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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: RE: EAC/Lame THE ANSWER !!!RE: EAC/Lame THE ANSWER !!!
From: Fred Maxwell <rockbox_at_anti-spam.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 18:09:47 -0500 Johan wrote: > Why using a closed source, Windows specific, program that may > have all kinds of 'hidden' features if there are really free > open source tools that can do the job equally well (maybe better)? Stop with the FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt). EAC is distributed free of charge and has no hidden spyware, etc. The guy who distributes it is one of the nicest, most decent people you'll meet. EAC has been widely used for years and it doesn't call home, store undocumented data, etc. It simply works better than anything else. There are no comparable open source tools of which I am aware. EAC is the only ripper I have found which actually goes to great lengths to assure that the rip is error-free before passing it on to the encoder. Show me an open-source, multi-platform program that has the following features (snagged from the EAC web page): Hidden sector synchronization (jitter correction) Read error and complete loss of sync detection and correction in secure modes, as far as possible Automatic Speed reduction on errors and fallback afterwards Output of time positions of all non-exact corrections and listen to these positions Glitch removal after extraction Small WAV editor with the following functionality: delete, trim, normalize, pad, glitch removal, pop detection, interpolation of ranges, noise reduction, fade in/out, undo (and more) Copy of ranges of music data, not only tracks Normalization of extracted audio Usage of the Windows Audio Compression Manager (ACM Codecs) for direct compression e.g. to MP3 waves Support of external MP3, VQF, RA and AAC encoders for automatic compression after extraction Compression offset support for exact compression/decompression Detection of pre-track gaps Detection of silence in pre-track gaps Automatic creation of CUE sheets including all gaps, indicies, track attributes, UPC and ISRC CD player functionality and prelistening to selected ranges Automatic detection of drive features, whether a drive has an accurate stream and/or does caching Sample Offsets for drives with no accurate streams, including the option of filling up missing samples with silence Option for synchronizing tracks for non-accurate stream drives Filename editing with local and remote CDDB database and cdplayer.ini support and more features like ID3 tagging Browse and edit local database Certified Escient R CDDB(TM) Compatible Local CDDB support Record and Loop Record functions for recording from LP, radio, etc. Automatic rename of MP3 files according to their ID3 tag CD-Write support for some drives ID3 Tag editor with drag and drop possibility from track listing and database > E.g. cdda2wav from cdrtools Not even close. It's error detection and correction are, for all intents and purposes, non-existent. It doesn't automatically invoke the MP3 encoder. It does not do Freedb title lookups. It doesn't correct for read offsets. Again, find me one that has all (or almost all) of the features shown above and I'll be happy to give it a try. Regards, Fred Maxwell Received on 2003-12-20 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |