with a cuesheet? I haven't figured it out. I did it long ago I believe but it's been years.
In order to get cuesheets to output in another encoding you'll need to change your locale. Being on any of the english locales will output ANSI so, change to japanese and you'll get shift-jis encoded cues instead which handles unicode characters. Keep in mind that EAC preserves the encoding of metadata submitted to the metadata provider so once and a while you'll import metadata and the cuesheet will output in some non-shift-jis format. As far as sharing these rips goes - the majority of peoples cuesheets are completely broken for unicode characters/non-latin characters and there's really no problem. The cuesheet is already "broken" when created because you're converting your files to FLAC. It only functions when the files are .wav so - people really don't look at the tags within the cuesheet, the only concern is that it retains the gaps if ever someone really wants to burn the files back to CD. When burning back to CD you'd modify the tags within the cuesheet yourself to your liking. This is to say, you can safely ignore your cuesheets tags when ripping if you're not personally burning the files back to CD. As for how to rip a single file, you choose range rip. Actions -> Copy selected range (iirc, don't have the program open rn to confirm) If you're going to rip it ""incorrectly""" per private tracker standards you may as well also not use "Test & Copy" as that will slow down the rip by 2x and, possibly change your rip settings from "Secure Mode" to "Burst Mode" to reduce your time ripping by another 2x.
How can I manually set the cd cover art? I just want to add a jpg or jpeg as the cd cover but dragging the image or right clicking the box doesn't allow for adding an image, it's grayed out.
This is due to Windows being terrible. Your windows explorer has lower permissions than EAC does which forbids you from dragging images into EAC from windows explorer. There is a solution, and I will write it below but I would highly recommend just putting the cover.jpg into the folder you are ripping to. When you attach it on EAC all it does is go into the folder so just skip the middleman and put it there yourself. As for the solution, you will need to run a program with a context menu allowing you to access your files in administrator mode to give you the same permission elevation as EAC. Then, open the context menu and search for the cover art you want to put in EAC. Once found, drag it from this open context menu into EAC. Not worth it, right?
Depends what you mean by "so long" , but if your rips are taking anywhere between 20 minutes and 2 hours that's expected. ~1h should be the average per rip. The main reason why EAC takes so long is due to two specific settings: Test & Copy which rips the CD twice, producing two seperate CRC values, the point of this setting is to verify that between two different rips, the audio EAC extracted was identical, if the data wasn't identical there'd be a "CRC Mismatch" (when the Test CRC and Copy CRC don't match) which would mean that something's off with the rip, or specific tracks in the rip. Secure Mode reads each sector of your disc twice. Then, if there is any trouble reading a specific section of the disc - it will re-read those sectors multiple times until it's able to pull all of the data (this is error correction - that thing where the blocks light up red in EAC's ripping ETA window) so at minimum this takes 2x as long to rip a CD as oppose to something that only reads the sectors once, and if any error correction needs to be applied it will take much longer to finish the rip. So TL;DR - Two settings meant to make your rip more accurate / verify that the rip was done accurately cause you to rip the CD 2 times and read the data on the disc ~4 times. If you did away with error correction, cached audio, split tracks, compressing files and test & copy you could get EAC to rip discs in ~10 minutes or so. But the end result would not be very accurate.
@shaRky....Why do some CDs still show as a .wav file after ripping them with EAC as a flac file? Do I have to use another program now to make them flac files? I ripped a double CD set and now the folder has two differwnt songs as track 1, two different songs as track 2, etc. Edit: Apparently the program became corrupted because I reinstalled it and I already noticed that the compressed file size of songs reads correctly now. It was showing 4 or 5MB file sizes before reinstallation.
Hi, this is the best guide i've seen on EAC. Quick question: Do you know if it possible to force the CUE Sheet to produce UTF8? I have tried for ages, but it seems some people can do it. Lots of my CD's are vintage Japanese CD's so that would save a bunch of steps!
Be on Japanese locale or emulate Japanese locale and run EAC thru your emulator. CUE sheet is decided by the locale you're on as well as the encoding the files are in at the time of you hitting "import" on one of the database entries. EAC isn't going to write your CUEs in UTF8 unless the text from the database is in UTF8, but it will write most of them in shift-js which works with japanese characters. Is there a definitive reason you NEED them to be in UTF8 btw? If it's to share to a private tracker there are no requirements for the CUE to be in a specific encoding, the only important factor of the CUE is that it preserves the timings / gaps of the disk. You're already doing that so there should be no issues. It's really simple to re-encode the cue sheets as well, I'm sure theres a number of ways to batch convert them all once you're done ripping everything to.
@@sharky1112 thank you for your reply. I thought I was looking for utf-8 cuesheets but I guess really I just need the cue sheet to display Japanese characters (and English). Yes, the database's, EAC and foobar all have no issue displaying the characters. Just can't get the cue sheet to output Japanese, it comes out as dots. I have even added utf-8 symbols in eac but the cue sheet is always ANSI. The dots don't change when encoding with notepad++ BTW, The cue sheet is important as I prefer to make an image of the album (not seperate track files), and embedding the sheet with all the details is quick in foobar. Many thanks if you can help. Also, I subbed!
@@southerncharity7928 I own a community for sharing Doujin music (independently released japanese music) and *nobody* has gotten EAC to consistently output CUE sheets in UTF8, it's not possible. A number of different people have inquired / looked into it but the only consensus is to use japanese locale to get shift-js, and sometimes if needed re-encode with unicue or CueTools. If you end up needing to use Unicue or CueTools, CueTools is pretty self explanatory and english while Unicue is Chinese and has no english translation so... here's a translation: 切换到转换字符串 (Change encoding) 输出编码 (Output Encoding) 保存（覆盖） (Save and overwrite) 另存（Save as...) To actually re-encode you'd drag the .cue file into unicue, then hit '另存'" i.imgur.com/c1fek4A.gif Unicue: github.com/kuyur/unicue/archive/master.zip CueTools: cue.tools/wiki/CUETools_Download The community may be of interest to you as well given the type of music you're ripping, if you want to check it out it's discord.gg/doujincafe
Thank you Sharky for the guide. Could you tell me what percentage of accuracy from accurate rip should be expected in the log file to know you have a perfect or near perfect copy of your Flacs?
Accuraterips only real purpose is to set your drives offset value for you. I assume by percentage you are looking at the "track quality" value under each track in the log? The value here only indicates the percentage of error correction that was applied to the track during the ripping process. 100% means none, 99.9% means 0.01% error correction was applied. Error correction being applied doesnt indicate it isnt perfect and in many cases will be unavoidable, so this value should be ignored. Your log file will let you know when errors are present in the ripping process. These errors indicate the rip is not perfect. If there are none then it is reasonable to assume it is as close to perfect as it can be. The errors are "timing problem(s)" "suspicious position(s)" or, the test CRC and copy CRC values do not match (called a CRC mismatch) and these errors tend to appear when EAC displays "read/sync error" during the ripping process
One thing I'm doing on my CD rips is I use canned air to blow off any dust on the CD. Then I take a microfiber cloth to clean the disk and remove any smudges. I do wonder how people get perfect rips when they have dust on their CD's as I don't see how the laser can read the data there when dust is on the CD.
