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Post by oldson on Oct 29, 2021 19:01:21 GMT
i have been using EAC for years to rip my cd's to my pc with only a few hitches along the way. still finding it great for my pc, but having trouble when i want to rip to usb sticks for use in my 2 vehicles. i have always preferred to use flac files which seems ok in my own vehicle. i have just had a new company van delivered which has a unit that will play music from usb stick, but it appears not flac files. (came to this conclusion myself as manual does not specify playable files.
so for this new van i need to get a new usb stick and rip to mp3 instead of flac. have tried several times with eac and foobar but not really getting anywhere. album, artist track info and album art all seem to be hit and miss. on my pc library i dont have album art as i dont need it, but when in my vehicles its nice to see it ( sad i know).
so rather than struggling on with these free rippers, is there something out there that is SIMPLE to follow and suit ripping in both formats, with or without album art? cheers
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Post by Mr Trev on Oct 29, 2021 21:29:05 GMT
i have been using EAC for years to rip my cd's to my pc with only a few hitches along the way. still finding it great for my pc, but having trouble when i want to rip to usb sticks for use in my 2 vehicles. i have always preferred to use flac files which seems ok in my own vehicle. i have just had a new company van delivered which has a unit that will play music from usb stick, but it appears not flac files. (came to this conclusion myself as manual does not specify playable files. so for this new van i need to get a new usb stick and rip to mp3 instead of flac. have tried several times with eac and foobar but not really getting anywhere. album, artist track info and album art all seem to be hit and miss. on my pc library i dont have album art as i dont need it, but when in my vehicles its nice to see it ( sad i know). so rather than struggling on with these free rippers, is there something out there that is SIMPLE to follow and suit ripping in both formats, with or without album art? cheers How new is the van? It seems odd to me that it wouldn't play flac files. Just off the top of my head I would think the problem might be more due to tagging than the format. Possibly your flac have some unsupported tags or the embedded album art is too big or wrong format. I would try mp3tag and strip all but the most important tags and scale to artwork to 1000x or less. Its been ages since I last fired up EAC (my laptop doesn't even have an optical drive), but from what I remember it should write the tags to mp3 just as well as flac. I have a program called cuetools that can rip to both lossy & lossless, but again, no drive so I can't say how well it'd work. But it is free so it might be worth a download. If your looking at purchasing software for this purpose, I can't recommend dbpoweramp enough. It'll do almost anything you need with music files and it is fairly easy to use, plus it has a good support forum. PS. If you want, PM me an album of files & I can take a look at them for you and see if I can figure out what's tripping you up. Ultimately it should be faster to "fix" the flac if needed rather than have to rerip (of course you could just convert the flac to mp3 with foobar and see if that works) <edit> I forgot to add… you should use m4a instead of mp3. mp3 actually hasn't seen anything resembling an update in decades and m4a is being constantly improved (m4a isn't an Apple format either, it was created by the same guys that did mp3 (Fraunhofer Society)
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Post by oldson on Oct 30, 2021 18:07:05 GMT
i have been using EAC for years to rip my cd's to my pc with only a few hitches along the way. still finding it great for my pc, but having trouble when i want to rip to usb sticks for use in my 2 vehicles. i have always preferred to use flac files which seems ok in my own vehicle. i have just had a new company van delivered which has a unit that will play music from usb stick, but it appears not flac files. (came to this conclusion myself as manual does not specify playable files. so for this new van i need to get a new usb stick and rip to mp3 instead of flac. have tried several times with eac and foobar but not really getting anywhere. album, artist track info and album art all seem to be hit and miss. on my pc library i dont have album art as i dont need it, but when in my vehicles its nice to see it ( sad i know). so rather than struggling on with these free rippers, is there something out there that is SIMPLE to follow and suit ripping in both formats, with or without album art? cheers How new is the van? It seems odd to me that it wouldn't play flac files. Just off the top of my head I would think the problem might be more due to tagging than the format. Possibly your flac have some unsupported tags or the embedded album art is too big or wrong format. I would try mp3tag and strip all but the most important tags and scale to artwork to 1000x or less. Its been ages since I last fired up EAC (my laptop doesn't even have an optical drive), but from what I remember it should write the tags to mp3 just as well as flac. I have a program called cuetools that can rip to both lossy & lossless, but again, no drive so I can't say how well it'd work. But it is free so it might be worth a download. If your looking at purchasing software for this purpose, I can't recommend dbpoweramp enough. It'll do almost anything you need with music files and it is fairly easy to use, plus it has a good support forum. PS. If you want, PM me an album of files & I can take a look at them for you and see if I can figure out what's tripping you up. Ultimately it should be faster to "fix" the flac if needed rather than have to rerip (of course you could just convert the flac to mp3 with foobar and see if that works) <edit> I forgot to add… you should use m4a instead of mp3. mp3 actually hasn't seen anything resembling an update in decades and m4a is being constantly improved (m4a isn't an Apple format either, it was created by the same guys that did mp3 (Fraunhofer Society) hi mate, thanks for the reply. the van is brand new but support literature is all but useless. it doesnt state supported files or max memory stick size. i did reformat an old usb stick and ripped just 1 flac file as a test but the head unit would not play it. i dont really understand tagging and tbh just want something really simple to use that has all necessary plugins already installed, i dont mind paying at all for something that requires little thought from me. interested in dbpoweramp following your recommendation. i assume this could mean i can delete foobar and eac? i guess i have nothing to lose by trialling it.
