flacattack;576434 Wrote: > Thanks for quick replies guys. I have found a workaround where EAC rips > the files as .wav onto desktop. I then drag and drop these into flac > frontend with the output directory as the folder location on the NAS > (created manually). FLAC files are created directly onto NAS, I move > CUE file, notepad file and m3u file to folder on NAS then delete the > folder of .wav files from desktop. Seems to work OK. Tags are visible > in Squeezebox server on the NAS and the files play and sound fine. > Anyone see a problem with this method? Other than being a bit > laborious?
There's no reason to go through all that. Maybe you can't rip directly to the NAS, but you can certainly get Flac encoding from EAC working. I would triple check that you have the correct path to the flac.exe file specified in the compression options. If you've downloaded and installed Flac to C:\Program Files\FLAC, then it should be C:\Program Files\FLAC\flac.exe Then triple check the 'Additional command-line options' and make sure that spaces and double quotes are all in the right places. Sending flac.exe a bad command line option will keep it from running. A couple things I would recommend changing from that setup guide: Don't use the -8 compression level in your 'Additional command-line options'. It slows down the extraction and you'll gain very little extra compression over using the default -5 level. Remove the -8 and it will give you the -5 level. Then the following two changes. However, don't change either one until you've first gotten Flac encoding from within EAC to work. If an encoder windows opens and you watch what happens in that window, you might be able to figure out what's going wrong. In the EAC Options > Tools, check 'On extraction, start external compressors queued in the background'. This launches Flac to encode the just extracted file while EAC rips the next one. This speeds up the extraction process. Also, check 'Do not open external compressor window'. It's just annoying. > I imagine clicking the mp3 button in EAC is the same as shift+F6 but > I'll give it a go! Settings were from > http://filesharefreak.com/tutorials/properly-ripping-to-flac-with-eac-099/. > Thanks again for replies. Not exactly. The MP3 button is equivalent to Shift+F5 (Copy Selected Tracks Compressed). Shift+F6 is Test & Copy Selected Tracks Compressed. Test & Copy runs a test read pass on each track before the copy pass. It roughly doubles the time to rip a CD, but it gives you two CRC numbers for each track in the log file when you're done that you can compare. They should all match. -- JJZolx ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81984 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
