Author Topic: How to rip FLAC image with EAC and FLAC Frontend (Read 2188 times)

Corpseggrinder · « **on:** July 25, 2011, 04:00:53 PM »

Insert a disc you wanna rip in your DVD-ROM and open your EAC,if you don't have it yet, follow this link and download the latest version:
http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/en/index.php/resources/download/ . With this version you'll get a FLAC Frontend package witch you'll later need.
Install the version, and you are ready to start with setting you EAC to work properly.
Now when you do all this, you'll get screen looking like that:

So make sure you tag all the areas in blue, and select you DVD rom (brown square)

Then we are going to EAC settings, click EAC in top left corner and pick EAC options or just hit F9.
EAC extraction window:

General window:

Tools window:

Normalize window you leave as default.
File name window, in the „Naming sheme“ window insert %D\%C\%N - %T (I use this kind of a sheme), the rest you leave as it is.
Character Replacements & Catalog windows you skip/leave as they are.
Directories window; choose your destination folder where you like your rips to be filed.
Write window stays as default.

Interface window:

That completes setting in EAC options windows, click OK button.

Next is drive options, you Click again EAC menu, then choose „Drive options“ or just hit F10.

Extraction window:

Drive window:

Offset /speed window is very essential for your ripping some make sure your inserted data is correct.
Offset numbers for DVD-ROM's can be find on this page: http://www.accuraterip.com/driveoffsets.htm , if the automatic detection button doesn't find your correct offset (make sure you check it)

Gap detection window:

Writer winow you leave as default and click OK .

Then we go to Compression options in EAC menu is the third option or you just hit F11.
Waveform window you leave as default.

Extrenal compression window:
You neeed to instal here a FLAC compressor ( Flac frontend), and then list the detionation folder in the box (jus click browse).
Additional line command line enter : -8 -V -T "ARTIST=%a" -T "TITLE=%t" -T "ALBUM=%g" -T "DATE=%y" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%n" -T "GENRE=%m" -T "COMMENT=EAC FLAC-8" %s or for the new versions of EAC; v1.0 beta 2 use this one :
-8 -V %source% -T "ARTIST=%albumartist%" -T "TITLE=%title%" -T "ALBUM=%albumtitle%" -T "DATE=%year%" -T "GENRE=%genre%"

Comment window you leave as it is.

ID3 Tag window is mostly optional but you have to check options:

.
Click OK, and you're done. Go to the EAC menu again, choose „Profiles“ option, Save profile (or just hit Shift + F2), and save the EAC profile to desired destination.
Now You can rip your CD in lossless.

First you need to detect gaps, and you do it by going to „Action“ menu or hitting F4:

Then you hit „Action“ menu, Test&Copy Image&Create CUE Sheet, Uncompressed:

Select the destination folder again, press save and ripping is on:

You'll have to wait a bit and then youll get this screen:

Click twice ok and go to your destination folder where you must have your .wav file, .cue file, .log file:

Now to compress your .wav file you need your FLAC frontend that did intalled with EAC (only for versions 1.0), on 0.99 versions Frontend is separately installed.
Open the frontend, check „verify“ square, and push your compression level to 8 (same quality as 1-7, but less file size

).
Then you press „Add file(s)“ go to the destination folder where your .wav file is and press OPEN.
After that you press „Encode“ button, and your .wav is compressing to FLAC:

After command prompt window is closed, compression is done, go to your folder and check:

WAV file that is still in the folder you may remove.
And you have perfectly good FLAC image, with

CUE
Spoiler

REM GENRE "Brutal Death Metal"
REM DATE 2011
REM DISCID 9A08C00B
REM COMMENT "ExactAudioCopy v1.0b1"
PERFORMER "Hate Division"
TITLE "Strategy Of Obsolescence - CGG flac"
FILE "Hate Division - Strategy Of Obsolescence - CGG flac.wav" WAVE
TRACK 01 AUDIO
TITLE "01_Exitium (Intro) - CGG"
PERFORMER "Hate Division"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 02 AUDIO
TITLE "02_Strategy Of Obsolescence - CGG"
PERFORMER "Hate Division"
INDEX 01 00:38:72
TRACK 03 AUDIO
TITLE "03_Regression Of Reality - CGG"
PERFORMER "Hate Division"
INDEX 01 03:43:34
TRACK 04 AUDIO
TITLE "04_The Great Recession - CGG"
PERFORMER "Hate Division"
INDEX 01 07:23:11
TRACK 05 AUDIO
TITLE "05_Medicinal Perdition - CGG"
PERFORMER "Hate Division"
INDEX 01 10:25:16
TRACK 06 AUDIO
TITLE "06_Assimilation Of Death - CGG"
PERFORMER "Hate Division"
INDEX 01 13:32:11
TRACK 07 AUDIO
TITLE "07_A Slice Of Freedom - CGG"
PERFORMER "Hate Division"
INDEX 01 16:28:17
TRACK 08 AUDIO
TITLE "08_Parasitic Agenda - CGG"
PERFORMER "Hate Division"
INDEX 01 20:54:32
TRACK 09 AUDIO
TITLE "09_A Division Of Hate - CGG"
PERFORMER "Hate Division"
INDEX 01 24:52:51
TRACK 10 AUDIO
TITLE "10_Denialism - CGG"
PERFORMER "Hate Division"
INDEX 01 28:05:32
TRACK 11 AUDIO
TITLE "11_Tyranny Of The Weak - CGG"
PERFORMER "Hate Division"
INDEX 01 31:27:67

