Total Newbie in KC area needs help-prepurchase

[cptkcmuscl]

While I am usually pretty quick on most technical stuff but this escapes me. Mainly I suppose the fact that I cannot even get EAC to work properly with a FLAC plugin has got me too frustrated to begin with. When I contacted tech support here they said read the material here. Well at the rate I'm getting throught it I will be looking for another year before I can use my ReadyNAS and any slimdevice units. All my computer tech support type friends in the area don't know anything about this and aren't interested either. I have over 900 CD's that I need to transfer to FLAC including regular CD's and possibly my DTS CD's as well if possible. I am looking at buying a few squeezebox2's. Anyone in the KC area that might be willing to help on site? I am willing to pay something to get the mechanics worked out.

Thanks
Larry

[WeedMonkey]

Hi,

You might get a better response to your question if you post over on the ripping/encoding section of the forum (http://forums.slimdevices.com/forumdisplay.php?f=8).

Also, someone posted this link in another thread relating to using FLAC with EAC, and it seems pretty good:

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/...howtopic=30959

Hang in there, you'll get it.

WeedMonkey

[cptkcmuscl]

I will try posting there. I followed those instructions mentioned.

[seanadams]

Also you might consider our ripping service:

http://www.slimdevices.com/pi_ripping.html

[cptkcmuscl]

I have...at that rate I can buy a lot more Sony Changers. With the Music Library program, my Slinke units I already have, in two homes, the cost of additional blank CD's is nothing. I was trying to eliminate bulk is all. An additional $1400 plus and still having to retag classical and custom CD's, the whole project would be way out of bounds. Kinda like giving away a 500SEL mercedes to buy a SLK to save gas.

Larry

[abdomen]

I have...at that rate I can buy a lot more Sony Changers. With the Music Library program, my Slinke units I already have, in two homes, the cost of additional blank CD's is nothing. I was trying to eliminate bulk is all. An additional $1400 plus and still having to retag classical and custom CD's, the whole project would be way out of bounds. Kinda like giving away a 500SEL mercedes to buy a SLK to save gas.

Even given the time required to refine tags, if I had it to do over again with my ~200 CD collection, I would put a value on my time and go with the ripping service. The roughly $1.37 per CD for FLAC would have been worth it in order to spare myself the swap-CDs-every-ten-minutes routine. It winds up taking months, and has become torturous as it competes with other things I would like to do when I am at home. 900 I can't even imagine.

[mac]

Anyone in the KC area that might be willing to help on site? I am willing to pay something to get the mechanics worked out.

Thanks
Larry

I threw together a web page that shows which three EAC dialogs need configuring. You first need to download the Flac decoder from here: http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/eac6.html Pick the version with the installer. Next, run the installer. The rest should hopefully be intuitave by viewing my screen shots. (Assuming you're using Windows.) Good luck. /mac

http://lowfat.sytes.net/~mike/EAC/EAC_settings/

[seanadams]

Kinda like giving away a 500SEL mercedes to buy a SLK to save gas.

Well, it does fit in very small parking spaces.

[Robin Bowes]

mac wrote:
> You first need to download the Flac decoder from here:
> http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/eac6.html

Spot the deliberate mistake

Flac is available here:

http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html

> http://lowfat.sytes.net/~mike/EAC/EAC_settings/

Hmmm. I'm not sure I agree with some of those settings.

I must write a guide to setting up EAC.

R.
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and his wife's not there,
is he still wrong?

[cptkcmuscl]

Using the suggested settings it still will not reencode the .wavs into flac. There is a dos window that opens and closes very quickly thAt says there is an error but too quickly for me to read it. This was after I installed both on another computer. Same issue.
Really appreciate someone local to look at this.
Larry