Perfectly Rip Audio CDs to FLAC (works under windows and ubuntu/wine)

What we want:

• Perfect quality: EAC is hands-down the best audio ripper, flac is lossless.
• Correct tags: get them from freedb and correct errors / inconsistencies by hand (!)
• Add cover art

Programs used:

• EAC:
  • Install EAC (0.99, i had problems with 1.0beta under ubuntu 10.04)
  • configure you cd drive using the wizard
  • download and configure the flac compressor in eac
• mp3tag: Download and install

Procedure: Use EAC and mp3tag in parallel

• EAC:
  • Insert CD in drive
  • ALT-G yes → Get mp3 tags from freedba
  • SHIFT-F5 → Rips and compress to directory incoming
• mp3tag
  • Check tags: ctrl-a and check/correct
    • CD title (with number for classic cds) (e.g. Weihnachtsoratorium (CD1)
    • CD Number
    • Artist (Harnoncour, Schäfer, Fink, Güra, …), Cover artist (Harnoncourt, Nikolaus), Composer (Bach, Johann Sebastian)
    • CTRL-S → Save
  • Tag sources - Cover art - Amazon to get cover art
  • ALT-1: Write corrected tags and cover art to files: %album% - CD%discnumber%.$num(%track%,2) - %title%

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