Hello, I have followed your guide exactly but unfortunately I keep getting an error which is really bugging me. My log file is saying that all of my tracks are acurately ripped, but when I listen to one of the tracks there is a brief moment in the song (less than a second) where the audio just cuts out. I have played the cd back on its own and there is no issue at all. Any idea on how to solve this? Thanks.
Look in your log file on the track in question and see if either "Timing Problem(s)" "Suspicious Position(s)" or the Test CRC and Copy CRC of the track are different, these three errors would indicate there is a reasonable explination for the skip to be present. If this is the case, there isn't anything that can guarentee a perfect copy but you can try the following: If its suspicious positions/timing problems go to EAC -> Drive Options -> Offset/Speed -> disable 'lead in/lead out' If its a CRC mismatch (the test and copy crc of the track are different) you could try: Cleaning the cd then re-ripping Re-ripping just the track with audible errors Going into EAC Options - > Drive Options -> Spin up drive before extraction then re-ripping just the track with the error Trying ripping the CD with a different cd drive Things I would advise against, as there is no guarentee that it will stop crc mismatches. It might be a waste of money Buying a new drive to rip the CD then trying w/ the new drive - It's seemingly random whether the drive will be capable of obtaining the damaged sectors, some can some can't and there is no way to know until you try Buying a new copy of the CD - Some CDs are badly pressed and consistently produce CRC mismatches across multiple copies/drives DIY/Commerically resurface the existing CD/new copy if there are visible scratches - may completely ruin the CD so keep that in mind
Nothing shown in my video can mistakenly do this. Retail CDs also can't be written over in this way. I don't know what you did, but it took multiple mistakes to pull off
The accuraterip configure pop up never showed, but the logo pops up on the bottom right corner when I popped a cd in. Does that mean it is still activated?
Dont think so, but you can confirm by going to drive options -> offset/speed and looking to see if the top half of this tab is greyed out, and whether or not you can enable "use accuraterip with this drive" , if its not greyed out/you cant then it isnt setup
Hello! While configuring metadata options, the CueTools plugin doesn't seem to show up under metadata providers. Any idea why this is happening? I'm using EAC 1.6 if that helps.
No idea, besides potentially not selecting it when you first installed EAC as one of the plugins you want to have installed. You can install it after the fact, see here: cue.tools/wiki/CTDB_EAC_Plugin
thanks for this video! it was a great help. I do have a question though, on average how long does it take to rip a cd? I have a LG BR drive that's capable of 40x, and I feel like it all ways takes at least an hour for one rip. I have 2 other drives I can also try. but I think it's going to be the same. I do understand that it rip times can vary from cd to cd since they aren't all the same length and how damaged they are with scratches. I've considered switching over to burst mode because when I tested it, I could rip a cd in 8/12 mins.
20 mins up to 2 hours is what i see, generally that number is closer to around 30 minutes. That said, "secure mode" reads each sector twice at minimum, and if it encounters a sector it cant read it will perform "error correction" which re reads the damaged sectors over and over again (or predetermined number of times) until it can extract the data, Then, test and copy rips the cd twice. In total, secure mode and t&c increase the rip time by 4 at minimum. Burst mode with no test and copy will be significantly faster but will skip over errors if they occur. The video is meant to show which settings to use to rip a "100% log" or perfect copy but as long as no errors occur, a burst mode no t&c rip will sound exactly the same. Its understandable if you wanna go that route
I wonder why the manufacturer of the program does not provide such settings by default, since the program assumes that it should copy music from CDs without a scratch.
Thank you for an awesome instructional vid! I have an issue though. I want to rip a live CD into one file which displays each track name as it plays. Is this possible? Thank you!
Depends, you are able to perform a range rip which will rip the entire CD into a single file. The accompanying cuesheet you create will then split the files into individual tracks within your music player. Whatever you're using needs to support the use of cuesheets and, given you are essentially just splitting the range rip into individual tracks within the music player it would be the same thing as just ripping individual tracks imo. To do a range rip, Action -> copy range then, for the cue Action -> create cue sheet -> pick the one relating to range rips, i forget what its called.
Novice Here. Great Tutorial - Thank You. I have EAC software installed (I really like it) and can Rip/Burn without problems. However my question is: Can I Rip WAV files for a CD and save these to a memory stick so they can be played as a whole album (with gaps) on an external device..........or do I need another program for this? Many Thanks In Advance.
You'd select actions -> test & copy selected range -> uncompressed There's probably no point in using test & copy for this, so if you want it to go 2x faster just select "copy selected range" then pick uncompressed. Be aware WAV files don't retain tags the same way FLAC files do. External devices should be able to FLAC files and most hardware you'd be playing it on does to. So, unless yours can't I would stick with FLAC.
Whenever I rip a cd with the software with all the information. The info (excluding the file name) for the contributing artist and album name doesn’t show up after the cd is done ripping to my computer (when I click on the folder). Is this normal, or how can I fix it?
If you open your files up in a music player, tag editing software or even by inspecting them and opening preferences, are the tags present? If yes, then it's a file explorer issue. If no, then it's the "Compression" settings in EAC, in particular "External Compressor" tab, where I note pasting in the custom args, make sure this has been correctly copy and pasted. RUclips started translating descriptions automatically so it might have fucked up the parameters. As for file explorer: If you're on Windows 7 it's normal because Win7 doesn't officially support reading FLAC metadata in file explorer. You have to use a third party app to add that functionality. If you're on windows 8+ and this is happening, chances are that either your file explorer view is incorrectly setup, possibly for "general" view as opposed to detailed view or for music files. Alternatively, if you embed cover art larger than approximately 2MiB to the files a process in file explorer that reads the metadata will overflow due to the padding size and crash, no longer rendering tags in the Title, Artist, Album etc fields. Only way to fix this in particular would be to embed smaller images and for existing rips with huge embeds you'd have to both de-embed the artwork and remove the excess padding.
Do you know how would I compress to APE instead of FLAC? There exists a guide on HydrogenAudio but it conflicts with some things on your guide, such as "Use CRC check" and "Check for external programs return code." Should I just ignore this? Other than changing the external compressor I'm aware cli options may need to be changed but I'm not sure which. I know APE isn't the standard for sharing but it's more convenient for my personal library in some scenarios. Thanks for all your help and sorry for asking so many questions.
