Any of you use Exact Audio Copy?

[glen]

I just got the a book on audio CD.
It is 13 disks.
I want to make one CD with the whole thing in mp3 format so I can put one CD in my car's mp3 player and have the whole book.

 

[Sundog]

Originally posted by: glen
so I can put one CD in my car's mp3 player and have the whole book.

That would be nice! Which book?

 

[Viper GTS]

EAC is great, but you will need an external compressor as well (lame would be ideal).

Viper GTS

 

[glen]

Silmarillion.
I can't read it, but I want to hear it.
Hopefully someoen here can tell me how to do this.
Do I copy the CD to the HD, then convert to mp3?
Convert on fly?
Can I use mp3pro in 32 mono and have it play in my car mp3 player?

 

[KokomoGST]

AT endorses EAC as our ripper of choice... well, at least as much as putting in the site FAQs.

Here and some info on our choice of encoder (LAME) here

 

[glen]

Originally posted by: KokomoGST
AT endorses EAC as our ripper of choice... well, at least as much as putting in the site FAQs.

Here and some info on our choice of encoder (LAME) here

Oh yeah, I know to use EAC and LAME.
But, they way I have it set up, it is ripping very slowly, like real time or slower.
Again, rip then encode or encode on the fly?

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS
EAC is great, but you will need an external compressor as well (lame would be ideal).

Viper GTS

The newer(est?) version of EAC has LAME integrated into it. Very handy; I just rip a whole mess of CDs and do the batch compression overnight since it takes a while.

 

[Beau]

Originally posted by: Fausto1

Originally posted by: Viper GTS
EAC is great, but you will need an external compressor as well (lame would be ideal).

Viper GTS

The newer(est?) version of EAC has LAME integrated into it. Very handy; I just rip a whole mess of CDs and do the batch compression overnight since it takes a while.

Does it keep the ID3 info if you do that?

 

[Yossarian]

Originally posted by: glen
Silmarillion.
I can't read it, but I want to hear it.

Danger! Do not drive or operate heavy machinery while listening to the Silmarillion. It will put you to sleep.

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: Beau

Originally posted by: Fausto1

Originally posted by: Viper GTS
EAC is great, but you will need an external compressor as well (lame would be ideal).

Viper GTS

The newer(est?) version of EAC has LAME integrated into it. Very handy; I just rip a whole mess of CDs and do the batch compression overnight since it takes a while.

Does it keep the ID3 info if you do that?

Yep. Insert CD. Retrieve ID3 stuffs (output is configurable to track/artist/song or artist/album/track/number or whatever you like). Rip CDs. Select stuff to encode. Sleep.

 

[glen]

I think I want to rip all 13 CDs to a folder on my HD, then set those files up to encode the whole batch, right?

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: glen
I think I want to rip all 13 CDs to a folder on my HD, then set those files up to encode the whole batch, right?

Yep. I just made a folder on my MP3 drive named "WAV" and rip everything to there. Then direct LAME to that folder. Best to do it overnight since it is a bit fussy about you doing other things on the puter while it's encoding tho.

 

[glen]

Originally posted by: Fausto1

Originally posted by: glen
I think I want to rip all 13 CDs to a folder on my HD, then set those files up to encode the whole batch, right?

Yep. I just made a folder on my MP3 drive named "WAV" and rip everything to there. Then direct LAME to that folder. Best to do it overnight since it is a bit fussy about you doing other things on the puter while it's encoding tho.

Right, and I know this must sound stupid, but in EAC, what settings and where do I click to make it copy the CD to my folder?

 

[Confused]

Under the EAC Options, check the box that says "On extraction, start external compressors queued in the background" and tell it to do 1 (or more if you have a multi-CPU machine )

This will rip to HDD as WAV, then convert to MP3 one by one...but in the background, and overnight if needbe.

Confused

 

[glen]

Originally posted by: Confused
Under the EAC Options, check the box that says "On extraction, start external compressors queued in the background" and tell it to do 1 (or more if you have a multi-CPU machine )

This will rip to HDD as WAV, then convert to MP3 one by one...but in the background, and overnight if needbe.

Confused

OK, I am doing that now and it is taking about half of real time to do this.
Can't I make this thing rip at my HD read speed or close?

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: glen

Originally posted by: Confused
Under the EAC Options, check the box that says "On extraction, start external compressors queued in the background" and tell it to do 1 (or more if you have a multi-CPU machine )

This will rip to HDD as WAV, then convert to MP3 one by one...but in the background, and overnight if needbe.

Confused

OK, I am doing that now and it is taking about half of real time to do this.
Can't I make this thing rip at my HD read speed or close?

That's why I rip first and then queue up the encoding later. Takes about 2 min per CD to rip so I'll just rip 10 or so and then get the encoding going.

 

[nord1899]

The way I do this is the following.

Use EAC to rip straight to WAV without doing any encoding to MP3. Use the CDDB function to grab the CD info. Make the filename something useful for later purposes. I have two formats, one for normal CD's and the other for soundtracks.
Normal: \Artist\Album\TrackNum-TrackTitle
Soundtracks: \Various Artists\Album\TrackNum-TrackTitle

Then I use Razor Lame along with LAME to batch encode. Here you just point Razor Lame to the files and let it go overnight.

