Ripping your CDs to FLAC

[Skyedriver]

I know its been discussed before, but I am now trying to do this for myself and as usual getting stuck...
I tried EAC but couldn't work my way around it - too many questions, not enough knowledge
Then tried Foobar 2000 - we-hey, got a CD in FLAC.
No artist, no track names, no cover.
Tried the help pages and as usual I come to them what know, so....HELP......

[mike_knott]

I used EAC so am probably not massively qualified to answer, but did you install the freedb tagger when you installed Foobar?

If so, there should be an information lookup source dropdown on the rip audio cd dialogue box, with the option for freedb which is where foobar will get its tags from.

Mike...

[probedb]

I'm not sure what to say, foobar just works, out of the box. As does EAC if you follow the guides.

http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Exac...
http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Foob...

I use dbPoweramp myself.

[nonuts]

EAC works great for me, I've now got through about 200 CDs, either using FreeDB or GD3 plugin to get the disc data and cover. GD3 is easier but you have to pay and they don't actually have as many discs as FreeDB.

There are a lot of guides for EAC but I basically just followed the step by step other than setting the fact I wanted the files stored as Artist Folder -> Album Folder -> Individual Tracks.

Works great if a little slow, to the point where I bought another CD drive so I can do two at once now which EAC copes fine with.

[JonRB]

I used to use WinDAC but these days use EAC. It really isn't that hard to set up; there are loads of tutorials around. But I agree it is a bit of a faff as you have to source LameENC yourself due to (potential) copyright issues.

[Tigerite]

I find one of the best tools (and it's free) is CUERipper: http://www.cuetools.net/wiki/CUERipper

[WelshBoyo]

I use winamp as it uses the free codec from http://flac.sourceforge.net/

[Skyedriver]

probedb said:

I'm not sure what to say, foobar just works, out of the box. As does EAC if you follow the guides.

http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Exac...
http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Foob...

I use dbPoweramp myself.

Well
Thanks everyone for thr encouragement
Went back to the foobar set up and with another CD I got the titles but not the album cover. Although since I use a Cowon X7 which is notorious for not showing the cover that may not be too much of a worry
Might try loading EAC again. Is theresomething else I need with that programme?

[budgie smuggler]

Can you make foobar fetch/store album art then? I use mp3tag (works with flac, aac and others, despite the name). It's not an automated process though.

As others have mentioned, dbPowerAMP does it. Don't think EAC does.

Edit: A quick google reveals this plugin, might help? http://khromov.wordpress.com/2011/02/06/automatica...

[nonuts]

EAC does do album art unless I'm missing something, how are you trying to rip the music? If you do it as folders with individual tracks and use either FreeDB or GD3 to download the track info and album art then it works fine (it saves a jpg in the album folder). I even copied a few albums over to my Samsung S3 phone and it plays them and recognizes the artwork without any issues.

Using Twonky Server to share the music with my Marantz NA7004 it's working perfectly as well after a little change in twonky to make it keep things in track order rather than alphabetical.

[Skyedriver]

Hi haven't found the way to get the art yet with Foobar despite downloading (I think) the add on .
The reason it wouldn't find the track names was it was an obscure (relatively) CD.
Strange one out of 3 Kathryn Tickell CD's finds tracks two don't
Cheers will keep trying

[probedb]

Skyedriver said:

Hi haven't found the way to get the art yet with Foobar despite downloading (I think) the add on .
The reason it wouldn't find the track names was it was an obscure (relatively) CD.
Strange one out of 3 Kathryn Tickell CD's finds tracks two don't
Cheers will keep trying

I know it'd be 2 steps, but get mp3tag as you can grab album art using that and it's normally pretty good