Exact Audio Copy (EAC) Configuration

Exact Audio Copy (EAC) Configuration.md

Exact Audio Copy configuration

These instructions provide a way to accurately rip CDs using Exact Audio Copy (EAC).

Remove Previous Configuration

REG.EXE DELETE 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AWSoftware\EACU' /F
Remove-Item -Recurse -Force "$env:AppData\EAC"

REG.EXE DELETE 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Illustrate\dBpowerAMP' /F
Remove-Item -Recurse -Force "$env:AppData\AccurateRip"

Install EAC

Install from EAC Homepage

Direct link (v1.8, latest as of this writing)

First Run

Insert popular CD (for AccurateRip detection)

Run EAC

In EAC setup Wizard:

• Click Next twice. Wait for auto detection to complete.
• Choose "FLAC"
• Choose naming ABBA \ Number Ones \ 03 Dancing Queen
• Choose "I am an expert"
• Click Finish.

When "Configure AccurateRip" dialog shows, click "Configure".

When asked to use GD3 metadata provider, click "No".

EAC does a pretty good job with just that setup, but there's additional tweaks I prefer, as noted in the following sections.

Configure

EAC > EAC Options…

Extraction:

• Error recovery quality: Low

General:

• ☒ Disable CD Auto Start
• On unknown CDs: ☒ automatically access online database
• ☐ Display times using frames
• ☐ Show status dialog after extraction
• ☐ Beep after extraction finished
• ☒ Eject CD after extraction finished

Click OK.

EAC > Drive Options...

Drive:

• Click "Autodetect read command now".
• ☒ CD-Text Read capable drive

Click OK.

EAC > Compression Options...

Comment:

• ☒ Write following text into ID3 tag comment field: Exact Audio Copy

Click OK.

Extract Audio

Press Alt-G to get CD metadata, if it's not there.

Press Shift-F5 (or CMP button) to extract to FLAC.

References

Exact Audio Copy - Hydrogenaudio

Secure Ripping