Using CUE sheet from EAC with files ripped by dBpowerAMP?

[Wayne]

Re: Using CUE sheet from EAC with files ripped by dBpowerAMP?

I have a question. What happens if you use EAC to rip to separate tracks together with a CUE sheet and use the results to create a CD. Then rerip the resulting CD and comparing with the original, are they the same?

I think that you would have to rip as one, together with a CUE sheet, to end up with a duplicate CD.

[fjodor]

Re: Using CUE sheet from EAC with files ripped by dBpowerAMP?

Ok, thanks.

Is there anyone out there that has gotten this to work? I.e. to use EAC in combination with dBpowerAMP, where EAC takes care of the CUE-sheet part of the ripping (see top post)?

[LtData]

Re: Using CUE sheet from EAC with files ripped by dBpowerAMP?

I am not sure. I have heard other users suggest a similar strategy, but I don't know if it works or not.

[fjodor]

Re: Using CUE sheet from EAC with files ripped by dBpowerAMP?

Ok, thanks for the clarification.

Still, the question remains whether or not it's possible to use EAC for the CUE-sheet handling part of the ripping & burning (in order to overcome the lack of that feature in dBpowerAMP), as suggested in my original post?

[LtData]

Re: Using CUE sheet from EAC with files ripped by dBpowerAMP?

To clarify, dMC r11.5 does support a "Rip as One" feature if you have the PowerPack, but r12 does not have this feature.

[fjodor]

Re: Using CUE sheet from EAC with files ripped by dBpowerAMP?

Yes I know, that was why I suggested using EAC (Exact Audio Copy) to create the CUE-sheet (see step 1) and to burn the CD copy (see step 3), and only use dBpowerAMP for the audio extraction (see step 2). What I wondered was if this should be possible as an interim solution until dBpowerAMP R13 is released?

Also note that using CUE-sheets does not imply ripping the whole CD into one image. You can create CUE-sheets that are based on ripping one image per track as well, as I suggested in step 1 when I specified that the option "Multiple WAV Files With Gaps" should be used.

[LtData]

Re: Using CUE sheet from EAC with files ripped by dBpowerAMP?

dMC r12 doesn't support cue sheets nor ripping to one track. Those features are planned for r13, though.

[fjodor]

Hi,

I just wonder if it should be possible to do the following steps:

1. Create a CUE-sheet for a CD with EAC (using the mode "Multiple WAV Files With Gaps").
2. Rip the CD tracks with dBpowerAMP into ".wav" files (one file per track).
3. Use EAC burn a CD using the EAC CUE-sheet and the dBpowerAMP ".wav"-files to get an identical copy of the original CD.

The reason I'm asking is that when I tried this, and then afterwards used EAC to rip both the CD and the CD copy into ".wav"-images the contents differed.