FLAC converter

[citabria327]

Hello
It seems like my copy of EAC no longer converts cd's to FLAC. They wind up as WAV files. My touch doesnt see them. What burners are best to use for FLAC?

Thanks
Mike

[Julf]

Hello
It seems like my copy of EAC no longer converts cd's to FLAC. They wind up as WAV files. My touch doesnt see them. What burners are best to use for FLAC?

Sounds like a settings issue, but if not, just use the reference FLAC encoder to convert the WAVs to FLACs.

[citabria327]

Sounds like a settings issue, but if not, just use the reference FLAC encoder to convert the WAVs to FLACs.

Thanks. so look for 'the reference flac encoder?

[Julf]

Thanks. so look for 'the reference flac encoder?

https://xiph.org/flac/

[JohnB]

You might want to look at the following link to see whether you can restore the Flac compression within EAC:

https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.ph...e=EAC_and_FLAC

If you want an easy to use Flac encoder/decoder there is Flac Frontend which gives a simple GUI to the official Flac tools (and is linked to on the ofificial Flac website).

http://flacfrontend.sourceforge.net

[Percival Sweetwater]

Hi Mike,

The latest version of EAC is 1.3, from September 2016. I think that by default it already uses an instance of the flac encoder. You can also use an external flac encoder, as I do. Download the latest version of flac from: https://xiph.org/flac/download.html (Flac 1.3.2). I use the Windows 64 bit version, and extract both the 'flac.exe', and 'metaflac.exe' to a new folder at C:\Program Files\flac. You can then point EAC to this folder in Compression Options (F11):



Then select 'Action_Copy Selected Tracks_Compressed' in EAC. It should compress each track after it has ripped it. In 'Additional command-line options' You can also specify the compression level and naming convention.

[citabria327]

Hi Mike,

The latest version of EAC is 1.3, from September 2016. I think that by default it already uses an instance of the flac encoder. You can also use an external flac encoder, as I do. Download the latest version of flac from: https://xiph.org/flac/download.html (Flac 1.3.2). I use the Windows 64 bit version, and extract both the 'flac.exe', and 'metaflac.exe' to a new folder at C:\Program Files\flac. You can then point EAC to this folder in Compression Options (F11):



Then select 'Action_Copy Selected Tracks_Compressed' in EAC. It should compress each track after it has ripped it. In 'Additional command-line options' You can also specify the compression level and naming convention.

NICE! Thank you!

[citabria327]

NICE! Thank you!

if my music is stored on my I drive, is that what i should use for the encoder as well? thanks

[Percival Sweetwater]

if my music is stored on my I drive, is that what i should use for the encoder as well? thanks

It doesn't really matter. C:\ is usually the drive where the operating system (Windows) is installed.

BTW, Just found a brand new version of flac (1.3.3): https://www.videohelp.com/software/FLAC-Encoder

[Percival Sweetwater]

If you have already ripped CDs as .wav files, I would use Foobar 2000 to convert them to flac, using the same C:\flac\flac.exe as the encoder.