EAC users, Help me

**Mr. Crowley** · June 25th, 2002, 03:20 PM

Ok. I had been using dBpowerAMP, and after reading great things about EAC on this board, I decided to try it out. First, I would like to say thanks. I have tried EAC, and think it really kicks ass. Now the problem. The first CD I ripped with EAC worked perfectly, but with the second I tried, I get a warning when trying to download info from freedb. When I select "Get CD information from remote freedb", I get the message "Warning, all data of the actual CD will be deleted". What's up with this?

**psychotronic420** · June 25th, 2002, 08:44 PM

Mr Crowley,
Here is my thought on the matter, it sounds like it might be some sort of copyright thing that the cddb has implemented on certain cds. did you see the article on the new eminem cd being one of the most requested on their servers even before it had hit the market?

It might not be but what I do is usually just manually input the cd information into the program before I rip, EAC is a great proggie.
You should also seek out another great proggie that will also let you use the lame codec it is called CDex it is located at
www.cdex.n3.net it has quite a few nice features the only thing it won't do like EAC is let you actually burn files to CD though.

Quote from their website:

What's CDex?
CDex can extract the data directly from an Audio CD, which is generally called an Audio CD Ripper or a CDDA utility. Of course you can do that also by recording through your sound-card However, recording by sampling the signal with your sound card implies that the signal is first has to be converted to an analog signal by the CD-ROM, which is fed into the sound-card and digitized by the sound-card. In practically all situation the quality of the recording will be deteriorated (unless you have a CD-ROM that has a digital output of course). CDex on the other hand, is reading the digital audio data directly from the disc, which can be stored in either a WAV file or a MPEG (MP2 or MP3) sound file.
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**goweropolis** · June 26th, 2002, 10:31 AM

Mr. Crowley,

The CD you're looking at probably already has info entered for it. EAC is just confirming that you want to download the album/song title info from freeDB, and erase the album/song title info you already have.

"Warning, all data of the actual CD will be deleted"

This is only referring to the song titles/album info that you see displayed. It will not damage the CD in any way.

Andy

**Mr. Crowley** · June 26th, 2002, 03:17 PM

Thanks for the responses. I remember now that I had earlier put the CD in while I was online, and WMP started up and must have downloaded the track listings. Although this info was not showing up in EAC, it was there. That is were the warning message was coming from. So, all is well, and EAC rocks! It does piss me off that WMP automatically starts and accesses the internet. That is bullshit. No program should access the internet without the user directing it to do so.

**Rickio** · June 26th, 2002, 08:04 PM

I might add, that EAC is probably the only freeware music cd buring application and not only is it free, it's better than most commercial apps.

There is a simple freeware music buring app at http://mp3surgeon.com called mp3 doctor, at least it was there a month ago when they celebrated their new website. I have not used it but it looks good for what it is.

Still EAC can much more than just burn a music cd, it has a wav editor and sound normaliser/deglitcher for when you download a mp3 and there are some glitches, you can remove them and of course it is the best cd music ripper around.