Installing, configuring, and ripping with Exact Audio Copy (EAC)

HI need some help. I just installed EAC 1.0 beta 3 by following the guide that Ca_aok wrote. Everything seems OK and I can rip WAV and FLAC files (yeah I keep the WAV files too).... but the problem is that neither the WAV nor the FLAC files are playing on my PC (i tried to play those with Foobar, Mediamonkey, VLC, etc but nothing worked).
Just to test if there's any problem with the CDs, I ripped those with Foobar and the ripped files played just fine on my PC
All other FlAC and WAV files on my PC play fine .....even FLAC/WAV files that i created a year back using an older version of EAC (the PC where i had that old version installed crashed and i got myself a new PC hence i had to reinstall EAC all over again).

I even trying uninstalling the EAC and reinstalling again - but I still have the same issue : File ripped OK but the files don't play

Can somebody please help?

Here is an extract from the data sheet of one of the CDs that I ripped but ripped files are not playing:

Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 3 from 29. August 2011

EAC extraction logfile from 16. May 2013, 21:48

Faith Hill / The Hits

Used drive : HL-DT-STBD-RE BH16NS40 Adapter: 0 ID: 1

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 : Yes
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 : 320 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files (x86)\Exact Audio Copy\Flac\flac.exe
Additional command line options : -8 -V -T "ARTIST=%artist%" -T "TITLE=%title%" -T "ALBUM=%albumtitle%" -T "DATE=%year%" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%tracknr%" -T "GENRE=%genre%" -T "PERFORMER=%albuminterpret%" -T "COMPOSER=%composer%" %haslyrics%--tag-from-file=LYRICS="%lyricsfile%"%haslyrics% -T "ALBUMARTIST=%albumartist%" -T "DISCNUMBER=%cdnumber%" -T "TOTALDISCS=%totalcds%" -T "TOTALTRACKS=%numtracks%" -T "COMMENT=%comment%" %source% -o %dest%


TOC of the extracted CD

Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
---------------------------------------------------------
1 | 0:00.00 | 3:39.44 | 0 | 16468
2 | 3:39.44 | 6:15.32 | 16469 | 44625
3 | 9:55.01 | 4:08.54 | 44626 | 63279
4 | 14:03.55 | 4:11.28 | 63280 | 82132
5 | 18:15.08 | 3:52.73 | 82133 | 99605
6 | 22:08.06 | 3:47.73 | 99606 | 116703
7 | 25:56.04 | 3:41.51 | 116704 | 133329
8 | 29:37.55 | 3:28.73 | 133330 | 149002
9 | 33:06.53 | 4:08.13 | 149003 | 167615
10 | 37:14.66 | 4:15.20 | 167616 | 186760
11 | 41:30.11 | 4:25.19 | 186761 | 206654
12 | 45:55.30 | 3:15.28 | 206655 | 221307
13 | 49:10.58 | 3:18.35 | 221308 | 236192
14 | 52:29.18 | 4:01.63 | 236193 | 254330
15 | 56:31.06 | 2:47.00 | 254331 | 266855


Track 1

Filename D:\Youtube Downloads\EAC TEST\faith\01 Red Umbrella.wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:02.00

Peak level 46.0 %
Extraction speed 2.7 X
Track quality 96.8 %
Test CRC 28C3E28D
Copy CRC 28C3E28D
Track not present in AccurateRip database
Copy OK

Track 2

Filename D:\Youtube Downloads\EAC TEST\faith\02 Stronger (live).wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:00.82

Peak level 46.0 %
Extraction speed 1.0 X
Track quality 96.8 %
Test CRC 6B264754
Copy CRC 6B264754
Track not present in AccurateRip database
Copy OK

I'm in no way an expert but for Wav or Flac this kinda jumps out at you...


Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 320 kBit/s

Hey Stan, thanks fror the response. The tutorial says use "User Defined Encoder". I read somewhere that the selected bitrate field is irrelevant - anyway i tried ripping with 768kbps too - same problem - file doesn't play

OK, I'm back again : problem solved - found out the wrong settings in the Drive options and corrected those. Now everything is good in the world again. EAC rips to FLAC and WAV and the files play.... yaaaaaa :-D

Excellent guide..Thanks a lot

tHANK yOU!

Excellent

The most recent version of this is now mirrored at http://blowfish.be/eac

Also yes, the selected bitrate is irrelevant for the way the guide is set up. User-defined encoders use only the commandline settings to determine bitrate.

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Originally Posted by ca_aok

The most recent version of this is now mirrored at http://blowfish.be/eac

Also yes, the selected bitrate is irrelevant for the way the guide is set up. User-defined encoders use only the commandline settings to determine bitrate.

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Hi ca_aok

I followed your guide all the way up to the point of pre-ripping.

The reason is, I want to rip my CDs in AIFF. Not sure what options/settings should I adjust to make proper AIFF rips. Best sound quality is my goal.

Could you please tell me what to do/change? This would be my third time ripping my CD collection and I definitely want it to be the last since its growing at a very fast rate lately :)

Awesome guide, properly explained. Keep it up!

I'm no expert at ripping to AIFF as it's pointless for almost all users... it's a Mac only format and EAC is a Windows only program. Additionally it's inefficient (essentially the Mac equivalent of WAV files) compared to something like Apple Lossless. Nonetheless:

The differences are in Step 6: Compression Options.

Download Sox here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/sox/files/sox/14.4.1/
Install the Windows version to a folder you can easily find.

Under "use file extension", type in .aiff or .aif instead of .flac

Instead of browsing to C:\Program Files (x86)\FLAC\flac.exe (as shown in the image), browse to C:\whatever\sox.exe. By default it'll be at C:\Program Files (x86)\sox-14-4-1\sox.exe

Make the command line the following:
-t wav %source% -t aif %dest%

Keep in mind you can't tag AIFF files, at least not that I'm aware of. Hope that helps!

Ok, i've been searching for awhile and can't find the additional command line string for 320, V0, etc. (320 is most important to me). The one for FLAC in the guide here is far different from the command in the last version EAC I had installed (just reimaged/upgraded my box), so i'm assuming the same will be true for others. I hate to ask what seems like must be an oversight on my part, but i've put an hour into it now. Thanks in advance, and thanks for the updated guide!