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[blafarm]

Anyone care to express an opinion regarding which is the superior ripping to .wav application:

EAC in secure mode or MC9 in secure mode?

[xen-uno]

Accuracy is probably the same between the two.

For me, it comes down to speed (last time I made a head to head comparison, EAC was faster), external encoder options, and the ability to rip a range of tracks as one. Regarding the ext encoder options...EAC uses known wildcards to fill in tag info, and can pass them on to the encoder. MJ/MC appear to write tags after the encoder has terminated, and so cannot. So if MJ/MC doesn't understand the format (such as AAC or FLAC), it will not write the tags. Finally, I dig EAC's clean, single purpose interface.

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[blafarm]

Good stuff, thanks for the reply.

One last question; is there a difference in the depth of tag information available between freedb and yadb? I understand many of the advanced tag categories available in MC9 are for user input, but I was wondering if one database over another offered more info such composer, performers, lyrics etc and whether or not it was possible to automate the retrieval of those fields.

Thanks for you help.

[xen-uno]

FreeDB had a better hit rate at one time, but YADB has probably caught up by now. I use EAC/FreeDB (almost) exclusively for rips/encodes, and the hit rate has been nearly 100%. Submitting new entries thru EAC is torturous. YADB submissions are much easier as I remember. As far as depth is concerned, I really couldn't say. I use the standard tags and go no further.

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[blafarm]

Thanks for the info.

[Omni]

Accuracy is probably the same between the two.

For me, it comes down to speed (last time I made a head to head comparison, EAC was faster), external encoder options, and the ability to rip a range of tracks as one. Regarding the ext encoder options...EAC uses known wildcards to fill in tag info, and can pass them on to the encoder. MJ/MC appear to write tags after the encoder has terminated, and so cannot. So if MJ/MC doesn't understand the format (such as AAC or FLAC), it will not write the tags. Finally, I dig EAC's clean, single purpose interface.

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Isn't it illegal or something for a moderator to endorse the pseudo-competitor's product?  Hmmmmmmmmmmmm?

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