EAC and WavPack

Software Needed

• Exact Audio Copy
• Wavpack 4.2

Installation

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

• Unzip Wavpack into the same directory that EAC is in.

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 check box in use external program for compression.
• Change Parameter Passing Scheme to User Defined Encoder.
• Change user file extension to .wv if not already that.
• Click the Browse button and locate the WAVPACK.EXE that you unzipped earlier.
• Remove the ticks from Use CRC check, Add ID3 tag and check for external programs return code.
• In the Addtional command line options box, copy and paste the string below.

No Tags:

-h %s %d

APEv2:

-w "Artist=%a" -w "Title=%t" -w "Album=%g" -w "Year=%y" -w "Track=%n" -w "Genre=%m" -h %s %d

Note: If a user wanted to change compression settings on Wavpack the green portion what you would substitute with the new preset.

• Do not worry what bit rate is shown in the bit rate drop down box, this will be ignored.

Wavpack configured with tagging support

Addtional Reading

• About Lossless
• WavPack
• Exact Audio Copy