Comments on: The New King of Bit-Perfect CD Audio Extraction? http://carltonbale.com/the-new-king-of-bit-perfect-cd-audio-extraction My personal take on tech Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:23:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Carlton Bale http://carltonbale.com/the-new-king-of-bit-perfect-cd-audio-extraction/comment-page-1#comment-2820 Carlton Bale Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:16:29 +0000 http://www.carltonbale.com/blog/2007/02/the-new-king-of-bit-perfect-cd-audio-extraction/#comment-2820 You're right about the results being identical if there are no read errors with the CD. That said, I've had read errors on CDs that were new-out-of-the-box. I really like EAC, but it should be easier to use / configure than it is and I think the freedb they use for album matadata leave much to be desired -- I'm glad dB Music Converter has gotten away from using it. GraceNote promises to give free access to free procudts such as EAC, but it's my experience that they never acknowledge requests; perhaps this will change. You're right about the results being identical if there are no read errors with the CD. That said, I've had read errors on CDs that were new-out-of-the-box. I really like EAC, but it should be easier to use / configure than it is and I think the freedb they use for album matadata leave much to be desired — I'm glad dB Music Converter has gotten away from using it. GraceNote promises to give free access to free procudts such as EAC, but it's my experience that they never acknowledge requests; perhaps this will change.

]]> By: Steve Nash http://carltonbale.com/the-new-king-of-bit-perfect-cd-audio-extraction/comment-page-1#comment-2814 Steve Nash Mon, 19 Feb 2007 14:20:34 +0000 http://www.carltonbale.com/blog/2007/02/the-new-king-of-bit-perfect-cd-audio-extraction/#comment-2814 Carlton, It is blasphemy to ask EAC to step down from its throne. It is even worse to try to get me to spend money :) That said, I perused the article and from what I see, it is the error correction path that has improved, a clean CD will be identical using either EAC or dBpoweramp. I had thought the No Errors in EAC meant, well, no errors. I guess I'll check this puppy out. I'm not that interested in album covers since I have a b/w Ipod but in the long run it might be nice. Thanks for the info. Carlton,

It is blasphemy to ask EAC to step down from its throne. It is even worse to try to get me to spend money :)

That said, I perused the article and from what I see, it is the error correction path that has improved, a clean CD will be identical using either EAC or dBpoweramp.

I had thought the No Errors in EAC meant, well, no errors. I guess I'll check this puppy out. I'm not that interested in album covers since I have a b/w Ipod but in the long run it might be nice.

Thanks for the info.

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