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Post by Mr Trev on Nov 1, 2021 15:10:50 GMT
How new is the van? It seems odd to me that it wouldn't play flac files. Just off the top of my head I would think the problem might be more due to tagging than the format. Possibly your flac have some unsupported tags or the embedded album art is too big or wrong format. I would try mp3tag and strip all but the most important tags and scale to artwork to 1000x or less. Its been ages since I last fired up EAC (my laptop doesn't even have an optical drive), but from what I remember it should write the tags to mp3 just as well as flac. I have a program called cuetools that can rip to both lossy & lossless, but again, no drive so I can't say how well it'd work. But it is free so it might be worth a download. If your looking at purchasing software for this purpose, I can't recommend dbpoweramp enough. It'll do almost anything you need with music files and it is fairly easy to use, plus it has a good support forum. PS. If you want, PM me an album of files & I can take a look at them for you and see if I can figure out what's tripping you up. Ultimately it should be faster to "fix" the flac if needed rather than have to rerip (of course you could just convert the flac to mp3 with foobar and see if that works) <edit> I forgot to add… you should use m4a instead of mp3. mp3 actually hasn't seen anything resembling an update in decades and m4a is being constantly improved (m4a isn't an Apple format either, it was created by the same guys that did mp3 (Fraunhofer Society) hi mate, thanks for the reply. the van is brand new but support literature is all but useless. it doesnt state supported files or max memory stick size. i did reformat an old usb stick and ripped just 1 flac file as a test but the head unit would not play it. i dont really understand tagging and tbh just want something really simple to use that has all necessary plugins already installed, i dont mind paying at all for something that requires little thought from me. interested in dbpoweramp following your recommendation. i assume this could mean i can delete foobar and eac? i guess i have nothing to lose by trialling it. Good call on giving dbpoweramp a try. You get a 3 week trial, so there's really nothing to lose if you don't like it. I was an EAC user until I found out about dbp. About 2 weeks in I purchased a license. I do still use other programs for additional tagging - musicbee is my main library handler, mp3tag & musicbrainz for more in depth tagging. I am pretty anal about having my files tagged "properly", but for just the basics dbp should suit you just fine.
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Post by oldson on Nov 1, 2021 20:33:24 GMT
i feel i should read up on tagging and get my head around it.
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Post by oldson on Nov 11, 2021 17:43:55 GMT
poweramp seems to work a treat for me, reckon I'll purchase a license. thanks for recommending.
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Post by Javier on Nov 16, 2021 7:37:11 GMT
Sorry for seeing this a bit late, Simon I can help you to setup EAC if you want. There is no reason why it should give you any trouble ripping to USB sticks. Which version are you using? on which Windows? Is your PC updated to latest everything?
Personally I only go use commercial software when there is no decent free alternatives and in case of CD ripping there are fantastic ones available namely EAC or CUETools. Newer versions of EAC allow for ripping to FLAC and MP3 at the same time (never tried it though). I'd rather rip to FLAC and keep a lossless copy of the CD in my PC and then use the very fast Batchconverter app to convert those to MP3 for the car.
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Post by oldson on Nov 20, 2021 18:00:23 GMT
Sorry for seeing this a bit late, Simon I can help you to setup EAC if you want. There is no reason why it should give you any trouble ripping to USB sticks. Which version are you using? on which Windows? Is your PC updated to latest everything? Personally I only go use commercial software when there is no decent free alternatives and in case of CD ripping there are fantastic ones available namely EAC or CUETools. Newer versions of EAC allow for ripping to FLAC and MP3 at the same time (never tried it though). I'd rather rip to FLAC and keep a lossless copy of the CD in my PC and then use the very fast Batchconverter app to convert those to MP3 for the car. Cheers not to worry mate, i have deleted eac at the moment but i did try their latest version. im using windows 10 64 at the moment and all updates are done. i am quite happy to use poweramp for the time being as, so far, i find it really simple to use.
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