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EAC: File Creation Error on first CD track

In EAC, I am getting  "File Creation Error!" on the first track of every CD I try to extract from, compressed or uncompressed. All other tracks extract w/o issues. Also, I can Test the first track in EAC, w/o issues.

I don't recall having this error before in EAC. I can extract first CD tracks from other software, such as Foobar2000.

Any ideas what may be causing this?

EAC: File Creation Error on first CD track

Reply #1 –
What is your command line, especially the part that defines the target file name?

EAC: File Creation Error on first CD track

Reply #2 –
Please include a rip log detailing the encoder and command line options as well as the destination path and names for your files.

It's a lot better to tell us this first rather than forcing us to guess.  I normally ignore posts that are overly-vague.

General Audio is not the right forum for this post.  I will be moving it to the correct forum.  Please read the Terms Of Service, particularly number 6 if you have any questions.

EAC: File Creation Error on first CD track

Reply #3 –
EAC log also (strangely) notes that Track 2 "aborted", but it was ripped -- dunno why log is wrong??

Code: [Select]
Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 4 from 23. January 2008

EAC extraction logfile from 6. September 2008, 12:48

Vladimir Horowitz / Horowitz Plays Prokofiev, Barber, Kabalevsky: 

Sonatas

Used drive  : BENQ	DVD LS DW1655   Adapter: 0  ID: 0

Read mode			   : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache	  : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No

Read offset correction					  : 618
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	   : No
Used interface							  : Installed external 

ASPI interface
Gap handling								: Not detected, thus 

appended to previous track

Used output format : Internal WAV Routines
Sample format	  : 44.100 Hz; 16 Bit; Stereo


TOC of the extracted CD

	 Track |   Start  |  Length  | Start sector | End sector 
	---------------------------------------------------------
		1  |  0:00.00 |  8:17.15 |		 0	|	37289   
		2  |  8:17.15 |  5:25.10 |	 37290	|	61674   
		3  | 13:42.25 |  3:53.13 |	 61675	|	79162   
		4  | 17:35.38 |  6:24.72 |	 79163	|   108034   
		5  | 24:00.35 |  1:55.00 |	108035	|   116659   
		6  | 25:55.35 |  5:40.18 |	116660	|   142177   
		7  | 31:35.53 |  4:42.62 |	142178	|   163389   
		8  | 36:18.40 |  5:43.25 |	163390	|   189139   
		9  | 42:01.65 |  4:45.18 |	189140	|   210532   
	   10  | 46:47.08 |  4:57.42 |	210533	|   232849   
	   11  | 51:44.50 |  4:07.18 |	232850	|   251392   
	   12  | 55:51.68 |  7:32.20 |	251393	|   285312   
	   13  | 63:24.13 |  1:20.67 |	285313	|   291379   


Track  1

	 Filename C:\Documents and Settings\hollowman\My Documents\My 

Music\EAC\Vladimir Horowitz\Horowitz Plays Prokofiev, Barber, 

Kabalevsky- Sonatas\01\Prokofiev - Piano Sonata No. 7 Op. 83 'War 

Sonata No. 2 - Stalingrad' - I - Allegro inquieto - Andant

	 Copy aborted

Track  2

	 Copy aborted

Track  3

	 Filename C:\Documents and Settings\hollowman\My Documents\My 

Music\EAC\Vladimir Horowitz\Horowitz Plays Prokofiev, Barber, 

Kabalevsky- Sonatas\03\Prokofiev - Piano Sonata No. 7 Op. 83 'War 

Sonata No. 2 - Stalingrad' - III - Precipitato (Horowitz).

