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--- cd [2026/01/05 23:30] – created dblume
+++ cd [2026/01/07 13:21] (current) – [FLAC and MP3 via EAC Exact Audio Copy] dblume
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 ====== Ripping CDs ======
+  * **FLAC** is lossless and consumes much more space than MP3s
+  * **MP3** ranges from 128Kbps to 320Kbps
 ===== MP3s via Windows Media Player =====
+:-( Windows Media Player's "Retrieve additional information from the Internet" is terrible.
   - Open Windows Media Player
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       - Retrieve additional information from the Internet
-===== FLAC via EAC Exact Audio Copy =====
+:-( I abandoned this effort.
+===== FLAC and MP3 via EAC Exact Audio Copy =====
+(Andre Wiethoff, the author of EAC also makes [[https://www.easyaudiocopy.com/faq.htm|Easy Audio Copy]], and games like [[https://puzzlesoftheday.com/en/slitherlink|Slitherlink]].)
+[[https://groups.io/g/ExactAudioCopy/message/29251|EAC can be used to rip to lossless WAV, convert to lossless FLAC, and also convert to MP3 in "one pass"]] (screenshots of preferences tabs).
+[[https://www.reddit.com/r/software/comments/ylxg33/perfect_cdripping_to_flac_with_exact_audio_copy/|Perfect CD-ripping to FLAC with Exact Audio Copy (Guide, How-to)]].
+  - EAC -> Metadata Options (maybe choose provider, not GD3)
+  - EAC Options -> General:
+    - Check "Use alternate CD Play routines" (Default)
+    - Check "Disable 'CD Autostart' for audio and data CDs while EAC running"
+    - Check "On unknown CDs," and select "automatically access online metadata database".
+  - EAC Options -> Naming Scheme
+    - ''FLAC\%artist%\%albumtitle%\%tracknr2% - %artist% - %title%''
+    - ''FLAC\Various Artists\%albumtitle%\%tracknr2% - %artist% - %title%''
+    - (Similar for the "Additional naming scheme", but change/remove FLAC)
+  - External Compression Options
+    - User Defined Encoder (FLAC here)
+    - .flac
+    - \Flac\flac.exe
+    - Additional command-line options: ''<nowiki>-8 -V -T "ARTIST=%artist%" -T "TITLE=%title%" -T "ALBUM=%albumtitle%" -T "DATE=%year%" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%tracknr%" -T "TRACKTOTAL=%numtracks%" -T "GENRE=%genre%" -T "PERFORMER=%albuminterpret%" -T "COMPOSER=%composer%" -T "ALBUMARTIST=%albumartist%" -T "DISCNUMBER=%cdnumber%" -T "DISCTOTAL=%totalcds%" -T "COMMENT=%comment%" %source% -o %dest%</nowiki>''
+      - Seems like we should prefer [[https://hydrogenaudio.org/index.php/topic,91496.msg773857.html|TRACKTOTAL to TOTALTRACKS and DISCTOTAL to TOTALDISCS]].
+  - Additional External Compression Options (MP3 here)
+    - [[https://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=EAC_and_Lame|tick "Add ID3 tag"]]
+    - Consider adding "Additional command line options" ''-V2 %source% %dest%''
+      - "-V2" means [[https://svn.code.sf.net/p/lame/svn/trunk/lame/USAGE|Variable Bitrate of about 190Kbps]], so maybe not what we want.
+      - Test the decoder to see what parameters are sent. [[https://groups.io/g/ExactAudioCopy/topic/eac_w_lame_exe_additional/78518468|The EAC author says how additional parameters get accounted.]]
+Here's [[https://groups.io/g/ExactAudioCopy/message/29260|a recommendation to write a huge FLAC file for the whole album with embedded cue sheet, metadata and album art, from which cuetools or Foobar2k could be used to bulk-convert to MP3s later]] (click "show quoted text" too).
-[[https://www.reddit.com/r/software/comments/ylxg33/perfect_cdripping_to_flac_with_exact_audio_copy/|Perfect CD-ripping to FLAC with Exact Audio Copy (Guide, How-to)]]
+  * [[https://www.foobar2000.org/|foobar2000]]
+  * [[https://cue.tools/wiki/CUETools|CUETools]]
 ===== Reference =====
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgxPyTBgu74