igroucho;225222 Wrote: > I have ripped my whole cd-collection using a laptop-pc with an Plextor > drive attached (avoiding using the internal drive as choice of drive is > important!) to a USB->IDE device, EAC and compressing to FLAC. Since you have a Plextor drive, have you tried using Plextools? I find that it performs better than EAC with my Plextor drive (PX712A). Not only does it rip faster than EAC's secure mode, it also seems to have knowledge about some extra capabilities in the drive that are unknown to EAC.
Specifically, if you have a CD which (no matter how many re-reads you try) has uncorrectable errors, Plextools allows you to switch off error detection at the ripping stage, which turns the drive's error concealment back on. The Plextor's concealment works pretty well provided you turn the rip speed down. I've never found a way to use this facility with EAC. There are two downsides to Plextools: 1. If you encode to FLAC as you rip, it doesn't include any padding space in the header, which means if you edit the tags later the entire file has to be rewritten. I therefore rip to WAV then transcode to FLAC with Foobar2000. 2. Its user interface for correcting inaccurate tags retrieved from FreeDB is much worse than EAC's. I leave all tagging corrections to later and use Foobar2000 to fix them. -- cliveb Transporter -> ATC SCM100A ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38164 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