	 Peak level 59.3 %
	 Track quality 100.0 %
	 Copy CRC 29E71EBF
	 Cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 2)  [4019B0ED], 

AccurateRip returned [E1457865]
	 Copy OK

Track  4

	 Filename C:\Documents and Settings\hollowman\My Documents\My 

Music\EAC\Vladimir Horowitz\Horowitz Plays Prokofiev, Barber, 

Kabalevsky- Sonatas\04\Barber - Piano Sonata Op. 26 - I - Allegro 

energico (Horowitz).wav

	 Peak level 55.1 %
	 Track quality 100.0 %
	 Copy CRC 5B298D01
	 Cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 2)  [3D52A8A0], 

AccurateRip returned [31C62B89]
	 Copy OK

Track  5

	 Filename C:\Documents and Settings\hollowman\My Documents\My 

Music\EAC\Vladimir Horowitz\Horowitz Plays Prokofiev, Barber, 

Kabalevsky- Sonatas\05\Barber - Piano Sonata Op. 26 - II - Allegro 

vivace e leggero (Horowitz).wav

	 Peak level 35.2 %
	 Track quality 100.0 %
	 Copy CRC 438037DC
	 Cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 2)  [D3EBA594], 

AccurateRip returned [3B248969]
	 Copy OK

Track  6

	 Filename C:\Documents and Settings\hollowman\My Documents\My 

Music\EAC\Vladimir Horowitz\Horowitz Plays Prokofiev, Barber, 

Kabalevsky- Sonatas\06\Barber - Piano Sonata Op. 26 - III - Adagio 

mesto (Horowitz).wav

	 Peak level 54.5 %
	 Track quality 100.0 %
	 Copy CRC 9C5EF9DD
	 Cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 2)  [CCB3590A], 

AccurateRip returned [4C6A266A]
	 Copy OK

Track  7

	 Filename C:\Documents and Settings\hollowman\My Documents\My 

Music\EAC\Vladimir Horowitz\Horowitz Plays Prokofiev, Barber, 

Kabalevsky- Sonatas\07\Barber - Piano Sonata Op. 26 - IV - Fuga - 

Allegro con spirito (Horowitz).wav

	 Peak level 53.0 %
	 Track quality 100.0 %
	 Copy CRC 4B90CDF7
	 Cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 2)  [2098098D], 

AccurateRip returned [4D05DB5F]
	 Copy OK

Track  8

	 Filename C:\Documents and Settings\hollowman\My Documents\My 

Music\EAC\Vladimir Horowitz\Horowitz Plays Prokofiev, Barber, 

Kabalevsky- Sonatas\08\Kabalevsky - Piano Sonata No. 3 Op. 46 - I - 

Allegro con moto (Horowitz).wav

	 Peak level 83.2 %
	 Track quality 99.9 %
	 Copy CRC 82178938
	 Cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 2)  [D456A096], 

AccurateRip returned [38B1E8CA]
	 Copy OK

Track  9

	 Filename C:\Documents and Settings\hollowman\My Documents\My 

Music\EAC\Vladimir Horowitz\Horowitz Plays Prokofiev, Barber, 

Kabalevsky- Sonatas\09\Kabalevsky - Piano Sonata No. 3 Op. 46 - II 

- Andante cantabile (Horowitz).wav

	 Peak level 70.9 %
	 Track quality 99.9 %
	 Copy CRC B7AB0F32
	 Cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 2)  [4AD7B32A], 

AccurateRip returned [040ADF41]
	 Copy OK

Track 10

	 Filename C:\Documents and Settings\hollowman\My Documents\My 

Music\EAC\Vladimir Horowitz\Horowitz Plays Prokofiev, Barber, 

Kabalevsky- Sonatas\10\Kabalevsky - Piano Sonata No. 3 Op. 46 - III 

- Allegro Giocoso (Horowitz).wav

	 Peak level 68.9 %
	 Track quality 100.0 %
	 Copy CRC 9A2D8FE7
	 Cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 2)  [3FBBE95E], 

AccurateRip returned [B189758B]
	 Copy OK

Track 11

	 Filename C:\Documents and Settings\hollowman\My Documents\My 

Music\EAC\Vladimir Horowitz\Horowitz Plays Prokofiev, Barber, 

Kabalevsky- Sonatas\11\Prokofiev - Toccata Op. 11 (Horowitz).wav

	 Peak level 69.6 %
	 Track quality 100.0 %
	 Copy CRC E6B2F6FD
	 Cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 2)  [F2E2BD8B], 