and LOG
Spoiler

Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 1 from 15. November 2010

EAC extraction logfile from 25. July 2011, 19:21

Hate Division / Strategy Of Obsolescence - CGG flac

Used drive : PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-111D Adapter: 0 ID: 0

Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No

Read offset correction : 48
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
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

Used output format : Internal WAV Routines
Sample format : 44.100 Hz; 16 Bit; Stereo

TOC of the extracted CD

Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
---------------------------------------------------------
1 | 0:00.00 | 0:38.72 | 0 | 2921
2 | 0:38.72 | 3:04.37 | 2922 | 16758
3 | 3:43.34 | 3:39.52 | 16759 | 33235
4 | 7:23.11 | 3:02.05 | 33236 | 46890
5 | 10:25.16 | 3:06.70 | 46891 | 60910
6 | 13:32.11 | 2:56.06 | 60911 | 74116
7 | 16:28.17 | 4:26.15 | 74117 | 94081
8 | 20:54.32 | 3:58.19 | 94082 | 111950
9 | 24:52.51 | 3:12.56 | 111951 | 126406
10 | 28:05.32 | 3:22.35 | 126407 | 141591
11 | 31:27.67 | 5:52.64 | 141592 | 168055

Range status and errors

Selected range

Filename H:\Hate Division - Strategy Of Obsolescence - CGG flac.wav

Peak level 99.7 %
Extraction speed 0.9 X
Range quality 99.9 %
Test CRC 00E08AF0
Copy CRC 00E08AF0
Copy OK

No errors occurred

AccurateRip summary

Track 1 not present in database
Track 2 not present in database
Track 3 not present in database
Track 4 not present in database
Track 5 not present in database
Track 6 not present in database
Track 7 not present in database
Track 8 not present in database
Track 9 not present in database
Track 10 not present in database
Track 11 not present in database

None of the tracks are present in the AccurateRip database

End of status report

==== Log checksum 2EDF581B38507705D39F39E8F6DCC7E804249690B2D8C873DF1333FEDC21C788 ====

==skinless== · « **Reply #1 on:** July 25, 2011, 04:34:15 PM »

Very nice tutorial mate now we have 2 full tutorials for this mater so people will have the choice

Corpseggrinder · « **Reply #2 on:** July 25, 2011, 04:55:01 PM »

Thanks skinno, I hope some of our members will use it

vit · « **Reply #3 on:** July 26, 2011, 03:31:55 AM »

k+ for the loads of effort you put in this tutorial

Corpseggrinder · « **Reply #4 on:** July 26, 2011, 03:56:04 AM »

Quote from: vit on July 26, 2011, 03:31:55 AM

k+ for the loads of effort you put in this tutorial

Thanks for the recognition mate

mutkeR · « **Reply #5 on:** July 26, 2011, 12:36:20 PM »

Really good tutorial, thanks!

Corpseggrinder · « **Reply #6 on:** July 26, 2011, 12:46:06 PM »

Quote from: mutkeR on July 26, 2011, 12:36:20 PM

Really good tutorial, thanks!

You're more then welcome

Mutilatory · « **Reply #7 on:** July 28, 2011, 07:54:01 AM »

A very nice tutorial thanks for this!

zombied · « **Reply #8 on:** July 28, 2011, 08:00:11 AM »

Why do one need to use flac frontend if there is an opportunity to use flac command line encoder and there are screenshots which show how to configure it? You only have to set the correct path to flac.exe and choose "test and copy & and create cue sheet->compressed". And there is no need to detect gaps if you creating image+.cue because EAC detects gaps automatically in this case.

Corpseggrinder · « **Reply #9 on:** July 29, 2011, 04:29:30 AM »

Quote from: zombied on July 28, 2011, 08:00:11 AM

Why do one need to use flac frontend if there is an opportunity to use flac command line encoder and there are screenshots which show how to configure it? You only have to set the correct path to flac.exe and choose "test and copy & and create cue sheet->compressed". And there is no need to detect gaps if you creating image+.cue because EAC detects gaps automatically in this case.

