EAC says there were errors after CD ripped, but all seems fine?

[Gazza_UK]

Hi,

I have started to use EAC and only a done a few albums at the moment. I used the the guide in these forums and compared with another EAC guide, to ensure it was hopefully set-up correctly.

I have it creating an error log at the end and each one so far says 'there were errors' and the last track on each one says 'missing samples'. Below is the log for the CD I have just done, can anyone please tell me what the error is, if any? I have skipped through some tracks at random and they seem fine to me. So I am at a loss as to what the actual problem is... or if there is one at all.

I only needed to put one CD in for it to get the offset and it would appear the newer version of EAC automatically installs AccurateRip, whereas the guide shows a separate install. I am seeing no info on screen for AccurateRip like you do within dBpoweramp.

Any advice/help/suggestions much appreciated.

Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 4 from 23. January 2008

EAC extraction logfile from 11. February 2008, 12:11

Anastacia / Anastacia

Used drive : HL-DT-STDVDRRW GSA-H30L Adapter: 0 ID: 1

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

Read offset correction : 102
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : No
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 : Not detected, thus appended to previous track

Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 1024 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files\FLAC\flac.exe
Additional command line options : -6 -T "artist=%a" -T "title=%t" -T "album=%g" -T "date=%y" -T "tracknumber=%n" -T "genre=%m" %s


TOC of the extracted CD

Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
---------------------------------------------------------
1 | 0:00.00 | 4:17.46 | 0 | 19320
2 | 4:17.46 | 4:17.32 | 19321 | 38627
3 | 8:35.03 | 3:33.17 | 38628 | 54619
4 | 12:08.20 | 3:30.19 | 54620 | 70388
5 | 15:38.39 | 4:26.22 | 70389 | 90360
6 | 20:04.61 | 3:04.07 | 90361 | 104167
7 | 23:08.68 | 4:03.06 | 104168 | 122398
8 | 27:11.74 | 4:37.25 | 122399 | 143198
9 | 31:49.24 | 3:52.67 | 143199 | 160665
10 | 35:42.16 | 4:12.70 | 160666 | 179635
11 | 39:55.11 | 3:26.32 | 179636 | 195117
12 | 43:21.43 | 5:15.61 | 195118 | 218803


Track 1

Filename F:\Music\Anastacia\Anastacia\01 - Seasons Change.wav

Peak level 96.6 %
Track quality 99.8 %
Copy CRC 7D3E9682
Copy OK

Track 2

Filename F:\Music\Anastacia\Anastacia\02 - Left Outside Alone.wav

Peak level 96.6 %
Track quality 100.0 %
Copy CRC B5D6A3C6
Copy OK

Track 3

Filename F:\Music\Anastacia\Anastacia\03 - Time.wav

Peak level 96.6 %
Track quality 100.0 %
Copy CRC BFDE9B44
Copy OK

Track 4

Filename F:\Music\Anastacia\Anastacia\04 - Sick And Tired.wav

Peak level 96.6 %
Track quality 100.0 %
Copy CRC 15583970
Copy OK

Track 5

Filename F:\Music\Anastacia\Anastacia\05 - Heavy On My Heart.wav

Peak level 96.6 %
Track quality 99.9 %
Copy CRC 5845007C
Copy OK

Track 6

Filename F:\Music\Anastacia\Anastacia\06 - I Do.wav

Peak level 96.6 %
Track quality 100.0 %
Copy CRC 6A866CF2
Copy OK

Track 7

Filename F:\Music\Anastacia\Anastacia\07 - Welcome To My Truth.wav

Peak level 96.6 %
Track quality 99.9 %
Copy CRC 89924ADC
Copy OK

Track 8

Filename F:\Music\Anastacia\Anastacia\08 - Pretty Little Dum Dum.wav

Peak level 96.6 %
Track quality 100.0 %
Copy CRC 42D2B0AD
Copy OK

Track 9

Filename F:\Music\Anastacia\Anastacia\09 - Sexy Single.wav

Peak level 96.6 %
Track quality 100.0 %
Copy CRC D372C0B6
Copy OK

Track 10

Filename F:\Music\Anastacia\Anastacia\10 - Rearview.wav

Peak level 96.6 %
Track quality 100.0 %
Copy CRC 1452935D
Copy OK

Track 11

Filename F:\Music\Anastacia\Anastacia\11 - Where Do I Belong.wav

Peak level 96.6 %
Track quality 100.0 %
Copy CRC F2C68BE3
Copy OK

Track 12

Filename F:\Music\Anastacia\Anastacia\12 - Maybe Today.wav

Missing samples
Peak level 96.6 %
Track quality 99.9 %
Copy CRC 4652865E
Copy finished

There were errors

End of status report

[autopilot]

Hello mate, nice to see you getting some help here, you will probably have more luck than on AV.

Anyway, the errors are caused by Anastacia's terrible songs. It's known as 'cheese overload'.



But seriously, i dont think there is anything to worry about there at all. Looks like a great rip. I dont think i have ever had a CD that was 100% for every track, even brand new ones out of a sealed case. I just shows how accurate/fussy EAC is, those rips look like they are perfectly acceptable. Stick with EAC, it's the best ripper if you can live without album art, and DBpowerAMP is not that much easier to use.

[Gazza_UK]

That made me laugh regarding cheese overload.

Album art I can easily add, but its only for display when looking at folders on Vista, I do not need it for any other reason.

I just ripped another album and again it said the exact same message. God knows why it says this every time on the last one, but if you say all looks good, then I shall carry on with the task at hand :-)

Cheers,

Gazza.

