EAC and TAK

Software Needed

Installation

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

Extract takc.exe into a folder of your choice.
Extract wapet.exe into your Exact Audio Copy directory.

Configuration

Open EAC and insert a CD into the drive.
Click the EAC menu and select Compression Options... (or press F5).
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 Use file extension to .tak.
Click the Browse button and locate wapet.exe.
Remove the ticks from Use CRC check, Add ID3 tag and Check for external programs return code.
In the Additional command line options box, copy and paste the string below.

APEv2 Tag:

%d -t "Artist=%a" -t "Title=%t" -t "Album=%g" -t "Year=%y" -t "Track=%n" -t "Genre=%m" "C:\Program Files\TAK\takc.exe" -e -pN %s %d

Note 1: This needs to point to where takc.exe is located. If the path contains spaces, you must surround it with double quotes (").

Note 2: Alter this switch for the desired compression mode

Switch	Setting
-pT	Turbo
-pF	Fast
-pN	Normal (default, if no -p switch is specified Normal will be used)
-pH	High
-pE	Extra

Taken from the TAK command line summary:

-p#        select encoder preset #
             T/F/N/H/E or 0-4 for Turbo/Fast/Normal(default)/High/Extra
             Append E/M (-p2m) to increase the evaluation level to Extra/Max.

EAC External Compression dialogue configured for TAK with tagging support provided by Wapet

Don't worry what bit rate is shown in the Bit rate drop down box, this will be ignored.

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