Thanks for the feedback, Bryan.
I posted over at the forum at EAC as well, with no response. I've used Nero, Roxio, etc, but tried Eac, since everyone was so ga ga about the FLAC ripping, and better quality. But I have never had so many failures. I thought it was maybe a corrupted download, but no...and then I thought it may be the firmware to my new Samsung writer, but I upgraded that and no...
So I'm kind of in a quandary on using it anymore, as I can't foretell if it will do it or not. I've tried the "test methods" and they look fine, but when I try to burn, especially the opera folklorico of Argentina cd, bam! Toaster.
I'll fire off an email to Sheldon Stokes, who uses EAC, but he does the same thing you were saying, he rips it to a hard drive to access it through a Mac Air?(Transporter?) wireless to his system.
On another topic, a guy at diyaudio made a comparison to the Zhalou dac and the very expensive Remyo cd player.
I think Occam was and is using a mod version on this site
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=1463149#post1463149