Change the file extension to .ape, change the path to wherever wapet.exe is, change the additional command line encoder to "%dest% -t "Artist=%artist%" -t "Title=%title%" -t "Album=%albumtitle%" -t "Year=%year%" -t "Track=%tracknr2%" -t "TotalTracks=%numtracks%" -t "Genre=%genre%" -t "Album Artist=%albumartist%" -t "DiscID=%cddbid%" "MAC.exe" %source% %dest% -c2000 -v " (without quotes) You can disable 'use crc check' but I wouldn't untick 'Check for external programs return code', and I wouldn't enable 'Add ID3 Tag'
Try downloading the latest version of flac from their official site (iirc its ver 1.4.4) then saving it somewhere youre sure eac has permission to access. Then go to your compression tab and change the location of your flac.exe to that new location. My assumption is either you dont have permission to access flac, your location is only pointing to the folder flac.exe is located and not directly to flac.exe, or.. Youre ripping to a network drive like your NAS or something, and it doesnt have a letter mapped to it which is confusing the compressor. You can map your network drive so that it can. Also, i guess worth mentioning that RUclips auto translates the description of videos now so its possible the command line encoder is messed up if youre not an english speaker. You can try to copy it from within my google docs guide instead
@@sharky1112 I just set up EAC again on a new PC and got this error only on 2 tracks of the first CD I ripped, never happened to me before (using your tutorial). I do now rip to a new drive with an assigned letter tho which is a difference for sure. I know this is just an assumption game we are playing but I have it pointing to the correct flac.exe and my youtube doesn't try to translate the description either. Thought if permissions were messed up it would always fail or am I wrong on that? Either way I am going to try and download that flac version and try again!
@@warlordwossman5722 If it's only on two tracks, I imagine it's actually a "file creation error" which occurs when there is an invalid character within the track name(s). Check and see if they contain any invisible characters or large amounts of empty space either at the front or end of the track. This sort of thing happens when you copy the tracklist from a database site like discogs that uses a page left invisible character to format their text
@@sharky1112 strangely enough I only did those 2 tracks again and it just worked without any changes. Tagged the CD with copied titles from metal archives so no excessive amount of spaces or anything. But thank you anyways for all the help.
For MacOSX users who stumbled on this video, don't worry! You can rip your CDs using XLD instead.
I made a guide for that here: ruclips.net/video/fZLC90A0nOM/видео.html
What if i just want wav did i just need to click the wav icon in the left side without need setting in the video. Right?
@@nickyxie5035 Actions -> Test & Copy Selected Tracks -> Uncompressed.
I would follow the settings in the video except for the compression tab as that only pertains to flac.
@@sharky1112it takes longer time than before follow your guide😢. I hope it perfect as you say. Right now gonna try it
@@nickyxie5035 secure mode reads each sector at least twice, more if theres any damage. Test and copy rips the cd twice. A test rip and a copy rip to match the crc values together so you know that the rip was done accurately.
This makes rips take 2-4x as long as using burst mode (inaccurate, ignores errors) and just copy (only rips 1 copy, cant match crcs)
@@sharky1112 so how about dbpoweramp which one you think make perfect rip if both of it in secure mode?
Awesome tutorial! Feels like I went from apprentice to tradesman in 20 minutes. Thank you for helping the audio community.
As an physical media collector, and some one who is still buying cds from new bands, I thank you! I just descovered EAC after years of doing fast simple rips with Sound Forge. I am a quality nerd when it comes to video and audio, and this helped me out a lot. Going to be ripping all my CDs into uncompressed WAV files with EAC. Thanks!
You mean flac?
flac is compressed. wav is uncompressed. @@Metalhead-4life
@@Metalhead-4lifeno. he means wav.
Just got around to breaking out my CD collection and have ripped about 8 CDs so far. This was a life saver. Great detail and so far my rips have been perfect. Another 300 or so and I’ll be done and ready to pass on my collection to my son. Really appreciate the time spent on this.
By using the recommended settings in the video. How long is it taking you to rip each CD in "Secure mode"? Mine wants to take an hour and a half. Though if I change the one setting to "Burst mode", then it takes 30 minutes.
@@colt5189 Burst mode is inaccurate.
@@user-rw1dl5ju9b However, If the CD is in accurateRip database and You get accuracy confirmation after Burst Mode you are safe - you rip is perfect. If the CD is not in the databse or you don't get perfect rip confirmation from it - you have to use Secure Mode.
@@jonrael3443 It can however lead to timing problems.
@@user-rw1dl5ju9b How? If the rip marches AR databse it is a perfect bit to bit copy of CD.
13:40 for people who installed somewhere other then the default spot here's a easy way to find the path just navigate to where you installed it and find flac.exe hit shift while right clicking and click "copy file path" then paste it ( just make sure to remove the quotes)
Just discovered EAC as a tool to rip CDs to FLAC format and this tutorial was quite simply excellent! Thank you so much for taking the trouble to share your knowledge!!
Excellent tutorial and right to the point. I don't need to know how a washing machine works, as long as my clothes are clean. You explained enough for me. Thank you greatly.
Hello Sharky, just a quick recognition for the professionalism of your guides, both in Video and written versions. As part of the community a big Thank You!!!
Even a primary school kid can somehow understand these procedures. Thanks so much for the detailed information!
I love the "beep after finished"!
This is an awesome guide! Thank you. I used to rip CDs a decade ago, and I stopped. Now I am back to it. :)
Holly "all the info" Batman that was amazing thank you very much
Thank you so so much!!!! I set this up a couple years ago but just reinstalled windows so had to redo the whole thing haha, was very happy to find this video again
This is such a good tutorial! I had no prior knowledge of ripping CDs, but bought some of my favorites because I wanted high-quality files to sample in my music production, and despite having absolutely no prior knowledge, I got it all to work first try! I really love when tutorials are this structured and easy to follow. The only minor, and I mean minor, criticism that I have, is that I did have to Google how to find the flac.exe file. I think that was a little bit unclear, but besides that, absolutely fantastic tutorial. And besides, such a minor thing in a tutorial like this is still really great. Good stuff! :) Excited to rip more CDs now!
Its a damn shame you have so few subs. A good quality voiceover, and a full guide to get up and running, for most. Found this video looking for how to use this program, as I had no clue how to start the process yet alone get my disc to show up, and solved every problem I had and got it set up in a way that is performing perfectly. I had used a trial version of db something, which produced only corrupted tracks that no program could recognize, and feared I would spend considerable time finding a replacement that at least got that far.
I already have a great DVD ripper that let me put my collection on my media server, but bought my first CD a bit ago and it wasn't able to rip CDs. Looking to get all the songs I tend to listen to on RUclips, as it is ad free music I will own and could listen to anywhere.
dBpoweramp is probably fine, it might just be the flac binary it ships with, or that you already had that is causing the corrupt tracks. There is known issues with some earlier versions of FLAC that can cause tracks to be corrupt.
If you attempt to rip uncompressed wav files instead, they'd probably be fine. This issue also affects EAC tbh, and any other ripping software, since it is the conversion from wav to flac that is causing it.
