Hello,
I've been a long-time fan of this forum and EAC, but I've never had the need to post here - until now. This is because I was always able to find the answers to my questions, but now I have a little issue I would need your help with. It's really basic actually and I'm sure that for all you experts on here it won't be any kind of problem.
I backup my CDs as single files - I use the action "Copy Image & Create CUE Sheet". Generally I'm pleased with my results - so far all the tracks I have ripped and that are present in the AccurateRip database came out as accurate.
I was thinking of writing a little utility for converting EACV1.3 logsinto CUE sheets and so I started examining some of the logs EAC generated for me. I was shocked to see that I haven't found any pre-gap information in them - at least I think it's not there.
Here is one such log along with the CUE sheet accompanying my rip.
Exact Audio Copy V1.3 from 2. September 2016
EAC extraction logfile from 5. September 2017, 13:52
Vintersorg / Till Fjälls del II
Used drive : ASUS SDRW-08D2S-U Adapter: 1 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : No
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 103
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 896 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files (x86)\Exact Audio Copy\FLAC\FLAC.EXE
Additional command line options : -8 -V -T "ARTIST=%artist%" -T "ALBUM=%albumtitle%" -T "DATE=%year%" -T "GENRE=%genre%" -T "COMMENT=%comment%" -T "DISCNUMBER=%cdnumber%" -T "TOTALDISCS=%totalcds%" %source% -o %dest%
TOC of the extracted CD
Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
---------------------------------------------------------
1 | 0:00.00 | 6:55.22 | 0 | 31146
2 | 6:55.22 | 4:16.18 | 31147 | 50364
3 | 11:11.40 | 6:58.72 | 50365 | 81786
4 | 18:10.37 | 7:20.48 | 81787 | 114834
5 | 25:31.10 | 5:25.74 | 114835 | 139283
6 | 30:57.09 | 6:33.58 | 139284 | 168816
7 | 37:30.67 | 4:58.65 | 168817 | 191231
8 | 42:29.57 | 5:46.39 | 191232 | 217220
9 | 48:16.21 | 3:25.36 | 217221 | 232631
Range status and errors
Selected range
Filename C:\Vintersorg - Till Fjalls del II (Digipak Edition) - CD 1.wav
Peak level 100.0 %
Extraction speed 3.1 X
Range quality 100.0 %
Copy CRC 7729BB59
Copy OK
No errors occurred
AccurateRip summary
Track 1 accurately ripped (confidence 1) [904C0DED] (AR v2)
Track 2 accurately ripped (confidence 1) [CD3A9B30] (AR v2)
Track 3 accurately ripped (confidence 1) [CFDAE941] (AR v2)
Track 4 accurately ripped (confidence 1) [1CE636FD] (AR v2)
Track 5 accurately ripped (confidence 1) [C78A8579] (AR v2)
Track 6 accurately ripped (confidence 1) [2BC266A4] (AR v2)
Track 7 accurately ripped (confidence 1) [F54631D6] (AR v2)
Track 8 accurately ripped (confidence 1) [97B9025B] (AR v2)
Track 9 accurately ripped (confidence 1) [DE9C39D2] (AR v2)
All tracks accurately ripped
End of status report
---- CUETools DB Plugin V2.1.6
[CTDB TOCID: YMjwGyf0etMAt9dzMFjslSuz5i8-] found
Submit result: YMjwGyf0etMAt9dzMFjslSuz5i8- has been confirmed
Track | CTDB Status
1 | (13/13) Accurately ripped
2 | (13/13) Accurately ripped
3 | (13/13) Accurately ripped
4 | (13/13) Accurately ripped
5 | (13/13) Accurately ripped
6 | (13/13) Accurately ripped
7 | (13/13) Accurately ripped
8 | (13/13) Accurately ripped
9 | (13/13) Accurately ripped
REM GENRE "Viking/Folk/Progressive Metal"
REM DATE 2017
REM DISCID 800C1D09
REM COMMENT "ExactAudioCopy v1.3"
PERFORMER "Vintersorg"
TITLE "Till Fjälls del II"
REM COMPOSER ""
FILE "Vintersorg - Till Fjalls del II (Digipak Edition) - CD 1.flac" WAVE
TRACK 01 AUDIO
TITLE "Jökelväktaren"
PERFORMER "Vintersorg"
REM COMPOSER ""
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 02 AUDIO
TITLE "En väldig isvidds karga dräkt"
PERFORMER "Vintersorg"
REM COMPOSER ""
INDEX 00 06:55:21
INDEX 01 06:55:22
INDEX 02 09:05:27
TRACK 03 AUDIO
TITLE "Lavin"
PERFORMER "Vintersorg"
REM COMPOSER ""
INDEX 00 11:11:39
INDEX 01 11:11:40
TRACK 04 AUDIO
TITLE "Fjällets mäktiga mur"
PERFORMER "Vintersorg"
REM COMPOSER ""
INDEX 00 18:10:36
INDEX 01 18:10:37
INDEX 02 25:29:09
TRACK 05 AUDIO
TITLE "Obygdens pionjär"
PERFORMER "Vintersorg"
REM COMPOSER ""
INDEX 00 25:31:09
INDEX 01 25:31:10
TRACK 06 AUDIO
TITLE "Vinterstorm"
PERFORMER "Vintersorg"
REM COMPOSER ""
INDEX 00 30:57:08
INDEX 01 30:57:09
TRACK 07 AUDIO
TITLE "Tusenåriga stråk"
PERFORMER "Vintersorg"
REM COMPOSER ""
INDEX 00 37:30:66
INDEX 01 37:30:67
TRACK 08 AUDIO
TITLE "Allt mellan himmel och jord"
PERFORMER "Vintersorg"
REM COMPOSER ""
INDEX 00 42:29:56
INDEX 01 42:29:57
TRACK 09 AUDIO
TITLE "Vårflod"
PERFORMER "Vintersorg"
REM COMPOSER ""
INDEX 00 48:16:20
INDEX 01 48:16:21
I haven't done it for all of my CDs, but in this particular case I'm sure that I even pressed F4 to detect the gaps manually prior to extraction. I thought I understood how EAC's gap detection works, but this issue with my logs got me thinking. Is it correct that one doesn't have to detect gaps manually before extracting single file images inorder to get an exact CD copy?
I'm sure I haven't instructed EAC to explicitly detect the gaps in case of many of the albums found in my collection and yet many of the CUE sheets contain pre-gap info. This seemed quite natural to me as EAC automatically detects gaps prior to every extraction as long as the gaps aren't detected first using the manual "F4" method (or so I think). For this reason pressing F4 every time seemed quite redundant to me.
Am I missing something? If my CUE sheets contain pre-gaps, why aren't these showing up in the log?
Many thanks and have a great day! :-)