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.
- Download the latest version of CLI QuickTime AAC/ALAC encoder
- Uncompress the zip archive into a directory (e.g. C:\qaac). Alternatively you can uncompress refalac.exe for 32-bit or refalac64.exe for 64-bit into the EAC program directory.
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 the code 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.