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Hi everyone

I've been having this odd problem with EAC on one computer (haven't noticed it anywhere else) .. from what I remember it just started one day, I don't recall having ever changed any of the settings, and no-one else uses this PC. I also haven't changed anything on the hardware side; it's always been the same HP 9100+ series burner.

What happens is that, when ripping a whole-disc WAV+CUE image, EAC drops index points seemingly at random throughout the cuesheet; the WAV files themselves are always fine. From what I remember, other programs I might've tried didn't do this.

An example-

INDEX 00 18:04:22
INDEX 01 19:14:37


In that particular case, the actual song starts at 19:14:37 on the WAV file- but EAC drops an index point at 18:04:22 (?!), which when burnt and played back, results in a lovely -1:08 .. -1:07 .. -1:06 .. -1:05 countoff while the last minute-or-so of the previous song is still playing.

I can get around this in many cases by downloading the .CUE files from the 'Net, but that doesn't help for homemade comps and other 'one-off' CDs. I've tried re-installing EAC at least once, and it didn't solve the problem.

Any ideas? Thanks

I've had EAC get overzealous once or twice, but never as regularly as you're mentioning. I think what you *might* be seeing is its index-point searching algorithm getting a little greedy (i.e. the "find gaps" concept). Do you have it on SECURE already? If so, change which mode you're using.

-D

This is a side note, but I've never understood why there's a need for 3 different gap detection methods. I've used the same software on the Mac with at least 4 or 5 different drives, and it has always been able to get the right gaps. Why should EAC need a different method for different drives?

As a side note, I've had EAC choke detecting the gap on certain CDs. It doesn't *seem* to be drive dependent, as it would do the same thing on the two different drives in my PC desktop. Again, my Mac program has no such problems.

Xenu wrote:I've had EAC get overzealous once or twice, but never as regularly as you're mentioning.

It appears to happen at random- I haven't found a pattern (yet). Pressed discs, CD-Rs.. I don't think that makes a difference either.

Do you have it on SECURE already?

Yup. I use it on Secure about 70% of the time, except when I need it to go fast, or when I'm ripping a really trashed disc- I find Burst works best in those cases (even if the results might not be as good). It does the same thing on Burst, from what I remember.

lukpac wrote:This is a side note, but I've never understood why there's a need for 3 different gap detection methods.

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I don't know either, but I'll play around with those. I had totally forgotten about them.

Just in case I never get it to work right again.. what's a good alternative to EAC?


Thanks!

I don't mean "Secure" for *extracting*...I mean for gap detection. IIRC, I think it's "Inaccurate," "Accurate" and "Secure."

Xenu wrote:I don't mean "Secure" for *extracting*...I mean for gap detection. IIRC, I think it's "Inaccurate," "Accurate" and "Secure."

My bad- sorry about that. I'll take a look.

(15 secs. later)

What do you know. It was on 'Inaccurate' of all things .

I'll run a couple discs thru it today after work and let you know how it works. Thanks!