Not worried about subs lol, I just made this for my friends ^^
Thanks for including the command-line text. Tried a few different ones and this is the only one that successfully filled in the tags.
Best guide in internet, thank you.
thank you so much for putting this together. Started Ripping my CD collection and so far all is going well
What an excellent tutorial. You nailed it. Thanks a million!
Followed the directions (my ver. was slightly different), changed everything you showed. Came out perfect. Thank You !
Very helpful. Haven't managed to get the AccurateRip to display yet, so followed the rest of the instructions. After watching the clip used the written guide you created, thank you very much!
This kept happening to me as well. I had uninstalled and reinstalled multiple times. Then I tried keeping the GD3 Metadata plugin in the original set up, and then finally got the AccurateRip to pop up! I don't know if this will help but it might be worth a shot
Excellent job. I greatly appreciate your effort to educate the community. Now, I would like to figure out how to make CD from my saved files.
Best tutorial ever! I watched the entire video and I don't even have any of that software downloaded. I will re-watch this again when I get around to installing the software and burning some CDs.
This was a great tutorial! I've been getting back into physical media and this was very easy to understand. Bless you, laddie!
happy to help ^^
The other thing about logs and cue sheets is that they can be used by databases such as MusicBrainz to determine accurate Disc ID's, and even assign ISRC's to tracks on a CD and thus be able to link the same recordings (typically songs) across different albums.
In general their information is good to have for any sort of database editing, on different fronts.
Submitting the log also allows for AcoustID retrieval.
shaRky - Thank you for taking the time and effort to produce this excellent, easy to understand and follow, video tutorial on the setup and use of the EXACT AUDIO COPY to rip CDs into the FLAC format. Your instructions saved me from "most certain" headaches in setting up this program. Thanks again!
No problem, happy to help :)
@@sharky1112 mine is still ripping to .WAV , so annoying
@@danielwilder7835 based on your other comment, I imagine this is because you're on beginner mode and probably skipped thru portions of the video (since you wouldn't be on beginner mode otherwise)
EAC Options > Tools > the very last setting;l turn it off.
Then, go to Compression Options > External Compression then follow from 13:23
make sure you have the exact path to your flac.exe set as well, since that is a common issue. (the ending has to edit with "/flac.exe" , it can't be the folder that flac.exe is located in.
@@sharky1112 god it's taken me three hours to work this program out, nightmare... i didn''t skip, some of my gui is different to yours.
@@danielwilder7835 its only different because beginner mode is enabled, it hides all advanced settings (most of the ones you have to set)
This was an amazingly detailed tutorial!
A really great tutorial that's easy to follow and understand! Thank you for you work
GUYS, DON'T FORGET to see the description of this video! It has all special characters showed in 9:17 and the command line, showed in 14:01 😉😊
For some reason, the special characters that I copied don't work
@@KitsuneNoNatsu Do this: copy the description of this video and paste it in the Windows Notepad (if you do not use Windows, use the notepad of your O.S.), because it will erase the formatation, then copy it from notepad and paste it on the EAC blank spaces. Try it. I think it will work. This was what I've done and worked very well!
Pls make more videos! You are so good! Best description
Nice new gift. thanks! Onto ripping bad discs hopefully bring them back to better shape : )
Thank you very much sir, nicely explained and the special characters are a game changer in my entire digital organization method.
Thank you very much! Had problem with mine, was always crashing til I found your video.
Thank you, really helpful.
The Character Replacements function caused big problems. They stopped the resulting files from being recognised by LMS - Logitech Media Studio.
A suggested set-up for practical everyday use rather than perfect use, and for mp3 would be great also.
Thanks again.
Hi, the character replacements are optional as per the video. They are however, supported by all modern music players, windows, Mac and Linux as well as iOS/Android Devices. Sorry to say but Logitech Media Studio is shit if it can't handle them, and they were chosen for practical everyday use, not for being 'perfect'.
The most important factor in using character replacements is that they work on windows. This is why the defaults are hyphens and x's, precisely because they work on windows. The replacements I listed also work on windows, which makes them as practical as they will ever be.
Secondly, don't use EAC if you wish to rip MP3s, the entire point of using EAC is for bit perfect quality, you're going through more effort / taking longer to rip the files to do so. If you choose to rip MP3 with EAC you will be taking at the very least 2x longer than any other program to rip the MP3 files which cannot be perfect because they are mp3 to begin with. In spite of this, there IS a section in the written guide for users who wish to rip with MP3.
docs.google.com/document/d/1b1JJsuZj2TdiXs--XDvuKdhFUdKCdB_1qrmOMGkyveg/edit?usp=sharing
The only differences between the two setups is changing the file path in external compression options to mp3.exe, the file extension to .mp3 and the command-line to either a MP3 V0 or MP3 320 suitable command-line (or a lesser format if you feel so inclined)
Again, this is covered in the written guide should you want to waste your time ripping MP3s with EAC, specifically in the "External Compression" section.
Thanks a lot for the tutorial, very well done. All the important details and no fluff.
I really appreciate the effort you put into making this tutorial, you did a fantastic job, thank you!
Seriously very good tutorial! I saved it for futur reference... Thanks
Kobaryo c:
Thanks dood. Just ripped my Arcaea Sound Collection c:
15:40 marks the end of the setup process.
was looking for something like this for so long....great stuff
THANK YOU, MY GOOD SIR,!!!
Excellent tutorial
Wow, What an amazing training video. Thank you so much.
Is there away to rip and entire CD into "one" single .wav file?
Choose "copy selected range" as opposed to "test and copy selected tracks" (you could use test and copy on the selected range instead, but thats a waste of time if youre not going for a "perfect" rip
Amazing job! Thanks for the guide!
Thanks so much for this video dude! It really helped me.
Great tutorial a newbie like myself! Thank you!
Thanks man! Been wanting to rip my No More Tears cd for awhile.
18:39
Holy moly! This guy has ripped 4k CD's lol.
I feel like that information should be in the title lol.
Great video compiling this information, I really appreciate it! I'll be sharing this with others who want to rip their CD's!
This was a great guide, thank you!
Hey, friend, can you help me, please? The AccurateRip pop-up is not showing with any disc, I tried a lot of discs, including the most popular ones. I don't know if it is because I had EAC installed before. I deleted the program and installed it again (maybe there's a residual cache file somewhere?)
EAC saves the drive's offset (The thing you're setting up by enabling AccurateRip) as a registry key. Deleting EAC doesn't remove the registry key, and if you by chance use(d) dBpoweramp, they share the same registry key so it's possible that AccurateRip has already been enabled.
To confirm whether this is the case, go to "Drive Settings" (top left corner) then "Offset/Speed" and if the top half of the tab is greyed out + you are able to enable the "Enable accuraterip with this drive" button, then you already have accuraterip enabled and you can skip that step.