Then I use Tag and Rename to generate the ID3 tags from the filenames (thats why I use that format). T&R can parse the filename to generate the ID3 tag. This is necessary because going EAC to Razor Lame does not preserve any ID3 tags.

This works great for doing large groups of mp3's, but is not so great for ripping one CD or so.

 

[Jeomite]

Originally posted by: glen

Originally posted by: KokomoGST
AT endorses EAC as our ripper of choice... well, at least as much as putting in the site FAQs.

Here and some info on our choice of encoder (LAME) here

Oh yeah, I know to use EAC and LAME.
But, they way I have it set up, it is ripping very slowly, like real time or slower.
Again, rip then encode or encode on the fly?

The reason why it's ripping slowly is probably because you are using Secure Mode Extraction, which I highly recommend.
If you change it to Burst Transfer Extraction, it will go faster, but it might result in pops/skips.

 

[Sid59]

Originally posted by: nord1899
The way I do this is the following.

Use EAC to rip straight to WAV without doing any encoding to MP3. Use the CDDB function to grab the CD info. Make the filename something useful for later purposes. I have two formats, one for normal CD's and the other for soundtracks.
Normal: \Artist\Album\TrackNum-TrackTitle
Soundtracks: \Various Artists\Album\TrackNum-TrackTitle

Then I use Razor Lame along with LAME to batch encode. Here you just point Razor Lame to the files and let it go overnight.

Then I use Tag and Rename to generate the ID3 tags from the filenames (thats why I use that format). T&R can parse the filename to generate the ID3 tag. This is necessary because going EAC to Razor Lame does not preserve any ID3 tags.

This works great for doing large groups of mp3's, but is not so great for ripping one CD or so.

Or you can skip the entire Tag and Rename step and let EAC id tag for you.

I set EAC to RIP and then encode the wav right after.
After the 1st RIP, it encodes it, then starts to rip WAV 2.

In that fashion, it will tag the mp3s (im extremely lazy)

If you are like me (lazy and don't like having lame eat 100% of resources at the time of encoding) you can rip the entire disc and close it down.

When you restart EAC, it starts to encode again and remembers all the id tags.

 

[Triumph]

No one mentioned ASPI drivers. When I installed the proper ATAPI drivers, my ripping speeds nearly tripled. I've also noticed that manually encoding a .wav through commands on the DOS prompt is about 2-3 times faster than having EAC do it. Not sure why that would be, but it's too arduous to input command lines so I just let EAC do it, since I'm in no rush.

So for the ASPI drivers, look under "EAC Options - Interface." Don't use Native Win32 interface, use Installed External ASPI Interface. And damned if I can't remember where to download the ASPI drivers.

 

[nord1899]

Originally posted by: Sid59

Originally posted by: nord1899
The way I do this is the following.

Use EAC to rip straight to WAV without doing any encoding to MP3. Use the CDDB function to grab the CD info. Make the filename something useful for later purposes. I have two formats, one for normal CD's and the other for soundtracks.
Normal: \Artist\Album\TrackNum-TrackTitle
Soundtracks: \Various Artists\Album\TrackNum-TrackTitle

Then I use Razor Lame along with LAME to batch encode. Here you just point Razor Lame to the files and let it go overnight.

Then I use Tag and Rename to generate the ID3 tags from the filenames (thats why I use that format). T&R can parse the filename to generate the ID3 tag. This is necessary because going EAC to Razor Lame does not preserve any ID3 tags.

This works great for doing large groups of mp3's, but is not so great for ripping one CD or so.

Or you can skip the entire Tag and Rename step and let EAC id tag for you.

I set EAC to RIP and then encode the wav right after.
After the 1st RIP, it encodes it, then starts to rip WAV 2.

In that fashion, it will tag the mp3s (im extremely lazy)

If you are like me (lazy and don't like having lame eat 100% of resources at the time of encoding) you can rip the entire disc and close it down.

When you restart EAC, it starts to encode again and remembers all the id tags.

My method does the following:
1. Insert CD
2. Rip with EAC to WAV
3. Swap CD's
4. Repeat 2 and 3 until all CD's ripped
5. Load WAV into Razor Lame
6. Start Razor Lame
7. Go to sleep, wake up next morning, all encoded

I prefer that method over:
1. Insert CD
2. Rip with EAC to WAV to encode to MP3
3. Swap CD's
4. Repeat until all CD's ripped

Because my CD-ROM can rip much faster than my computer can encode, so why do both at once? Also, I need to be at the machine while ripping to swap CD't but I don't need to be there to encode if done batch style.

But hey, whatever works for you.

 

[Sid59]

Originally posted by: nord1899

Originally posted by: Sid59

Originally posted by: nord1899
The way I do this is the following.

Use EAC to rip straight to WAV without doing any encoding to MP3. Use the CDDB function to grab the CD info. Make the filename something useful for later purposes. I have two formats, one for normal CD's and the other for soundtracks.
Normal: \Artist\Album\TrackNum-TrackTitle
Soundtracks: \Various Artists\Album\TrackNum-TrackTitle

Then I use Razor Lame along with LAME to batch encode. Here you just point Razor Lame to the files and let it go overnight.

