From your last post, did you get EAC working or did you use Winamp?
In case you get the same trouble I have with Winamp.... It crashes to an error message I can't exactly recall when I try to rip.
Here is a brief quick start on getting EAC set up. It is a There also seems to be a kind of "use it if you want to play with the big boys" attitude out there on the forums, but that's just peer pressure for geeks.
If you decide it's for you.
-- First you need to download and install the FLAC encoder program. (EAC is kind of a shell program. It acts as a GUI to various other encoder programs and passes on any parameters that would otherwise be complicated command line extras.)
FLAC Program Download Sight Take note of what folder it installs into.
-- Open the EAC Program.
--check or change where your ripped files will end up.
-----From the main menu, choose [EAC]
-----From the EAC menu, choose [EAC Options]
-----On the popup window, choose the [Directories] tab.
-----Click to select the [Use this Directory] option.
-----Use the [Browse] button to view your folders and select one to store your files.
-----Click on the [OK] button when done.
-- Configure it to use the FLAC encoder
------From the main menu, choose [EAC]
------From the EAC menu, choose [Compression Options]
------On the resulting window, Choose the tab called [External Compression]
------Modify the entries in this screen as per the picture below. The only difference might be the path to the EAC program. Looks like I choose to make a folder under my EAC folder whereas yours was probably different.
-----Click the [OK] button.
((There are hundreds of options that you can play with in many menus to change the way it rips, creates file names, etc. This will get you started.))
-- Turn on the FreeDB service so it gets your album information and track names for you.
-----Click on [EAC] in the main menu.
-----Click on [FreeDB / Database Options]
-----Enter in a valid email it will use for validation. (they sent me no spam so far).
-----Click the button called [Get active FreeDB Server List]
-----Choose a server in the [FreeDB server] dropdown list.
-----Click the [OK] button.
Start Ripping CDs
-- Load a CD into the built in coffee holder.
-- Wait a few seconds for FreeDB service to fill in your track names and such. (Internet connection is required, of course.)
-- From the Main Menu click on [Actions]
-- From the Actions menu, choose [Copy Selected Tracks]
-- From the pop up menu, choose [Compressed]
Note:Compressed FLAC files are still lossless in this case. The amount of compression used simply determines how long it takes to encode it. Files sizes are much bigger than MP3s but much smaller than original .wav files.
-- Select songs for your mixed demo CD to send to fellow Axiomites.
Seem complicated? Winamp is definately simpler but EAC will give you more options and is very reliable. Some people also claim that using the true FLAC encoder in this way gives better results than others like Winamp but if they are both supposed to be creating lossless digital files, should there really be a difference???
I'm betting this scared you off but if not, I hope it helped.
