tyler_durden wrote: > Which begs the question, why convert 1 track at a time in EAC when you > can simply extract the entire CD in EAC them start flac and compress > all the tracks?
I'm not sure if you're suggesting ripping a disc to a single file, or simple ripping tracks to wav files then encoding afterwards. With that in mind, here are the reasons I rip direct to flac with EAC: 1. (single file) Not everyone is happy with/wants to rip CDs to single flac files - I personally prefer to have one track per file. 2. On a reasonably modern processor, the flac encoding takes less time than the ripping so EAC effectively encodes and rips at the same time (apart from the last track, of course) so it takes less time than ripping followed by a separate encoding step. > I actually ripped 20-50 CDs at a time, placing them in the appropriate > directories, then started flac and compressed/tagged/replaygained all > of them. Very simple. If you rip all tracks to wav first then encode separately, where do the tags come from? R. _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
