Does anyone know if EAC and Foobar can be run on the command line? I.e. run from a DOS command?
There are a lot of programs that do. I am not a complete computer geek but I know how to write simple dos batch programs and was thinking of making a quick easy way to rip and compress CDs onto the PC.
Here's the idea...
Let's say you are putting a lot of CD's onto your computer and want to store them in FLAC or other compressed format. This can be very time consuming! However there is bound to be an easier way. I mean most of the time is sitting waiting for the next prompt just to enter the same thing you did a hundred times before. This is where DOS batch programs work great.
With a DOS batch you typically write a bunch of command lines in a text editor and save it as a batch file. The command lines tells DOS what programs to run and what options to pass to the program. You then can run more than one program in this batch as well and do a number of windows utilities here is an idea of what we'd want to do in this case.
let's assume our CDrom is drive D: and our music all gets put on a dedicated drive or partition, let's call it M:. I like to make a few utility directories to make this process real clean, let's make \rip\, \unsorted flac\, \unsorted mp3\.
Then my batch would do the following..
step 1: rip .wav's from the D: drive using EAC with predefined settings and place into \rip\.
step 2: take all .wav's in \rip\ and compress to FLAC and predined settings using Foobar, .flac files go in \unsorted flac\
step 2.5: del m:\rip\*.wav --clean up
step 3: take all .flac files in \unsorted flac\ and compress to mp3 (predef settings) for portable player and place in \unsorted mp3\
Now when the batch file is written you can place a shortcut on your desktop to run the batch file using the DOS prompt. So when you want to rip a CD all you do is plop in the tray, close the door and hit the batch job. When it is done you take the CD out, put another in and repeat. You can even write a little code at the end to make a sound or open the CD rom tray when done so you'll know when to change CDs. This is a lot less headache and what I intend to look into when I rip the rest of my collection ot drives.