Alternatively, maybe you enabled beginner mode which would cause you to be unable to activate accuraterip. Go to EAC Options > Tools then at the bottom make sure that beginner mode isn't enabled.
Only other reasons for accuraterip to not pop up despite trying many CDs would be because either EAC doesn't have access to the internet, or the PC itself doesn't have access to the internet or; the discs are somehow all too badly damaged and EAC can't read any of them (though this is very unlikely)
@@sharky1112 thank you very much for your reply.
I've figured out that I already had the AccurateRip configured from my previous EAC installation.
By the way, thanks for this video and the text guide. It's awesome that you had so much work to help other people.
Very useful to me. Thank you so much!!!
Thanks alot Brother! Been looking for a way to Rip my CDs and this is Perfect! Im about to start on 500 Cds uncompressed 😁
As long as you're okay outputting WAV files, since 'uncompressed' doesn't convert them to FLAC.
@@sharky1112 I think I am 🤔
@shaRky Are there any Key Changes I should make from the settings in this Video if I was only going to Rip in Wav?
@@zacktinayoutube No, but be aware that tags won't be properly written to the WAV files since WAV doesn't support tagging natively.
Very detailed! Thank you so much
Why did my comment I just posted disappear?
I was saying I have a 40yr old CD (MJ - Thriller) that won’t rip not even at 0.1x speed. I think it’s a foreign pressing and someone told me about offset, but have no idea how to do it. Something about lead in? Or try burst mode. Cd looks new and I’m surprised it won’t work. It plays fine in a CD player but when it spins it makes a bit of noise. What would you suggest? Thank you
Enabling accuraterip (the first step in the video) determines your offset. Lead in/lead out is a setting you can enable in your Drive Settings, it only works with certain drives and the ones it doesnt work with, it causes your rips to get a suspicious position error on the last track of every disc you rip. You can try enabling it but it probably wont make the copy rip.
If you go into drive settings and select either burst mode or paranoia mode, you will be able to rip the disc because neither has error correction. Any problems that eac was trying to correct will be skipped over, which usually allows you to rip the disc. Just keep in mind, doing this will cause parts of your rip to have skips, clicks and distortion assuming you encounter errors (which it sounds like you will).
Damaged discs can play in cd players because the cd player is built to correct errors whereas cd drives are not.
It being a foreign pressing doesnt matter for ripping, but if its genuinely 40 years old it might have disc rot which would make it, or at least parts of it unrippable.
If the disc has no visible damage you could try other drives to see if one will rip it, but the "just try other drives" option is usually not available to anyone who isnt a serious fanatic with a crate of extra drives at their disposal
@@sharky1112 I used burst mode, no errors were found, music sounds good. No rot, looks like new. It really is that old (1982).
I thank you for all the information and help with setup.
Only thing which wasn't clear to my slow brain, was the linking pathway for FLAC being back to the EOCfolder saved in Programs. Couldn't see how you did this so quickly.
You can copy the path, then paste it into eac if you want to, which is what i did
El mejor tutorial, excelentemente explicado.
THANK YOU!! I appreciate you so much! i got to enjoy high quality music now lol
Take care.
How do I know if my drive is capable of Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out? I bought an "ATA DRW-24F1ST d" in 2021.
To quote a written EAC guide
"If you want to figure out whether your drive needs "Overread into Lead-in and Lead-Out" checked, you can check by temporarily unchecking "Use AccurateRip with this drive". Stick a CD in the drive and hit "Detect read sample offset correction...". If you're just doing this for the Overread, see below:
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Check "Overread Lead-In and Lead-Out" only if the test result says that your drive can overread from both the Lead-In and Lead-Out, or if it says Lead-Out and your offset correction is positive, or if it says Lead-In and your offset correction is negative. Otherwise disable (uncheck) it."
Once you've figured out if your drive is capable you'd want to re-enable 'use AccurateRip with this drive' btw.
Thank you - you are a lifesaver!
Why's it important to enable drive caching? EAC itself states that the option can cause unnecessary risk to the rip quality, and it takes substantially longer for the rip to complete.
The intention of this guide is to provide people with the information needed to receive a log file that scores 100% as well as a perfect copy.
The log file is scored based on the settings used/not used and, because it does not take into account each specific drive model and whether they can handle c2 error correction correctly or whether they can make use of the cached data it will indiscriminately score the log with deductions if C2 Error correction is enabled and if Caches audio data is disabled. So, doesn't matter what the setting does in the end, if you want a 100% log you have to leave it enabled.
As for the perfect rip aspect. This does not harm the rip in any way to leave on if your drive doesn't make use of it.
So, because it's a required setting when going for a 100% log and because it can't make your perfect rip not perfect I am saying to have it enabled.
You're welcome to leave it off if you're worried. I would encourage you to look for more information regarding it being damaging to your drive. I don't believe it is. Also, was the source of this information: wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=EAC_Drive_Options this link? It's 13 years old and a public wiki, it's not indicative of EACs actual stance.
Edit: I Inquired further, and there are no threads in any private music communities expressing concern over this particular setting, whether you believe that or feel its sufficient to enable it is up to you.
thank you so much!
In the "Character Replacements" setup, I'd tell viewers to look at you written guide for characters to paste into this dialog.
Sure, but I can't make such a change to an existing video :P
@@sharky1112 Actually I noticed later that you have the special characters in the notes after your video.
By the way, how do you know that Paranoid and Burst modes don't result in a perfect bit-for-bit copy?
@@ajlenze8 Paranoid mode is ancient. It does half of what 'secure mode' does (re-reads each sector twice) but, in very small blocks causing significant stress on your drive. The creator of EAC hasn't suggested using the setting since at least 2007.
(Note that paranoid mode is the same as burst mode with no error correction so the same argument can apply there)
www.exactaudiocopy.de/en/index.php/2007/03/15/what-is-paranoid-mode-and-why-is-it-not-recommended/
Burst mode does not have "error correction" which means that it will skip over any piece of data you can't read on your first attempt. This sounds fine because as long as the CD is brand new it should be fine, right?
The problem is that optical drives have very little (if any) error correction/handling on their own. It's common for drives not to be able to read brand new discs with 100% accuracy. Generally, even on the most prestine CDs you'll notice your "Track Quality: %" will be lower than 100%. This means that error correction was applied to the rip. The lower the % the more correction was applied.
In practice, when you use burst mode you are likely to encounter data that your drive can't read in one go. You will skip over said data and it will result in no longer being bit perfect but also may contain audible errors (pop/skip/clicks/static)
@@sharky1112 It sounds like you're saying that all modes COULD create an exact copy, but Secure mode has the best chance to do so, especially if there are some errors. If you had said that, I would have totally agreed, but I've seen Paranoid mode result in the same checksums as Secure mode, which means that both are reading the data the same.
@@ajlenze8 If you feel more comfortable using a setting the owner of the program advises against using and toutes as being worse than Secure Mode, by all means you should do it.
