Hi all With the exception of Dane, does anybody else on list who might happen to be reasonably expected to be around during the European/US daytime, happen to use, or have some experience in the use of, Exact Audio Copy for Windows? I mean no offence towards Dane, I'm simply trying to be fair because unless he's a night owl, he won't be around.
Anyway, I am trying to remember how I used to have this thing configured to produce the albums in the formats I want them. I also want to try and do some comparisons between Exact Audio Copy and XLD for Mac. Both have their distinct advantages and, probably, disadvantages too. But I am trying to figure out / remember what I used to change to get this working the way I want it. I'm looking to have albums formatted as single compressed FLAC files with cue sheets. I think that's probably going to be the most efficient way I can store lossless albums again . Also, we already have a large collection of material stored in this way so it would be the most consistent method. XLD for Mac is a very excellent piece of software in most respects. Where it falls down very badly in my opinion is its inability to batch edit multiple tracks metadata. This is something which you can accomplish with Exact Audio Copy for Windows and, assuming that there are no other issues which would slow down Exact Audio Copy, it would probably be the most efficient method I have currently of producing the kind of content I want. Unfortunately, or fortunately, (depending upon your point of view), I am really fussy regarding accuracy of all metadata fields. It's taking an age, in view of that fact, using XLD to produce my albums. Now, I have considered just ripping the albums as they are and then manually editing the cue sheets with a text editor. That is indeed a possibility. However, I would prefer not to do this because it means that editing would have to be done all over again later when ripping the same albums into a different format. So, I am leaning towards using Exact Audio copy in order to make this processing task more efficient, quicker and less tedious. Does anybody have any recommendations regarding what I should look at changing from the Exact Audio Copy defaults? If Dane happens to be around and if he is able/willing to answer those questions that'd be great. but I need to get this job done fast, as I'm already going to have to repeat the process to accommodate OTS AV DJ Pro Classic which uses its own proprietary format by default, and that's how you get the best results. Gordon <--- Gordon Smith ---> This message was written using 100 Percent recycled electrons. [email protected] Follow us on Twitter: @maciosaccess <---> ======================================= The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html Or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> ---------------------------------------
