Eli's Suggested EAC settings for FLAC
Reply #90 – 2007-09-14 09:30:05
I'll check out the thread, but are you sure that if I enable C2 pointers with Test and Copy, it won't affect the quality of my rip? If the CRCs match, I'm every bit as sure that the quality won't be affected as I am if you don't use C2 pointers, or you use burst mode for that matter. This does not mean with 100% certainty that the rips with matching CRCs are accurate, regardless of the configuration.Just for the record, I have the original Plextor Premium drive. It is supposively the best CDRW to have ever came out. I'm not talking about the Plextor Premium's successor, but the original! Numbers Spoon gathered from AR submissions don't support this claim. Anyhow, I don't think you're going to run into many situations where the C2 setting will make a difference in accuracy when it comes to this drive.I don't have to enable FUA though right? I would think C2 and test and copy is more than adequate? You don't have to enable FUA, but you'll find a significant change in speed between FUA + C2 and flushing + C2. Try it for yourself. Where are the numbers that you quote Spoon to have reported? I'm also going to post my EAC log here and maybe you can analyse it to tell me if there are any problems with my settings and if any other further changes are necessary:Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 3 from 28. July 2007 EAC extraction logfile from 14. September 2007, 1:58 Christina Aguilera / Stripped Used drive : PLEXTOR CD-R PREMIUM Adapter: 5 ID: 0 Read mode : Secure Utilize accurate stream : Yes Defeat audio cache : Yes Make use of C2 pointers : Yes Read offset correction : 30 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 Gap handling : Appended to previous track Used output format : User Defined Encoder Selected bitrate : 320 kBit/s Quality : High Add ID3 tag : No Command line compressor : C:\Program Files\FLAC\flac.exe Additional command line options : -8 -V -T "artist=%a" -T "title=%t" -T "album=%g" -T "date=%y" -T "tracknumber=%n" -T "genre=%m" %s All tracks are accurately ripped as indicated by AccurateRip.