While all modes can achieve a perfect copy in an ideal scenario, you are very unlikely to do so and it would be ill advised to tell people they should use a mode that takes even longer than secure mode while ruining their drive (without error correction mind you) because there is a chance it can perform correctly.
Since over 70% of consumer drives (per Spoon's accuraterip results) have an accuracy of 95% or lower - the statistical likelyhood of you performing a perfect rip with any other mode is not sufficient to recommend it.
Hello, I got a Sony walkman and ripped a few cds using Sony Media Center. Should I start over using this EAC? I compared songs ripped with Sony Media Center to few songs I ripped with EAC and they (flacs) were same kb vbr. Is the quality better with EAC? Should I start over? Thank you
brilliant guide
Holy based Kobaryo bg and music taste
Thank you excellent tutorial
Immensely helpful.
Thank you so much, excellent tutorial. You have my like and subscription. Question: What is the purpose of Cue Sheets?
They are used to burn the files back to a CD.
Only other usecase is using a type of cuesheet to split a single disc image rip (which you aren't doing here)
The type of cuesheet you are shown how to create will additionally retain the gaps between each track so that when the files are burnt back to the CD the original position of each track (and thus their intended playback) will be preserved.
@@sharky1112 Got it. Thank you.
They can also be used to add codes such as ISRC to database sites like MusicBrainz.
How would I know what directory to store something I haven't even see before. Save WHAT? Save it to Where, a FOLDER? I put stuff in folders but that is NOT a directory. I don't even know what this means.
Thank you bro
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@sharky1112 Why is it that during the uncompress or compress process, only wav files appear in the folder, but no Flac files? Please, thank you
The files are extracted in .wav and then later compressed as a final step when choosing "Test & Copy -> Selected Tracks -> Compressed"
If that isn't happening and you're not seeing a "file creation error" appearing, then it's due to your "Compression settings" within the "External Compressor" tab being incorrect.
Most commonly, this is due to the path to *.flac.exe being incorrect.
@@sharky1112 thank you broo,,, is done 👍
Does this appear ok?
This was from ripping a single track- Exact Audio Copy V1.6 from 23. October 2020
EAC extraction logfile from 2. March 2024, 21:08
Wings / Wings at the Speed of Sound
Used drive : HL-DT-STDVDRAM GP65NB60 Adapter: 1 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : Yes
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Appended to previous track
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 128 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Pre-gap length 0:00:01.65
Peak level 99.3 %
Extraction speed 1.6 X
Track quality 99.9 %
Test CRC 177E98F6
Copy CRC 177E98F6
Accurately ripped (confidence 200) [26F2CD86] (AR v2)
Copy OK
All tracks accurately ripped
No errors occurred
End of status report
Yes, that's good.
Thanks for the tutorial, Really of great help. One question: If I use another DVD/CD drive to rip, do I need to go through all the options again, or just those options under 'Drive'?
Youll need to activate accuraterip for the other drive, at most you may additionally have to change the gap detection method but besides that no, the rest of your settings will be saved. I would suggest saving profiles for each drive so that you dont have to change the settings a bit each time you switch drives
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Thank you!
thank you so much this was so easy and I didn't know intill now that windows media players sucks this is awesome
Great tutorial; helps out a bunch. If I want to save my file as 01 - Dance Song | 02 - Jazz Song | how would I format this in the various artist naming scheme? Thanks.
I dont have eac in front of me, but i believe it would be %tracknr2% - %title%
Look at the legend, if "title" isnt valid its probably %tracktitle% or %song title% or something similar.
Thanks man! This is a great guide! I wanted to note that I can't get Asian text to write onto the cuesheet following your steps. No matter what there's no option for the cuesheet to encode in UTF-8 or UTF-16 as it will always encode the sheet in ANSII. Any other work around like exporting to CDPlayer.ini is useless as I want the metadata to be transferred from EAC to each individual tracks. Now I have to create my own cuesheet in UTF-16, transfer the metadata from the ANSI to it then manually input the tags myself which is what I did not want sigh..
Is there a way to just encode the entire CD as one single .wav or .flac file with a cuesheet? I haven't figured it out. I did it long ago I believe but it's been years.
In order to get cuesheets to output in another encoding you'll need to change your locale. Being on any of the english locales will output ANSI so, change to japanese and you'll get shift-jis encoded cues instead which handles unicode characters.
Keep in mind that EAC preserves the encoding of metadata submitted to the metadata provider so once and a while you'll import metadata and the cuesheet will output in some non-shift-jis format.
As far as sharing these rips goes - the majority of peoples cuesheets are completely broken for unicode characters/non-latin characters and there's really no problem.
The cuesheet is already "broken" when created because you're converting your files to FLAC. It only functions when the files are .wav so - people really don't look at the tags within the cuesheet, the only concern is that it retains the gaps if ever someone really wants to burn the files back to CD.
When burning back to CD you'd modify the tags within the cuesheet yourself to your liking. This is to say, you can safely ignore your cuesheets tags when ripping if you're not personally burning the files back to CD.
As for how to rip a single file, you choose range rip. Actions -> Copy selected range (iirc, don't have the program open rn to confirm)
If you're going to rip it ""incorrectly""" per private tracker standards you may as well also not use "Test & Copy" as that will slow down the rip by 2x and, possibly change your rip settings from "Secure Mode" to "Burst Mode" to reduce your time ripping by another 2x.
Aaaaweesoome! ThX for doing this!!!
How can I manually set the cd cover art? I just want to add a jpg or jpeg as the cd cover but dragging the image or right clicking the box doesn't allow for adding an image, it's grayed out.
This is due to Windows being terrible. Your windows explorer has lower permissions than EAC does which forbids you from dragging images into EAC from windows explorer.
There is a solution, and I will write it below but I would highly recommend just putting the cover.jpg into the folder you are ripping to. When you attach it on EAC all it does is go into the folder so just skip the middleman and put it there yourself.
As for the solution, you will need to run a program with a context menu allowing you to access your files in administrator mode to give you the same permission elevation as EAC. Then, open the context menu and search for the cover art you want to put in EAC. Once found, drag it from this open context menu into EAC. Not worth it, right?
thank you for the tutorial
Depends what you mean by "so long" , but if your rips are taking anywhere between 20 minutes and 2 hours that's expected. ~1h should be the average per rip.
The main reason why EAC takes so long is due to two specific settings:
Test & Copy which rips the CD twice, producing two seperate CRC values, the point of this setting is to verify that between two different rips, the audio EAC extracted was identical, if the data wasn't identical there'd be a "CRC Mismatch" (when the Test CRC and Copy CRC don't match) which would mean that something's off with the rip, or specific tracks in the rip.
Secure Mode reads each sector of your disc twice. Then, if there is any trouble reading a specific section of the disc - it will re-read those sectors multiple times until it's able to pull all of the data (this is error correction - that thing where the blocks light up red in EAC's ripping ETA window) so at minimum this takes 2x as long to rip a CD as oppose to something that only reads the sectors once, and if any error correction needs to be applied it will take much longer to finish the rip.
