User:Fog Watch/eac

Exact Audio Copy is used for ripping CDs. It is secure software and worth the trouble of installing under. While Rubyripper is a good unix alternative, it does not yet facilitate access to AccurateRip.

Introduction
This describes how to install Exact Audio Copy under. It is assumed that drives are accessed via libata.

Install Wine
Install stable. Unstable is not required.

Configure drives
The owner of the writer device, such as, needs to be changed to the user of. Also, make sure there is a writer entry in. [asdf]

Configure wine
should be.

Under establish a letter as the writer device.

Configure EAC
and

Under and  select  and, hopefully it is not greyed out. Restart. After which, hopefully you won't get any startup errors such as err:aspi:SCSI_OpenDevice Failed to open device /dev/hda: Permission denied.

AccurateRip
AccurateRip makes is possible to compare your rip with those of others. Under EAC it works like this.

If your internet connection runs through a proxy then those details need to be entered. Under, , and  check  and complete your details.

freedb
freedb is needed if you want to grab the details of your CD off the net, rather than type them in. Proxy details are entered in, and check.

Other details
The rest of the setup details under, and should also be checked. A guide for this is here.

use accuraterip with this drive is greyed out
Under the asdf/asdf tab use accuraterip with this drive is greyed out. This may because a proxy needs to be entered. This can be done under database  advanced. . [asdf]