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To those who use EAC....

Spooner

Lifer
Jan 16, 2000
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Why can't I get the damn thing to rip to MP3?

I click the Compress to MP3 button and it rips it to freakin WAV! What am I missing here?
 

Spooner

Lifer
Jan 16, 2000
12,025
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Originally posted by: HappyCracker
did you configure the lame encoder?
it worked fine when I used MusicMatch. Do I have to configure anything special within EAC?
 

BDawg

Lifer
Oct 31, 2000
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Originally posted by: Spooner
Originally posted by: HappyCracker
did you configure the lame encoder?
it worked fine when I used MusicMatch. Do I have to configure anything special within EAC?

Yes, you need to d/l the LAME executable and point EAC to that.
 

Fausto

Elite Member
Nov 29, 2000
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Originally posted by: Spooner
Originally posted by: HappyCracker
did you configure the lame encoder?
it worked fine when I used MusicMatch. Do I have to configure anything special within EAC?
Nope. You just have to rip first to .wav (which you've apparently figured out) and then go back and direct the program to the .wav files you'd like to compress. I don't have it in front of me right now so I can't recall the command, but it's in the dropdown menus.

I usually rip a dozen CDs or so and then select all the resulting .wav files and let it do the encode thing overnight since it's much more time consuming than the rip.

 

Spooner

Lifer
Jan 16, 2000
12,025
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I had the compressor set to some weird thing.

I just had to change it to LAME. I'm a moron.

Thanks guys!
 

BDawg

Lifer
Oct 31, 2000
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Originally posted by: Spooner
I had the compressor set to some weird thing.

I just had to change it to LAME. I'm a moron.

Thanks guys!


That's okay, we all know you're a moron. ;)
 

Viper GTS

Lifer
Oct 13, 1999
38,107
433
136
Originally posted by: Fausto1
Originally posted by: Spooner
Originally posted by: HappyCracker
did you configure the lame encoder?
it worked fine when I used MusicMatch. Do I have to configure anything special within EAC?
Nope. You just have to rip first to .wav (which you've apparently figured out) and then go back and direct the program to the .wav files you'd like to compress. I don't have it in front of me right now so I can't recall the command, but it's in the dropdown menus.

I usually rip a dozen CDs or so and then select all the resulting .wav files and let it do the encode thing overnight since it's much more time consuming than the rip.

You can actually set EAC to encode automatically using LAME. Best part is it does ID3 tags for you that way.

:)

Viper GTS
 

Fausto

Elite Member
Nov 29, 2000
26,521
2
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Originally posted by: Viper GTS
Originally posted by: Fausto1
Originally posted by: Spooner
Originally posted by: HappyCracker
did you configure the lame encoder?
it worked fine when I used MusicMatch. Do I have to configure anything special within EAC?
Nope. You just have to rip first to .wav (which you've apparently figured out) and then go back and direct the program to the .wav files you'd like to compress. I don't have it in front of me right now so I can't recall the command, but it's in the dropdown menus.

I usually rip a dozen CDs or so and then select all the resulting .wav files and let it do the encode thing overnight since it's much more time consuming than the rip.

You can actually set EAC to encode automatically using LAME. Best part is it does ID3 tags for you that way.

:)

Viper GTS
But you can only do one disc at a time? Or no?

 

Aves

Lifer
Feb 7, 2001
12,232
30
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Originally posted by: Fausto1
But you can only do one disc at a time? Or no?

Yep that's why I don't like doing it that way.

I just rip a bunch of CDs to wav and then use RazorLame to do the encoding later. Tag & Rename makes it very easy to do the tags since it pulls them from the same freedb servers that EAC uses.
 

Viper GTS

Lifer
Oct 13, 1999
38,107
433
136
Originally posted by: Fausto1
Originally posted by: Viper GTS
Originally posted by: Fausto1
Originally posted by: Spooner
Originally posted by: HappyCracker
did you configure the lame encoder?
it worked fine when I used MusicMatch. Do I have to configure anything special within EAC?
Nope. You just have to rip first to .wav (which you've apparently figured out) and then go back and direct the program to the .wav files you'd like to compress. I don't have it in front of me right now so I can't recall the command, but it's in the dropdown menus.

I usually rip a dozen CDs or so and then select all the resulting .wav files and let it do the encode thing overnight since it's much more time consuming than the rip.

You can actually set EAC to encode automatically using LAME. Best part is it does ID3 tags for you that way.

:)

Viper GTS
But you can only do one disc at a time? Or no?

EAC sets up a queue, I've had dozens of discs queued up to encode. It saves them all to WAV's first (much faster to rip than to encode), & deletes the WAV's when the encoding is done.

Viper GTS
 

Sid59

Lifer
Sep 2, 2002
11,879
3
81
Originally posted by: Viper GTS
Originally posted by: Fausto1
Originally posted by: Viper GTS
Originally posted by: Fausto1
Originally posted by: Spooner
Originally posted by: HappyCracker
did you configure the lame encoder?
it worked fine when I used MusicMatch. Do I have to configure anything special within EAC?
Nope. You just have to rip first to .wav (which you've apparently figured out) and then go back and direct the program to the .wav files you'd like to compress. I don't have it in front of me right now so I can't recall the command, but it's in the dropdown menus.

I usually rip a dozen CDs or so and then select all the resulting .wav files and let it do the encode thing overnight since it's much more time consuming than the rip.

You can actually set EAC to encode automatically using LAME. Best part is it does ID3 tags for you that way.

:)

Viper GTS
But you can only do one disc at a time? Or no?

EAC sets up a queue, I've had dozens of discs queued up to encode. It saves them all to WAV's first (much faster to rip than to encode), & deletes the WAV's when the encoding is done.

Viper GTS


yeah .. me too.

I queued 5 cds to rip. it works great.
 

Sid59

Lifer
Sep 2, 2002
11,879
3
81
Originally posted by: Howard
When I use EAC the files I get are empty. They play, but there's no audio at all.

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