EAC and Opus

Exact Audio Copy guides

Configuration
EAC configuration EAC Options EAC Drive Options EAC Compression Options EAC Metadata Options EAC WAV Editor Options EAC Configuration Wizard
Compression
EAC and AAC (neroAac)‎ EAC and AAC (qaac)‎ EAC and ALAC (FFmpeg)‎ EAC and ALAC (qaac)‎ EAC and ALAC (refalac)‎‎‎ EAC and FLAC EAC and LAME EAC and LossyWAV EAC and Monkey's Audio EAC and Musepack EAC and Ogg Vorbis EAC and Opus EAC and TAK EAC and WavPack
Other
EAC Gap Settings EAC and Cue Sheets EAC Lossless Backup

Software Needed

• Exact Audio Copy
• opusenc (included in opus-tools for Windows)
  • RareWares Opus page
  • opus-codec Downloads

Installation

Note: This guide assumes that EAC is has been configured for secure ripping, if not please follow the EAC_Drive_Configuration guide.

• Unzip opusenc.exe into a folder (e.g. C:\opus-tools\) or into the same directory that EAC is in.

Configuration

• Open EAC and insert a CD into the drive.
• Click the EAC menu and select Compression Options.
• Click the External Compression Tab, and put a tick in the box for use external program for compression.
• Change Parameter Passing Scheme to User Defined Encoder.
• Change Use file extension to .opus if not already that.
• Click the Browse button and locate the opusenc.exe that you unzipped earlier.
• Remove the ticks from Use CRC check and Add ID3 tag.
• Tick Check for external programs return code.

Notice:

This guide assumes you are using at least EAC 1.0 beta 2 or later. If you are using an older version you will need change EAC placeholders.

• %source% was %s in the older versions
• %dest% was %d in the older versions
• %artist% was %a in the older versions

See the full list of changes in EAC_placeholders

• In the Additional command line options box, copy and paste one of the below strings:

No Tags:

%source% %dest%

With Metadata Tags:

--artist "%artist%" --title "%title%" --album "%albumtitle%" --date "%year%" --genre "%genre%" --tracknumber %tracknr1% --comment "COMMENT=%comment%" %hascover%--picture "%coverfile%"%hascover% %source% %dest%

The examples above demonstrate the simplest usage. For additional encoding options, see the Forum or the opusenc command-line usage man-page.

• Unless you are using the %bitrate% placeholder within the Additional command line options box, the Bit rate shown in the 'Bit rate' drop down box is ignored.
• Unless you are using the %ishigh%…%ishigh% and/or the %islow%…%islow% placeholder(s) within the Additional command line options box, the High quality and/or Low quality setting(s) are ignored.

Opus configured with tagging

See also

• Exact Audio Copy