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Re: Final Questions before ripping my CD col.- Single wave w/cue or Multiple waves w/cue and naming

Posted by andy_c on April 14, 2007 at 10:54:33

In Reply to: Re: Final Questions before ripping my CD col.- Single wave w/cue or Multiple waves w/cue and naming posted by Miab on April 13, 2007 at 21:36:31:

So if I understand correctly, I rip in multiple Wav's and convert to Flac while ripping...

Yes, that's correct. Once you set up EAC compression to automatically launch the FLAC compressor when ripping (per the link I posted earlier), you tell EAC to convert to FLAC automatically by choosing "Action, Copy Selected Tracks, Compressed" (Shift+F5) or "Action, Test and Copy Selected Tracks, Compressed" (Shift+F6). The second technique takes twice as long but allows you to compare the CRC codes of the test and the copy to make sure no errors occurred. To get EAC to automatically delete the WAV file after compressing, go to EAC, compression options, External Compression tab, and select "Delete WAV after compression".

...but Do I create a cue sheet or detect gaps before?

If you rip to individual files (one file per song instead of one file per CD), the cue sheet becomes unnecessary. However, you can still make one if you wish. If you tell EAC to create a cue sheet, it will automatically detect the gaps. I actually create a cue sheet for each CD even though I don't need it for playback of the music. The reason I do this is as a "double backup" strategy. If the original CD becomes damaged, I can convert the FLAC files to WAV and burn a new CD with EAC using the cue sheet. But most people don't do this.

Does the flac conversion also edit the Cue sheet (i.e. change 'wav' to 'flac' in text) as needed. Or do I do this manualy in notepad?

The FLAC conversion does not change the cue sheet, so it will still list the file(s) as having a ".wav" extension. But now the cue sheet is not really necessary anyway. When your playback software scans your collection, it creates its own intelligent database which allows it to find music by artist, by album, by song, etc. For example, the SlimServer software that is used by the Squeezebox internally uses a freeware relational database called MySQL for this. Only now, instead of getting the information from the cue sheet, it scans each file and retrieves the artist, album, song title and so on from the tags. So the cue sheet is out of the picture now.

Let's say you are using Foobar and you found a mistake such as a misspelling of an artist's name. You can fix this using the tag editing feature of Foobar. To do this, drag and drop the FLAC files by this artist onto the Foobar window, select the files, and choose "Properties". This will allow you to edit the tags and write the changes back into the files on disc. Then you can have Foobar rescan your library. In this example, the artist's name in the database will now show up with the correct spelling.

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