So TL;DR - Two settings meant to make your rip more accurate / verify that the rip was done accurately cause you to rip the CD 2 times and read the data on the disc ~4 times.
If you did away with error correction, cached audio, split tracks, compressing files and test & copy you could get EAC to rip discs in ~10 minutes or so. But the end result would not be very accurate.
@@sharky1112 okay so that's fine. For me it's usually around 1-1.5hour . Thank you!
@shaRky....Why do some CDs still show as a .wav file after ripping them with EAC as a flac file? Do I have to use another program now to make them flac files? I ripped a double CD set and now the folder has two differwnt songs as track 1, two different songs as track 2, etc.
Edit: Apparently the program became corrupted because I reinstalled it and I already noticed that the compressed file size of songs reads correctly now. It was showing 4 or 5MB file sizes before reinstallation.
Hi, this is the best guide i've seen on EAC. Quick question: Do you know if it possible to force the CUE Sheet to produce UTF8? I have tried for ages, but it seems some people can do it. Lots of my CD's are vintage Japanese CD's so that would save a bunch of steps!
Be on Japanese locale or emulate Japanese locale and run EAC thru your emulator. CUE sheet is decided by the locale you're on as well as the encoding the files are in at the time of you hitting "import" on one of the database entries. EAC isn't going to write your CUEs in UTF8 unless the text from the database is in UTF8, but it will write most of them in shift-js which works with japanese characters.
Is there a definitive reason you NEED them to be in UTF8 btw? If it's to share to a private tracker there are no requirements for the CUE to be in a specific encoding, the only important factor of the CUE is that it preserves the timings / gaps of the disk. You're already doing that so there should be no issues. It's really simple to re-encode the cue sheets as well, I'm sure theres a number of ways to batch convert them all once you're done ripping everything to.
@@sharky1112 thank you for your reply. I thought I was looking for utf-8 cuesheets but I guess really I just need the cue sheet to display Japanese characters (and English). Yes, the database's, EAC and foobar all have no issue displaying the characters. Just can't get the cue sheet to output Japanese, it comes out as dots. I have even added utf-8 symbols in eac but the cue sheet is always ANSI. The dots don't change when encoding with notepad++ BTW, The cue sheet is important as I prefer to make an image of the album (not seperate track files), and embedding the sheet with all the details is quick in foobar. Many thanks if you can help. Also, I subbed!
@@southerncharity7928
I own a community for sharing Doujin music (independently released japanese music) and *nobody* has gotten EAC to consistently output CUE sheets in UTF8, it's not possible. A number of different people have inquired / looked into it but the only consensus is to use japanese locale to get shift-js, and sometimes if needed re-encode with unicue or CueTools.
If you end up needing to use Unicue or CueTools, CueTools is pretty self explanatory and english while Unicue is Chinese and has no english translation so... here's a translation:
切换到转换字符串 (Change encoding)
输出编码 (Output Encoding)
保存（覆盖） (Save and overwrite)
另存（Save as...)
To actually re-encode you'd drag the .cue file into unicue, then hit '另存'"
i.imgur.com/c1fek4A.gif
Unicue: github.com/kuyur/unicue/archive/master.zip
CueTools:
cue.tools/wiki/CUETools_Download
The community may be of interest to you as well given the type of music you're ripping, if you want to check it out it's discord.gg/doujincafe
Thank you Sharky for the guide. Could you tell me what percentage of accuracy from accurate rip should be expected in the log file to know you have a perfect or near perfect copy of your Flacs?
Accuraterips only real purpose is to set your drives offset value for you.
I assume by percentage you are looking at the "track quality" value under each track in the log?
The value here only indicates the percentage of error correction that was applied to the track during the ripping process. 100% means none, 99.9% means 0.01% error correction was applied.
Error correction being applied doesnt indicate it isnt perfect and in many cases will be unavoidable, so this value should be ignored.
Your log file will let you know when errors are present in the ripping process. These errors indicate the rip is not perfect. If there are none then it is reasonable to assume it is as close to perfect as it can be.
The errors are "timing problem(s)" "suspicious position(s)" or, the test CRC and copy CRC values do not match (called a CRC mismatch) and these errors tend to appear when EAC displays "read/sync error" during the ripping process
One thing I'm doing on my CD rips is I use canned air to blow off any dust on the CD. Then I take a microfiber cloth to clean the disk and remove any smudges. I do wonder how people get perfect rips when they have dust on their CD's as I don't see how the laser can read the data there when dust is on the CD.
It can.
Hello, I have followed your guide exactly but unfortunately I keep getting an error which is really bugging me. My log file is saying that all of my tracks are acurately ripped, but when I listen to one of the tracks there is a brief moment in the song (less than a second) where the audio just cuts out. I have played the cd back on its own and there is no issue at all. Any idea on how to solve this? Thanks.
Look in your log file on the track in question and see if either "Timing Problem(s)" "Suspicious Position(s)" or the Test CRC and Copy CRC of the track are different, these three errors would indicate there is a reasonable explination for the skip to be present.
If this is the case, there isn't anything that can guarentee a perfect copy but you can try the following:
If its suspicious positions/timing problems go to EAC -> Drive Options -> Offset/Speed -> disable 'lead in/lead out'
If its a CRC mismatch (the test and copy crc of the track are different) you could try:
Cleaning the cd then re-ripping
Re-ripping just the track with audible errors
Going into EAC Options - > Drive Options -> Spin up drive before extraction then re-ripping just the track with the error
Trying ripping the CD with a different cd drive
Things I would advise against, as there is no guarentee that it will stop crc mismatches. It might be a waste of money
Buying a new drive to rip the CD then trying w/ the new drive - It's seemingly random whether the drive will be capable of obtaining the damaged sectors, some can some can't and there is no way to know until you try
Buying a new copy of the CD - Some CDs are badly pressed and consistently produce CRC mismatches across multiple copies/drives
DIY/Commerically resurface the existing CD/new copy if there are visible scratches - may completely ruin the CD so keep that in mind
Help, my DVD read writer has "printed" over my cd while ripping. Effectively destroying the lable artwork! Is this a setting mistake that I've made?
Nothing shown in my video can mistakenly do this. Retail CDs also can't be written over in this way. I don't know what you did, but it took multiple mistakes to pull off
It worked! I used a Black Queen CD (Infinite Games) hehehhe. Super.
The accuraterip configure pop up never showed, but the logo pops up on the bottom right corner when I popped a cd in. Does that mean it is still activated?
Dont think so, but you can confirm by going to drive options -> offset/speed and looking to see if the top half of this tab is greyed out, and whether or not you can enable "use accuraterip with this drive" , if its not greyed out/you cant then it isnt setup
Pardon-me my insistance : Despite th pop-up never shows up, I have the Accurate Rip logo at the bottom on the right corner!?!? It's really confusing!
