Hi, after installing a squeezebox duet and Netgear readyNAS duo I want to rip all my CDs (only a couple of hundred) with no loss of sound quality. After a little research I've decided to go with FLAC.
I have installed EAC 0.99pb5 and configured it faithfully to a guide. Unfortunately, as this is my 1st post I am not allowed to use URL links but if you search "properly ripping to flac with eac 0.99" you should find the guide on filesharefreak. I originally set the destination as the music folder on my NAS using a UNC path (\\NAS-9A-93-40\media\music) and referring to the newest .exe from the flac website in the external compression tab. AS I say all settings are as per the tutorial I mention and all the drive offset setup etc worked fine. The first time I tried to rip a CD I got a file creation error. A blog by Jim Delahunt which you will find by searching "eac file creation error", suggested that pb5 doesn't like UNC paths and that the NAS would need to be mapped to a letter. No idea how to do this, but in the mean time I changed the destination to my desktop. This time a wav file was successfully created but when EAC reaches the 'compress track by external programme' stage a DOS box appears with the file path to the flac.exe on the header and a disclaimer asking me to type 'flac' for more info. Nothing else happens. If I type flac nothing happens. When I close the DOS box I get the external compressor error message detailing my options and file path to the .wav file. A notepad file is created in the same folder as the .wav listing the files as being accurately ripped (I've had a few goes). Interestingly the notepad file was created on my NAS in the first place but stating 'copy aborted'. I've tried linking to the flac.exe that came with EAC but no difference. I've tried adding %d to the end of the Additional command line options in Compression options as I've seen that in some tutorials but no difference. Does anybody have any ideas A) how I can persuade the flac converter to work and B) create the flac files directly onto the NAS in the first place rather than move them there from my laptop after creation? Sorry for the long post but from reading other forums (this is my 1st ever thread) the more info the better. As I said all settings are as per the filesharefreak link. Any/all help gratefully received. -- flacattack ------------------------------------------------------------------------ flacattack's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40486 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81984 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