[Robin Bowes]

EAC says there were errors after CDripped, but all seems fine?

Gazza_UK wrote:

> I just ripped another album and again it said the exact same message.
> God knows why it says this every time on the last one, but if you say
> all looks good, then I shall carry on with the task at hand :-)

No, don't do that. If EAC says there are errors then there's something
wrong with your rip.

Track Quality < 100% doesn't make any difference, so there must be
something else going on.

Try doing a Test & Copy extraction (Shift-F6).

Also, I'd check your drive settings. The recommended settings for an
accurate rip are:

Checked Drive has 'Accurate Stream' feature
Checked Drive caches audio data
Unchecked Drive is capable of retrieving C2 error information

R.

[Khuli]

From the EAC FAQ:

When you get 99.7% and so on, that means that a bad sector was found, but the secure mode has corrected it - from 16 times of grabbing the sector, there were 8 or more identical results. So it only indicates read problems. It is the ratio between the number of minimum reads needed to perform the extraction and the number of reads that were actually performed. 100% will only occur when the CD was extracted without any rereads on errors. ONLY when there are suspicious positions reported, there are really uncorrectable read errors in the resulting audio file.

[Hercules]

To invoke Accurip I think you need to do the following:

- Either go into the "EAC" > "EAC Options" menu, and tick "Fill up missing offset samples with silence" on the "Extraction" tab

- Or go into the "EAC" > "Drive Options" menu, and tick "Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out" on the "Offset / Speed" tab

Looking at EAC on my PC here at work I can't see either of those settings although I've only just installed it and haven't been through the setup process. Those instructions have worked for me previously.

[Skunk]

Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : No

Changing the overread setting to 'Yes' may solve your problem with the last track missing samples. If it doesn't you can try changing it back to 'No' and change fill missing samples with silence to 'Yes'.

[Gazza_UK]

Gazza_UK wrote:

> I just ripped another album and again it said the exact same message.
> God knows why it says this every time on the last one, but if you say
> all looks good, then I shall carry on with the task at hand :-)

No, don't do that. If EAC says there are errors then there's something
wrong with your rip.

Track Quality < 100% doesn't make any difference, so there must be
something else going on.

Try doing a Test & Copy extraction (Shift-F6).

Also, I'd check your drive settings. The recommended settings for an
accurate rip are:

Checked Drive has 'Accurate Stream' feature
Checked Drive caches audio data
Unchecked Drive is capable of retrieving C2 error information

R.

It would appear my drive does not support cache and C2. I let EAC do a test of my drive and it came back yes/no/no. Hence why its only checked in Accurate Stream.

I just put a new CD in (did shift+F6)... the first track comes back with no errors... but the last track does. It would appear its the last track on every CD so far that is reporting the same.

Missing samples
Peak level 99.5 %
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 58083E40
Copy CRC 58083E40
Copy finished

What is this missing samples? Is there a setting in EAC that I might have got wrong as all tracks bar the last one report copy OK.

Thanks,

Gazza.

[Gazza_UK]

To invoke Accurip I think you need to do the following:

- Either go into the "EAC" > "EAC Options" menu, and tick "Fill up missing offset samples with silence" on the "Extraction" tab

- Or go into the "EAC" > "Drive Options" menu, and tick "Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out" on the "Offset / Speed" tab

Looking at EAC on my PC here at work I can't see either of those settings although I've only just installed it and haven't been through the setup process. Those instructions have worked for me previously.

Changing the overread setting to 'Yes' may solve your problem with the last track missing samples. If it doesn't you can try changing it back to 'No' and change fill missing samples with silence to 'Yes'.

Will give that a try now, thanks.

[Gazza_UK]

Just did same last track again and changing this option "EAC" > "Drive Options" menu, and tick "Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out" on the "Offset / Speed" tab.

Peak level 99.5 %
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC A40AA505
Copy CRC A40AA505
Track not present in AccurateRip database
Copy OK


None of the tracks are present in the AccurateRip database

No errors occurred

Although I would have expected this to be in the database, but at least that error has gone now on the last track.

Should I change it back and test with the other option, or will all be fine now?

Thanks,

Gazza.

[Skunk]

Should I change it back and test with the other option, or will all be fine now?

No, if the drive can overread then that should be your first choice. If it couldn't overread you'd have probably gotten a synch error, but it may be worth trying a full cd rather than just one track.

[Hercules]

Glad to hear it's now working Gazza :-)

[Gazza_UK]

Just a matter of curiosity, I have tried the other way and it now reports:

Peak level 99.9 %
Track quality 99.9 %
Copy CRC 55E57F7A
Accurately ripped (confidence 25) [2D9BD44E]
Copy OK


All tracks accurately ripped

No errors occurred

Thanks for everyone's input in helping me sort this out.

[autopilot]

Gazza_UK wrote:

> I just ripped another album and again it said the exact same message.
> God knows why it says this every time on the last one, but if you say
> all looks good, then I shall carry on with the task at hand :-)

No, don't do that. If EAC says there are errors then there's something
wrong with your rip.

Track Quality < 100% doesn't make any difference, so there must be
something else going on.

Try doing a Test & Copy extraction (Shift-F6).

Also, I'd check your drive settings. The recommended settings for an
accurate rip are:

Checked Drive has 'Accurate Stream' feature
Checked Drive caches audio data
Unchecked Drive is capable of retrieving C2 error information

R.

But will an error that small even be perceivable to the human, or are we splitting hairs here?

[Hercules]

But will an error that small even be perceivable to the human, or are we splitting hairs here?

That's what us lot do!

By the way is there a spelling mistake - i.e. "aplha" - in your signature? ;-)