SatoriGFX;304228 Wrote: > Ok, I have Plextools installed. What setting do you recommend for "DAE > Error Recovery"? Should I have Plextools do the FLAC compression or do > that externally? I've never seen a "DAE error recovery" option in Plextools. Perhaps you have a different version to me. (I used Plextools Pro. Do you have the XL version?)
For normal ripping, I set "audio error detection" ON and set the drive speed as high as it'll go. That way Plextools works pretty much like EAC secure mode, except that it rips much quicker than EAC. The real beauty of Plextools comes when you have a CD with uncorrectable errors. Switch "audio error detection" OFF. This is the equivalent of burst mode, but also turns on the drive's error concealment (ie. it interpolates the errors like an audio player). Also set the ripping speed to the lowest setting (4x). Then you'll get good rips from damaged discs. (Not perfect, of course, but the errors are usually interpolated without audible glitches). I never found a way to get EAC to produce click-free rips from discs with uncorrectable errors. As for letting Plextools do the FLAC encoding. In the version I have, Plextools doesn't pad the tag space. That means if you modify the tags, the entire file has to be re-written, which is a pain. Therefore I always ripped to WAV and then used Foobar2000 to encode to FLAC. (Finally, I will point out that I had to stop using Plextools when my PX712A died a while back. Had Plextor still been making their own drives I would have stuck with them. But because Plextor drives are now just OEM'd and lack all the useful stuff like the Q-check facilities, I now have a Samsung drive and use dbPowerAmp. The only "true" Plextor still around seems to be the Premium, which is a CD-only drive. I couldn't justify the cost when I was able to buy the Samsung DVDR DL drive for under 20 quid. But I do really miss my old Plextor drive when ripping). -- 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=47951 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
