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A few questions....

Edit: I have edited the questions, so could someone reanswer some of them??

2. Does any body know when will MPC SV8 come out?? Sometime in summer or not??

9. Has anybody used Helium2?? what do you think of it?...

10. If it wasn't Secure mode in EAC and Parernoid Mode in CDex, which ripper is the easiest to use with support of APE 2.0 Tagging and MPC??

11. Does any of the CD burning program ( Nero, Feurio or EAC ) support burning from MPC to audio CD. ( Instead of decoding it manually and burn it.... )

13. What are the consequence if my drive does not support C2 when i rip music in EAC?? Does that mean results would be incorrect??

14. When playing MPC or any other format, would sound card effect the quality output?? I.e would there be any difference between Creative Audigy and AC97 2.2 with the same set of speakers??


I think i still have a few more questions.... but i will post them when i remember them...

Thx

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3. Does Helium 2 support APE 2.0 tags??

no not yet.
As far as I know it is planned.

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9. Has anybody used Helium2?? what do you think of it?...

I don't have the latest version. I don't know why...? :mad:
Great for mass id3 tagging. too slow if you only use a few fields. Great for editing existing tags.
Does ogg tags but I don't like the way it's handled (no custom keys).

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4. Is ID3 v2.3/2.4 really that bad, if yes why??

Id3v2 is known to cause problems especially with vbr.
Gapless playback is hard to get when using id3v2-files (note that this is also a problem with mp3 itself, so jumping to the conclusion that id3v2-tags are to blaim for gaps in playback is wrong).

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5. Does Winamp 2.xx/3 support APE2.0 tags, and does it support ID3 v2.3/2.4??

wa2.xx:
the mp3 plug-in supports id3v2.3 not id3v2.4
the mpc plug-in supports APEv2.

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6. MPC with Quality 8 ( braindead ) sounds extremely good.. ( tranperant.. ) but would it still sounds as good if i decode it back to wave?? ( I am making a Audio CD )

It should be the same.
it is decoded to wave anyway on playback.

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7. If i make a Cue Sheet, but instead of storing .wav, uses Monkey's Audio??

What do you mean?

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7. When making a Cue sheet, the whole CD 's Audio data will be stored in the Cue sheet as Wave, can i make a cue sheet that store Audio Data in Monkey's Audio format??

8. Can i do that ( questions 7 -  Cue sheet with Monkey audio ) ) directly through EAC??

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7. When making a Cue sheet, the whole CD 's Audio data will be stored in the Cue sheet as Wave, can i make a cue sheet that store Audio Data in Monkey's Audio format??

I don't get the impression that you really know what a cue sheet is, sorry.
a cue sheet is just a list of tracks with lenght and how long the gaps are.
You have the wave-file seperately.
you can encode this wave file to ape, but you'll of course have to decode back before burning it to a cdr.
I really don't know what your point is but I would like to help....
Can you tell me what you need this for and what you are trying to do?

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Originally posted by iwod
1. Why has EAC been developing so slowly?? When will we see the light of 1.0??


On the EAC webpage (http://www.exactaudiocopy.de ) Andre explains his first motivation :

I am writing this software, because I am fed up with these other audio grabbers. I always had to listen to all grabbed waves, (...) So in march I decided to write my own audio grabber, mainly for my and my friends private usage.

Now, he and most users can use it to rip their CDs. I think he didn't foresee the sucess it would have, and now, maybe he feels a little forced to go on, with all the people asking for improvements on the ML (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eac/)and the forum (http://www.digital-inn.de/forumdisplay.php3?forumid=14 ), while he would just have stopped otherwise and kept it as it is for himself. Just imagine, you fix something that doesn't work very well in your computer, and you end up with hundreds of people asking, commenting, helping, too...

Of course, it must be interesting. And it's a very good thing for his professional life to have done this. But he can't spend all his sparetime developing EAC. He already announced that there would be no fixes for the burning engine. I can understand him : too much time to spend on an unuseful thing, since Feurio is there and work perfectly for burning. And it would mean upgrading it constantly for new burners support in the future. What a pain !
He has been busy lately developing the wizard and the GUI for the beta version, now he maybe prefers spending a little time with his friends or family, instead of his computer, when he comes back from working.

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Originally posted by Jan S.
 
I don't get the impression that you really know what a cue sheet is, sorry.
a cue sheet is just a list of tracks with lenght and how long the gaps are.
You have the wave-file seperately.
you can encode this wave file to ape, but you'll of course have to decode back before burning it to a cdr.
I really don't know what your point is but I would like to help....
Can you tell me what you need this for and what you are trying to do?


Basically i am try to make a copy of all my CDs on my computer first. And when SV8 comes out i will turn all of them into MPCs. Since copying all audio data consumes a lot of space. SO i am wondeirng if i could do it with lossless compression. Since creating a Cue sheet would allow me to emulate it as an Audio CD in Daemon tools. so what i am thinking is a cue sheet with monkey audio and still be able to emulate it in Daemon tools.... but i try it out last night and it didn't work..... so nevermind...

and question 10.

10. If it wasn't Secure mode in EAC and Parernoid Mode in CDex, which ripper is the easiest to use with support of APE 2.0 Tagging and MPC??

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Originally posted by Pio2001


He has been busy lately developing the wizard and the GUI for the beta version, now he maybe prefers spending a little time with his friends or family, instead of his computer, when he comes back from working.


Too tired? Solution is very simple: Open source.
She is waiting in the air

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could somebody kindly reply to some of my questions....
 

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Originally posted by iwod
2. Does any body know when will MPC SV8 come out?? Sometime in summer or not??

Nobody knows.

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9. Has anybody used Helium2?? what do you think of it?...

I tried some demo version, was too difficult for me.

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10. If it wasn't Secure mode in EAC and Parernoid Mode in CDex, which ripper is the easiest to use with support of APE 2.0 Tagging and MPC??

They are both easy to setup, I prefer EAC's way.

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11. Does any of the CD burning program ( Nero, Feurio or EAC ) support burning from MPC to audio CD. ( Instead of decoding it manually and burn it.... )

EAC when you have original Buschmann's decoder in program's directory. But it is better to decode to wav with later binaries, old version sometimes caused gap bugs.

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13. What are the consequence if my drive does not support C2 when i rip music in EAC?? Does that mean results would be incorrect??

If you don't check the C2 option you won't have problems ripping. C2 would only make ripping faster.

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14. When playing MPC or any other format, would sound card effect the quality output?? I.e would there be any difference between Creative Audigy and AC97 2.2 with the same set of speakers??

Sure sound card affects, but it's another matter if the differences are audible on the equipment used. If you want best results from AC97 compatible sound cards, use Peter's SSRC plugins in Winamp and resample to 48 kHz.