flacattack;576406 Wrote: > 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.
Not sure about the setup guides you are using, but there a NUMEROUS EAC setup guides on the web that are simply WRONG. Search hydrogenaudio.org on this topic. I strongly suggest you think about acquiring the reference version of dbpoweramp. Easier to setup and use, excellent metadata support, and much more. It's not free, but only the cost of a couple of CDs and well worth it. -- garym ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81984 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
