EAC and FLAC

Software Needed

• Exact Audio Copy
• Flac 1.1.2

Installation

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

• Install Flac using the Flac installer

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.

External Compression

• Change the Parameter Passing Scheme to User Defined Encoder.
• Change the user file extension to .flac if not already that.
• Click the Browse button and locate the FLAC.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 below string.

-T "artist=%a" -T "title=%t" -T "album=%g" -T "date=%y" -T "tracknumber=%n" -T "genre=%m" -5 %s

Note: The italic -5 in the above comandline is where you would change the compression level or add settings for the FLAC encoder

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

FLAC configured with tagging support

Addtional Reading

• FLAC
• Exact_Audio_Copy