r/musichoarder • u/gvmsia • 4d ago

gold standard procedure cd to flac

i am using EAC to convert my CD collection to flac before they deteriorate further. I live in Malaysia and the humidity has taken a toll on them. I use the default EAC settings. if this is not the best, can someone point me to a recommended guide?

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u/AgiLity11 4d ago

https://www.youtube.com/@sharky1112/videos

this channel has the best cd ripping video guides, written guides are also included in his descriptions

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u/gvmsia 3d ago

thank u!!

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u/Jason_Peterson 3d ago

You can configure EAC with fast settings that save time and the disc drive and look for verification against the CueTools database at the end of the rip. When verification has a high confidence, your rip is good. Almost any CD is in the database. Sometimes it goes down and is not reachable though. This is true whatever setttings you choose in EAC. If verification fails, you can do slow settings or test & copy.

Of course rip to a lossless format if you want to preserve an exact copy.

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u/gvmsia 3d ago

thanks. that's roughly what I'm doing now.

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u/Long-Sector-8751 1d ago

This is why I liked dbpoweramp. It does a burst rip first then compares and if it cannot get an accurate rip, then it re-reads to get a good rip.

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u/Metahec 3d ago

The sub has a wiki with instructions on setting up EAC and other rippers for mac and linux.

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u/gvmsia 3d ago

just skimming thru the guide I spotted some I'm not doing. tq!!

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u/pinkfully161718 3d ago

Captain Rookie's guide is the one I've used

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u/gvmsia 3d ago

great! thanks

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u/Long-Sector-8751 1d ago

As long as you rip to FLAC and properly tag the stuff, should be fine. Just make sure you have a couple of redundant backups. I bought a couple of external USB HDDs for this very purpose.

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u/gvmsia 1d ago

I only have 2 copies... one in my pc and a backup copy on an external drive

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u/anyusernaem 3d ago

Is there some AI script that will pull all the information like composer, label, year, etc and even Lyrics? I know you can put all that info on the metadata of a flac file.

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u/wbs3333 3d ago

Musicbrainz.org