[sts9fan]

I have been using EAC for some time now with zero issues.  Recently I switched computers temporarily to upgrade my music server.  The new machine has XP on it and my older music server had 2000 Server.  On the old one when I downloaded the album tracks it would always at the track number in front of the track name.  It would also rip automatically to a folder with the artist-album name such as Beck-Mellow Gold.  Now on my  XP machine it no longer adds the track number and I have to make a folder.  The folder thing is no big deal but the track number is a royal PITA. I have looked in settings etc but could not find what may be different.  Any ideas?  Also can EAC rip straight to FLAC or does everyone reprocess the WAV after ripping?  How would one do that?

Thanks
Kris

[launche]

I need help as well, I've got some EAC questions too.  About FLAC and the folders as well.  I just started using EAC again and it's not too user friendly for me right now.  On this particular PC I'm running Windows XP.

[rajacat]

I have had no problems with EAC after following these setup instructions.http://www.carltonbale.com/project/cd-audio-extraction/

[BradJudy]

Sounds like you customized the config before and need to do that again - those are definitely items that need to be configured.  Both creating directories and the track number in the filename are configured via the filename tab in the options. 

I recommend saving a config profile once you get things the way you like, then you can copy the profile to new computers.  I also use the saved profile a lot if I want to change settings for a single job, then I just re-import the profile after I do the one-off job. 

All rippers essentially create a wav and convert, it's just that some do it silently.

[sts9fan]

can EAC be set up to produce FLAC?

[bpape]

I believe this is the string you want:

%A\%C\%N. %T

That gives a directory structure of ARTIST\CD TITLE\

Followed by the TRACK NUMBER and TRACK TITLE

Yes - EAC can call an external program to automatically convert the .wav to .flac and then automatically delete the .wav file.

The wiki on the Slim Devices site is also a good reference

http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?EACInstall

Bryan

[sammie]

I'm in the process of ripping my entire CD collection using a Win XP laptop with DVD RW drive.  And, I now can fully appreciate all the posts I've read on various sites about the senseless pain and torture that accompanies this tedious process, escially in my case - I think.   

I started with .wav files, then after coming to my senses so to speak, I used Foobar to convert them to Flac.  And, because everyone has a different opinion on how best to tag flac files, I've switch tagging strings a few different times.  So my file directory is all screwed up...some files are organized correctly (artist, title, album, etc.) and organized within nice, neat folders, but most of my files are single flac files.  Can I fix the directory screw ups using one of the tagging programs like mp3tag?  Or, is there something else do?   

Also, the Slimdevices wiki recommends when configuring the EAC to optomize for slimserver:

 -6 -V --replay-gain -T "artist=%a" -T "title=%t" -T "album=%g" -T "date=%y" -T "tracknumber=%n" -T "genre=%m" -T "comment=EAC (Secure Mode)" %s

Another site recommended not doing anything with this...I understand that part of this command line is the level of compression: 6.  But why is replaygain involved?

 

[slow_down]

I use EAC v.99 prebeta 3 from July 28 2007 and was able to easily configure FLAC and folder naming options through itsc configuration wizard.  The FLAC compressor downloads automatically with this version of EAC and the configuration wizard was a breeze to use.

Another great program is mediamonkey, which has some AWESOME batch renaming and organization tools, all in the free version of the program.  Say you have all your FLAC files in one big folder, but for some reason some are named properly and sitting in proper subfolders based on artist name and album, while others just aren't.  You can have mediamonkey organize and rename them however you want all at once, creating filenames and subfolders based on whatever metadata you choose.