Just one point that probably only affects classical music: the length of the path+filename.
Many years ago when I started ripping my CDs to flac I used EAC (which I still use) and ripped them to an external HDD (in fact a WD MyBook). After some time I began to get strange problems when I tried to play certain tracks (they didn't play) and even odder problems when I tried to backup the files to another HDD (some files didn't copy over, etc). After some head scratching I worked out that the problem was that EAC+flac had written files where the length of the path+filename exceeded the Windows XP limit of 260 characters!!! (This is the limit for the full path, including the drive (e.g. "D:\") and including an invisible <NUL> character at the end.) With some classical music it is surprisingly easy to approach and exceed the path+filename limit, e.g. the default tracknames of some Bach Cantatas, some opera tracks, etc, etc can be very long. All it needs then is a few levels of sub-folder nesting, with longish folder names, to push the total over the limit. The ripping software *should* prevent this happening but whether it does is open to question. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnB's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=31553 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94014 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