All cool matze, I know I could do this, but many here have and use frontend, so I thought to make it usefull

Bartman · « **Reply #10 on:** August 01, 2011, 05:16:54 PM »

wow CgG....you put very much effort in this.......lots of k+ for you!!

Corpseggrinder · « **Reply #11 on:** August 01, 2011, 05:22:47 PM »

Quote from: Bartman on August 01, 2011, 05:16:54 PM

wow CgG....you put very much effort in this.......lots of k+ for you!!

Thank you my good man

Zombie · « **Reply #12 on:** August 01, 2011, 07:48:59 PM »

Very nice. I used it myself to set up EAC. Though when it comes to the ripping process I have my own ways.

cipherglyph · « **Reply #13 on:** August 03, 2011, 08:13:16 PM »

Thanks for the useful instructions... this is better than most of the internet tutorials for EAC. Leave it to metal fans to go the extra mile.

Smkiller · « **Reply #14 on:** August 18, 2011, 02:03:06 PM »

I was having a lot of problem with ripping the past few days for some reason. Windows Media Player refused to work worth a shit (which is unusual for me, since it usually works just fine). Then I tried EAC, but it was going slow as fuuuuck. Then I followed this tutorial (up until the compression part) and it ripped at a nice speed, and I got all 4 albums ripped in the time that it was taking to rip 3 songs before that.

That said: Thank you for this.

Corpseggrinder · « **Reply #15 on:** August 18, 2011, 02:06:03 PM »

Quote from: Smkiller on August 18, 2011, 02:03:06 PM

I was having a lot of problem with ripping the past few days for some reason. Windows Media Player refused to work worth a shit (which is unusual for me, since it usually works just fine). Then I tried EAC, but it was going slow as fuuuuck. Then I followed this tutorial (up until the compression part) and it ripped at a nice speed, and I got all 4 albums ripped in the time that it was taking to rip 3 songs before that.

That said: Thank you for this.

Yup man, if the EAC setup is correct it gives fine results.

Smkiller · « **Reply #16 on:** August 21, 2011, 01:05:28 AM »

Alright, I'm not sure why but, with the same settings I was using before, it just randomly started going REALLY slow. I don't know why. I did EXACTLY what I did before, but it's going really slow now. It's weird because I had previously ripped the CD. I'm just trying to re-rip it so I can upload it as flac for you guys (I had converted it to mp3 320 before for my own use and accidently deleted the original files in the process). Any attempt to rerip it has been met with complete slowness.

==skinless== · « **Reply #17 on:** August 21, 2011, 01:19:57 AM »

Quote from: Smkiller on August 21, 2011, 01:05:28 AM

Alright, I'm not sure why but, with the same settings I was using before, it just randomly started going REALLY slow. I don't know why. I did EXACTLY what I did before, but it's going really slow now. It's weird because I had previously ripped the CD. I'm just trying to re-rip it so I can upload it as flac for you guys (I had converted it to mp3 320 before for my own use and accidently deleted the original files in the process). Any attempt to rerip it has been met with complete slowness.

Maybe you where ripping in burst mode,as its very fast when you do on burst mode.
But it can easily take 15 minutes for 1 album in secured mode.

Smkiller · « **Reply #18 on:** August 21, 2011, 01:54:35 AM »

Maybe... I'll give that a shot and see if it makes any changes. If it wasn't that, then it still confuses me that the speed of the rip would drastically change when it's the same album and the same settings...

Edit: Yeah, the burst mode is definitely going a lot faster than it was before. Same speed as it was on the first rip. I don't remember setting it to that, but 'ey, whatever works.

==skinless== · « **Reply #19 on:** August 21, 2011, 02:25:33 AM »

Pay attention to the X speed,when i ip cd it always rip around 4x or 5x which is very slow but secure.
If i use burst mode i can rip at over 30X so yeah secured mode is way slower,but i am not so sure it is really better.
The log is logging error anyway,most drive will rip as good in burst mode then in secured mode.
But the secured mode will produce less or 0 error on older cds or scratched cds with older drive.

Also maybe you where not testing before and was just ripping,most people here will rip by using (Test & copy image & create cuesheet)

If you are not doing this,you can see your previous rip log and see if this is showing.

Range status and errors

Selected range

Filename D:\VV\Fleshtized - Here Among Thorns.wav

Peak level 99.8 %
Extraction speed 0.4 X <------------------------------------
Range quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 1F6D705D <------------------------------------
Copy CRC 1F6D705D <-----------------------------------
Copy OK

Now see my extraction speed in green,its slow but take about 10 minutes per cd,which is the correct approximation time.
I hope this will help even more,if you don`t do a test & copy you should not see the one i made in yellow.
Also the range quality speak for its self.