Then I use Tag and Rename to generate the ID3 tags from the filenames (thats why I use that format). T&R can parse the filename to generate the ID3 tag. This is necessary because going EAC to Razor Lame does not preserve any ID3 tags.

This works great for doing large groups of mp3's, but is not so great for ripping one CD or so.

Or you can skip the entire Tag and Rename step and let EAC id tag for you.

I set EAC to RIP and then encode the wav right after.
After the 1st RIP, it encodes it, then starts to rip WAV 2.

In that fashion, it will tag the mp3s (im extremely lazy)

If you are like me (lazy and don't like having lame eat 100% of resources at the time of encoding) you can rip the entire disc and close it down.

When you restart EAC, it starts to encode again and remembers all the id tags.

My method does the following:
1. Insert CD
2. Rip with EAC to WAV
3. Swap CD's
4. Repeat 2 and 3 until all CD's ripped
5. Load WAV into Razor Lame
6. Start Razor Lame
7. Go to sleep, wake up next morning, all encoded

I prefer that method over:
1. Insert CD
2. Rip with EAC to WAV to encode to MP3
3. Swap CD's
4. Repeat until all CD's ripped

Because my CD-ROM can rip much faster than my computer can encode, so why do both at once? Also, I need to be at the machine while ripping to swap CD't but I don't need to be there to encode if done batch style.

But hey, whatever works for you.

1. Insert CD
2. RIP CD TO WAV (encode wavs as it rips them. if the wav isn't done encoding, it puts the wav in queue.)
3. swap cds (if need be)
4. Close EAC and save the queue for when i go to sleep.
--that's where i end, and the ID tags are written for me.
5. open a tager and tag your mp3s
--now your done.

But hey, if you want to do an extra step, whatever works for you =D

 

[nord1899]

Originally posted by: Sid59

Originally posted by: nord1899

Originally posted by: Sid59

Originally posted by: nord1899
The way I do this is the following.

Use EAC to rip straight to WAV without doing any encoding to MP3. Use the CDDB function to grab the CD info. Make the filename something useful for later purposes. I have two formats, one for normal CD's and the other for soundtracks.
Normal: \Artist\Album\TrackNum-TrackTitle
Soundtracks: \Various Artists\Album\TrackNum-TrackTitle

Then I use Razor Lame along with LAME to batch encode. Here you just point Razor Lame to the files and let it go overnight.

Then I use Tag and Rename to generate the ID3 tags from the filenames (thats why I use that format). T&R can parse the filename to generate the ID3 tag. This is necessary because going EAC to Razor Lame does not preserve any ID3 tags.

This works great for doing large groups of mp3's, but is not so great for ripping one CD or so.

Or you can skip the entire Tag and Rename step and let EAC id tag for you.

I set EAC to RIP and then encode the wav right after.
After the 1st RIP, it encodes it, then starts to rip WAV 2.

In that fashion, it will tag the mp3s (im extremely lazy)

If you are like me (lazy and don't like having lame eat 100% of resources at the time of encoding) you can rip the entire disc and close it down.

When you restart EAC, it starts to encode again and remembers all the id tags.

My method does the following:
1. Insert CD
2. Rip with EAC to WAV
3. Swap CD's
4. Repeat 2 and 3 until all CD's ripped
5. Load WAV into Razor Lame
6. Start Razor Lame
7. Go to sleep, wake up next morning, all encoded

I prefer that method over:
1. Insert CD
2. Rip with EAC to WAV to encode to MP3
3. Swap CD's
4. Repeat until all CD's ripped

Because my CD-ROM can rip much faster than my computer can encode, so why do both at once? Also, I need to be at the machine while ripping to swap CD't but I don't need to be there to encode if done batch style.

But hey, whatever works for you.

1. Insert CD
2. RIP CD TO WAV (encode wavs as it rips them. if the wav isn't done encoding, it puts the wav in queue.)
3. swap cds (if need be)
4. Close EAC and save the queue for when i go to sleep.
--that's where i end, and the ID tags are written for me.
5. open a tager and tag your mp3s
--now your done.

But hey, if you want to do an extra step, whatever works for you =D

I must be using an older version of EAC that doesn't do that. When I did all my ripping (Fall 2001) EAC couldn't do the queueing part.

 

[Sid59]

Check the settings, it should be there.

EAC OPTIONS
TOOLS TAB

 

[glen]

Originally posted by: Triumph
No one mentioned ASPI drivers. When I installed the proper ATAPI drivers, my ripping speeds nearly tripled. I've also noticed that manually encoding a .wav through commands on the DOS prompt is about 2-3 times faster than having EAC do it. Not sure why that would be, but it's too arduous to input command lines so I just let EAC do it, since I'm in no rush.

So for the ASPI drivers, look under "EAC Options - Interface." Don't use Native Win32 interface, use Installed External ASPI Interface. And damned if I can't remember where to download the ASPI drivers.

I did this and changed the settings to speed.
Thank you.
BTW, how can I check to see if I have any errors in the ripping?