EAC and ALAC (refalac)

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Software Needed

Installation

Note: This guide assumes that EAC has been configured for secure ripping, if not please follow this guide.

Configuration

  • Open EAC and insert a CD into the drive.
  • Click the EAC menu and select Compression Options.
  • Click the External Compression Tab, and put a tick in the box for use external program for compression.
  • Change Parameter Passing Scheme to User Defined Encoder.
  • Change Use file extension to .m4a if not already that.
  • Click the Browse button and locate the refalac.exe or refalac64.exe that you unzipped earlier.
  • Remove the ticks from Use CRC check and Add ID3 tag.
  • Tick Check for external programs return code.
  • If you are using EAC 1.0b2 or newer, then in the Additional command line options box, copy and paste the following string:
--title "%title%" --artist "%artist%" --band "%albumartist%" --album "%albumtitle%" --genre "%genre%" --date "%year%" --track "%tracknr%/%numtracks%" %source% -o %dest% 
  • Note: Remember that you cannot change the compression level for ALAC.
  • refalac and refalac64 share much of codes and functionalities with QAAC and work very similar to QAAC -A.
  • Unlike QAAC, refalac and refalac64 DO NOT require Apple Application Support components.
  • Unlike QAAC, refalac and refalac64 DO NOT require a codec specifier option such as -A.

refalac's command line usage