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EAC > foobar > FLAC > Beginnings of songs messed up

Hey,

I'm in a big rush to archive a few CDs before going back to my last semester. These aren't copy-protected CDs.

I had some issues with EAC directly to FLAC, so I've been doing EAC to WAV, then opening the CUE in foobar and converting to FLAC. For EAC's CUE generation, I had an issue with "Current gap settings" (foobar gave me an error), so I searched around and found that someone had gotten the same error on these forums, and that the problem was most likely foobar wanting a compliant CUE. So I've been using Multitrack WAV + Corrected Gaps to generate the CUE sheets, with Detection Method C, Secure.

The WAVs come out absolutely perfect. But after conversion, FLACs in the general vicinity of gaps sometimes have late starts. About a second or two of the beginning of the affected songs is cut off.

I'm guessing that foobar is having a problem understanding the CUE sheets generated by EAC, and when it hits a gap, it "cuts" it into the next song to be converted to FLAC, removing part of the beginning.

I can probably go back and debug through EAC with compression and get that working, but I'm now curious about what happened here. It seems kind of a lose/lose situation if "Current settings" makes non-compliant CUEs, but multitrack+corrected makes CUEs that cause conversion problems to FLAC.

EAC > foobar > FLAC > Beginnings of songs messed up

Reply #1 –
Quote from: ZeaLitY on
I had some issues with EAC directly to FLAC

Here [Link] is a simple guide for using FLAC with EAC. The command line in the example uses the defualt compression level of 5. If you want maximum compression, for example, change the -5 to -8. As shown, do not enable "Add ID3 tag".

Quote from: ZeaLitY on
So I've been using Multitrack WAV + Corrected Gaps to generate the CUE sheets

The cue sheet setting must correspond to the right extraction method, otherwise you can have problems like you described.

The setting "Multiple Files With Corrected Gaps" should only be used in combination with "Append Gaps to Next Track". But I don't recommend that these settings be used, because the WAV files will be physically split with the gaps at the beginnings of tracks instead of the ends, and this is typically not a natural way to do it. You can read here [Link] and here [Link] for more detailed information about EAC's cue sheets and gap settings.

If you can't get EAC to compress directly to FLAC, and want to continue to use foobar to convert, then I recommend that you use "Copy Image & Create CUE Sheet". This will create a single WAV file "image", but foobar will have no problem with this file and cue sheet. It will treat the image + cue as separate tracks when converting, so unless you directly specify to convert to an image, multiple tracks is what you will get.
 

EAC > foobar > FLAC > Beginnings of songs messed up

Reply #2 –
Thanks for the help! I love these forums to death.