AccurateRip returned [F4F0C26B]
	 Copy OK

Track 12

	 Filename C:\Documents and Settings\hollowman\My Documents\My 

Music\EAC\Vladimir Horowitz\Horowitz Plays Prokofiev, Barber, 

Kabalevsky- Sonatas\12\Faure - Nocturne No. 13 Op. 119 

(Horowitz).wav

	 Peak level 97.0 %
	 Track quality 99.9 %
	 Copy CRC 2F1EABEE
	 Cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 2)  [815FD2DC], 

AccurateRip returned [6E9646F4]
	 Copy OK

Track 13

	 Filename C:\Documents and Settings\hollowman\My Documents\My 

Music\EAC\Vladimir Horowitz\Horowitz Plays Prokofiev, Barber, 

Kabalevsky- Sonatas\13\Poulenc - Presto for Piano in B flat major 

(Horowitz).wav

	 Peak level 58.0 %
	 Track quality 100.0 %
	 Copy CRC 8EC4223C
	 Cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 2)  [D530F3F3], 

AccurateRip returned [69E68FFB]
	 Copy OK


11 track(s) could not be verified as accurate
 2 track(s) not fully ripped for AccurateRip lookup

No tracks could be verified as accurate

No errors occurred

End of status report
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EAC: File Creation Error on first CD track

Reply #4 –
Your paths and/or filenames are too long, this is the reason for your error.

Regarding the aborted track, are you sure the entire thing was ripped?  Are you able to listen all the way through?

EAC: File Creation Error on first CD track

Reply #5 –
Quote from: greynol on
Your paths and/or filenames are too long, this is the reason for your error.

Regarding the aborted track, are you sure the entire thing was ripped?  Are you able to listen all the way through?

Thx for your reply. Now that I think about it, I do remember having this issue before , but don't recall if it was the shortening the file name and/or removing "troublesome" text character(s) that was the ultimate fix. You're correct: the aborted track didn't ripped all the way thru!

Will post back when I have some better answers.

EAC: File Creation Error on first CD track

Reply #6 –
Yes, illegal characters can do this as well, but I think EAC already handles this as a potential problem by mapping them to legal ones.  I don't think that it does anything about illegal characters being passed by parameter, though.

Did you want that track to rip all the way through?

EAC: File Creation Error on first CD track

Reply #7 –
Although it is possible to create very long paths (by moving directories into other directories) on NTFS partitions, accessing files or directories directly if their path exceeds 255 characters fails.

It's also possible to get to those files by moving a directory up in the the hierarchy, for example to the root of the filesystem tree "X:\".

EAC: File Creation Error on first CD track

Reply #8 –
Quote from: greynol on
Yes, illegal characters can do this as well, but I think EAC already handles this as a potential problem by mapping them to legal ones.  I don't think that it does anything about illegal characters being passed by parameter, though.

I think you're right. The folder (directory) name lengths are another snag  -- as you implied earlier -- so newbies take note!

Quote
Did you want that track to rip all the way through?

Yes.

EAC: File Creation Error on first CD track

Reply #10 –
I, too faced this problem when ripping a VA sampler.
While I'm not sure which of the following solved the problem, this is what I did to overcome:

a. Unchecked Various Artists checkbox
b. Replaced "/" character with "-" character in titles
c. Populated previously unpopulated tag fields:
  - CD Artist
  - Year
  - Genre

Hope this helps someone in the future.

EAC: File Creation Error on first CD track

Reply #11 –
I just had this problem.  At first I thought it was my recent upgrade to Win10 (I don't use EAC often), but I finally noticed that the metadata that was downloaded for the disc had an empty per-track Artist field.  So it was trying to write the empty %artist% tag into filenames and that caused the problem.  Just filling the fields out fixed it.

That's the first metadata that I've seen like that, it never came up before.
Author of -Wavpack4Wavelab- and -CheckWavpackFiles-

Re: EAC: File Creation Error on first CD track

Reply #12 –
Hey!

Gerynol mentioned illegal characters. Let me add that HIDDEN characters will also choke EAC.

I just tried to rip a disc and got the File Creation Error on every track. There were no odd start locations, no hidden content at the start of the disc. There were no wacky characters in the path or track names. Everything looked fine at first blush.

I cleared all metadata and manually re-entered it. The disc ripped as normal after doing so.

You have to be a sad piece of work to intentionally insert hidden characters into metadata.