Hello! While configuring metadata options, the CueTools plugin doesn't seem to show up under metadata providers. Any idea why this is happening? I'm using EAC 1.6 if that helps.
No idea, besides potentially not selecting it when you first installed EAC as one of the plugins you want to have installed.
You can install it after the fact, see here: cue.tools/wiki/CTDB_EAC_Plugin
thanks for this video! it was a great help. I do have a question though, on average how long does it take to rip a cd? I have a LG BR drive that's capable of 40x, and I feel like it all ways takes at least an hour for one rip. I have 2 other drives I can also try. but I think it's going to be the same. I do understand that it rip times can vary from cd to cd since they aren't all the same length and how damaged they are with scratches. I've considered switching over to burst mode because when I tested it, I could rip a cd in 8/12 mins.
20 mins up to 2 hours is what i see, generally that number is closer to around 30 minutes.
That said, "secure mode" reads each sector twice at minimum, and if it encounters a sector it cant read it will perform "error correction" which re reads the damaged sectors over and over again (or predetermined number of times) until it can extract the data,
Then, test and copy rips the cd twice. In total, secure mode and t&c increase the rip time by 4 at minimum.
Burst mode with no test and copy will be significantly faster but will skip over errors if they occur.
The video is meant to show which settings to use to rip a "100% log" or perfect copy but as long as no errors occur, a burst mode no t&c rip will sound exactly the same. Its understandable if you wanna go that route
I wonder why the manufacturer of the program does not provide such settings by default, since the program assumes that it should copy music from CDs without a scratch.
Thank you for an awesome instructional vid! I have an issue though. I want to rip a live CD into one file which displays each track name as it plays. Is this possible?
Thank you!
Depends, you are able to perform a range rip which will rip the entire CD into a single file. The accompanying cuesheet you create will then split the files into individual tracks within your music player.
Whatever you're using needs to support the use of cuesheets and, given you are essentially just splitting the range rip into individual tracks within the music player it would be the same thing as just ripping individual tracks imo.
To do a range rip, Action -> copy range
then, for the cue Action -> create cue sheet -> pick the one relating to range rips, i forget what its called.
Novice Here.
Great Tutorial - Thank You.
I have EAC software installed (I really like it) and can Rip/Burn without problems.
However my question is:
Can I Rip WAV files for a CD and save these to a memory stick so they can be played as a whole album (with gaps) on an external device..........or do I need another program for this?
Many Thanks In Advance.
You'd select actions -> test & copy selected range -> uncompressed
There's probably no point in using test & copy for this, so if you want it to go 2x faster just select "copy selected range" then pick uncompressed.
Be aware WAV files don't retain tags the same way FLAC files do. External devices should be able to FLAC files and most hardware you'd be playing it on does to. So, unless yours can't I would stick with FLAC.
Whenever I rip a cd with the software with all the information.
The info (excluding the file name) for the contributing artist and album name doesn’t show up after the cd is done ripping to my computer (when I click on the folder). Is this normal, or how can I fix it?
If you open your files up in a music player, tag editing software or even by inspecting them and opening preferences, are the tags present? If yes, then it's a file explorer issue. If no, then it's the "Compression" settings in EAC, in particular "External Compressor" tab, where I note pasting in the custom args, make sure this has been correctly copy and pasted. RUclips started translating descriptions automatically so it might have fucked up the parameters.
As for file explorer:
If you're on Windows 7 it's normal because Win7 doesn't officially support reading FLAC metadata in file explorer. You have to use a third party app to add that functionality.
If you're on windows 8+ and this is happening, chances are that either your file explorer view is incorrectly setup, possibly for "general" view as opposed to detailed view or for music files.
Alternatively, if you embed cover art larger than approximately 2MiB to the files a process in file explorer that reads the metadata will overflow due to the padding size and crash, no longer rendering tags in the Title, Artist, Album etc fields. Only way to fix this in particular would be to embed smaller images and for existing rips with huge embeds you'd have to both de-embed the artwork and remove the excess padding.
Do you know how would I compress to APE instead of FLAC? There exists a guide on HydrogenAudio but it conflicts with some things on your guide, such as "Use CRC check" and "Check for external programs return code." Should I just ignore this? Other than changing the external compressor I'm aware cli options may need to be changed but I'm not sure which. I know APE isn't the standard for sharing but it's more convenient for my personal library in some scenarios. Thanks for all your help and sorry for asking so many questions.
Change the file extension to .ape,
change the path to wherever wapet.exe is,
change the additional command line encoder to "%dest% -t "Artist=%artist%" -t "Title=%title%" -t "Album=%albumtitle%" -t "Year=%year%" -t "Track=%tracknr2%" -t "TotalTracks=%numtracks%" -t "Genre=%genre%" -t "Album Artist=%albumartist%" -t "DiscID=%cddbid%" "MAC.exe"
%source% %dest% -c2000 -v " (without quotes)
You can disable 'use crc check' but I wouldn't untick 'Check for external programs return code', and I wouldn't enable 'Add ID3 Tag'
hello im getting an external compression error and it stops ripping so i can acknowledge it then it saves as a wav ive tried a few things but no luck
Try downloading the latest version of flac from their official site (iirc its ver 1.4.4) then saving it somewhere youre sure eac has permission to access. Then go to your compression tab and change the location of your flac.exe to that new location.
My assumption is either you dont have permission to access flac, your location is only pointing to the folder flac.exe is located and not directly to flac.exe, or..
Youre ripping to a network drive like your NAS or something, and it doesnt have a letter mapped to it which is confusing the compressor. You can map your network drive so that it can.
Also, i guess worth mentioning that RUclips auto translates the description of videos now so its possible the command line encoder is messed up if youre not an english speaker. You can try to copy it from within my google docs guide instead
@@sharky1112 sorted thanks for your detailed reply on a relatively old video i appreciate it , liking and subbing
@@sharky1112 I just set up EAC again on a new PC and got this error only on 2 tracks of the first CD I ripped, never happened to me before (using your tutorial).
I do now rip to a new drive with an assigned letter tho which is a difference for sure.
I know this is just an assumption game we are playing but I have it pointing to the correct flac.exe and my youtube doesn't try to translate the description either. Thought if permissions were messed up it would always fail or am I wrong on that?
Either way I am going to try and download that flac version and try again!
@@warlordwossman5722 If it's only on two tracks, I imagine it's actually a "file creation error" which occurs when there is an invalid character within the track name(s). Check and see if they contain any invisible characters or large amounts of empty space either at the front or end of the track.
This sort of thing happens when you copy the tracklist from a database site like discogs that uses a page left invisible character to format their text
@@sharky1112 strangely enough I only did those 2 tracks again and it just worked without any changes.
Tagged the CD with copied titles from metal archives so no excessive amount of spaces or anything.
But thank you anyways for all the help.