Difference between revisions of "EAC and ALAC"

Latest revision as of 19:20, 23 March 2020

The following guide outlines the configuration of Exact Audio Copy to convert audio CDs to ALAC using FFmpeg.

Required software

• Exact Audio Copy
• FFMPEG

Installation

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

• copy ffmpeg.exe to a location which you have write access to

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 .m4a if not already that.
• Click the Browse button and locate the FFMPEG.exe that you unzipped earlier.
• Remove the ticks from Use CRC check and Add ID3 tag.
• Tick Check for external programs return code.
• If you are using EAC 1.0b2 or newer, then in the Additional command line options box, copy and paste the following string:

-i %source% -metadata "ARTIST=%artist%" -metadata "TITLE=%title%" -metadata "ALBUM=%albumtitle%" -metadata "DATE=%year%" -metadata "TRACK=%tracknr%/%numtracks%" -metadata "GENRE=%genre%" -metadata "ALBUM_ARTIST=%albumartist%" -metadata "COMPOSER=%composer%" -metadata "DISC=%cdnumber%/%totalcds%" -metadata "COMMENT=CRC:%TRACKCRC%" -acodec alac %dest%