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File Creation Error for the first track on most CD's

Recently when I've tried ripping a few CD's, the very first track will appear with the "File Creation Error". The entire CD and tracks will rip perfectly fine APART from the very first one of a handful CD's I've tried.

I've searched through a sea of previous threads trying to find a solution, and have taken every bit of advice I could to get this working, but to absolutely no avail. I've tried different directories, moving folders, changing names, removing "illegal" characters, different less complex naming schemes, "Skip extraction on read and sync errors" being unchecked, almost anything I could think of that would get the random first track to extract correctly.

I thought it was because I rip a lot of Japanese CD's with odd characters, but I had ripped plenty in the past with complex characters, and it sometimes just doesn't work even with regular Latin characters. I'm very much at a loss, it feels completely nonsensical why it works sometimes for certain CD's and not for others.

Is there anything else I can do? I apologise in advanced but I have absolutely no idea how to get a log file to share on here, something about going to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Exact Audio Copy" and then running the "CheckLog.exe". But that does absolutely nothing for me but flash a small command prompt window for a 10th of a second. Feel just completely lost, can anyone give me a hand here? Using "V1.3 from 2"

Re: File Creation Error for the first track on most CD's

Reply #1 –
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I apologise in advanced but I have absolutely no idea how to get a log file to share on here

EAC Options > Tools tab > Automatically write status report after extraction > enabled
After extraction, open the .log file from the output folder with a text editor (such as NotePad) to view, copy and post as text.
see also https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php?topic=119046.0
korth

Re: File Creation Error for the first track on most CD's

Reply #2 –
If I recall correctly, this error can happen if there are blank fields that EAC would use to create the directory or populate the file name. Ensure there is valid info in all the necessary fields.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?  ;~)

Re: File Creation Error for the first track on most CD's

Reply #3 –
Quote from: korth on
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I apologise in advanced but I have absolutely no idea how to get a log file to share on here

EAC Options > Tools tab > Automatically write status report after extraction > enabled
After extraction, open the .log file from the output folder with a text editor (such as NotePad) to view, copy and post as text.
see also https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php?topic=119046.0

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Exact Audio Copy V1.3 from 2. September 2016

EAC extraction logfile from 20. July 2020, 17:24

n-buna / 月を歩いている

Used drive  : HL-DT-STBDDVDRW CH12NS30   Adapter: 1  ID: 0

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

Read offset correction                      : 6
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                : 1024 kBit/s
Quality                         : High
Add ID3 tag                     : Yes
Command line compressor         : C:\Program Files (x86)\Exact Audio Copy\FLAC\FLAC.EXE
Additional command line options : -6 -V -T "ARTIST=%artist%" -T "TITLE=%title%" -T "ALBUM=%albumtitle%" -T "DATE=%year%" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%tracknr%" -T "GENRE=%genre%" -T "COMMENT=%comment%" -T "BAND=%albuminterpret%" -T "ALBUMARTIST=%albuminterpret%" -T "COMPOSER=%composer%" %haslyrics%--tag-from-file=LYRICS="%lyricsfile%"%haslyrics% -T "DISCNUMBER=%cdnumber%" -T "TOTALDISCS=%totalcds%" -T "TOTALTRACKS=%numtracks%" %hascover%--picture="%coverfile%"%hascover% %source% -o %dest%


TOC of the extracted CD

     Track |   Start  |  Length  | Start sector | End sector 
    ---------------------------------------------------------
        1  |  0:00.00 |  1:16.13 |         0    |     5712   
        2  |  1:16.13 |  4:00.16 |      5713    |    23728   
        3  |  5:16.29 |  4:03.62 |     23729    |    42015   
        4  |  9:20.16 |  3:25.74 |     42016    |    57464   
        5  | 12:46.15 |  4:59.15 |     57465    |    79904   
        6  | 17:45.30 |  1:57.14 |     79905    |    88693   
        7  | 19:42.44 |  5:38.66 |     88694    |   114109   
        8  | 25:21.35 |  4:24.68 |    114110    |   133977   
        9  | 29:46.28 |  4:26.44 |    133978    |   153971   
       10  | 34:12.72 |  0:39.48 |    153972    |   156944   
       11  | 34:52.45 |  1:18.36 |    156945    |   162830   
       12  | 36:11.06 |  4:57.67 |    162831    |   185172   
       13  | 41:08.73 |  4:13.38 |    185173    |   204185   
       14  | 45:22.36 |  4:55.12 |    204186    |   226322   
       15  | 50:17.48 |  1:55.66 |    226323    |   235013   


Track  1

     Filename x:\Users\Lewis\Documents\EAC CUE SHEET\n-buna - 月を歩いている (2016)\	モノローグ - n-buna.wav

     Pre-gap length  0:00:02.00

     Copy aborted

Track  2

     Filename x:\Users\Lewis\Documents\EAC CUE SHEET\n-buna - 月を歩いている (2016)\ルラ - n-buna.wav

     Copy aborted

Track  3

     Copy aborted

Track  4

     Pre-gap length  0:00:01.32

     Copy aborted

Track  5

     Copy aborted

Track  6

     Copy aborted

Track  7

     Pre-gap length  0:00:00.72

     Copy aborted

Track  8

     Pre-gap length  0:00:00.32

     Copy aborted

Track  9

     Pre-gap length  0:00:02.81

     Copy aborted

Track 10

     Pre-gap length  0:00:02.32

     Copy aborted

Track 11

     Copy aborted

Track 12

     Pre-gap length  0:00:00.82

     Copy aborted

Track 13

     Pre-gap length  0:00:01.82

     Copy aborted

Track 14

     Copy aborted

Track 15

     Copy aborted


 1 track(s) not fully ripped for AccurateRip lookup
14 track(s) canceled

No tracks could be verified as accurate

There were errors

End of status report

==== Log checksum 6D9C277ACBC5B722E688F656321B864601BC6EC9EC3FBAB52F390E6198C623EC ====

Re: File Creation Error for the first track on most CD's

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The log shows the first character of the filename as a tab (not allowed).
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	モノローグ - n-buna.wav
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0x9, 0x30e2, 0x30ce, 0x30ed, 0x30fc, 0x30b0, 0x20, 0x2d, 0x20, 0x6e, 0x2d, 0x62, 0x75, 0x6e, 0x61, 0x2e, 0x77, 0x61, 0x76
korth

Re: File Creation Error for the first track on most CD's

Reply #5 –
Same thing started happening to me a couple of weeks ago on my main PC.

Could rip fine with other computers, so I've just sent my old CD drive to the bin and installed a fresh replacement.  Same thing.

Only difference I can think of between successful and unsuccessful rips with the same CDs is that the workers are not running the Windows 10 build 2004 update.  Is that somehow putting a lock on the drive and preventing EAC from writing?

Are you running build 2004?

Is the EAC developer contactable through this board?

Re: File Creation Error for the first track on most CD's

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Is the EAC developer contactable through this board?
No

Edit: I have not experienced issues with version 2004.
korth

Re: File Creation Error for the first track on most CD's

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I have not experienced issues with version 2004.
Interesting, thanks.

There are clearly various problems with this update that impact users differently depending on their hardware configuration, and I seem to have seen suggestions that write permissions is one general issue.

Guess I'll now have to block automatic updates on the old machine I know still works reliably with EAC.  And go and fish my old CD drive out of the bin :D