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EAC Ripping Guide - Check the Log File

Read mode : Secure


Utilize accurate stream : Yes or No
Defeat audio cache : Yes or No
Make use of C2 pointers : No

Note: if a rip was made using burst mode, the first section will only have one line saying:
Read mode : Burst

Read offset correction : The right value for your drive (see CD Drive Offsets).
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : almost always No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native or installed external interface
Gap handling : Appended to previous track

(If you ripped to wave (= uncompressed) in order to encode the files later, the log should say:
Used output format : Internal WAV Routines
Sample format : 44.100 Hz; 16 Bit; Stereo)

Used output format : User Defined Encoder


Selected bitrate : Irrelevant
Quality : Irrelevant
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor: Correct path to the external encoder

For each track:

- Check that the pre-gap lengths look reasonable.

- Peak level is irrelevant for rip quality (it just tells how loudly the track is mixed).

- Track quality is irrelevant for rip quality as long as the rip was completed without errors.
(It shows the condition of the CD track. 100% track quality shows that EAC did not have to
perform any error correction, lower track quality indicate that EAC corrected some error(s).)

- There should be two CRC values for each track (test and copy), and the two values should
match.

- It should ideally say "Accurately ripped (confidence [number of rips in the database that matches
your rip])", but may not do so if your CD is not present in the database, or if your CD is a different
pressing than those present in the database.

- The track info should end with the words "Copy OK".

After the individual track information, the log should ideally say [total number of] track(s)
accurately ripped.

The next but last line in the log should say "No errors occurred".

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