13-02-2008
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I just wrote a guide on determining the write offset just the other day on another forum [not HA]. This guide is from a slightly different approach, and more fool proof, IMHO.
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Easy way to determine your Write Offset in EAC
This short guide makes the assumption that you have already correctly determined and set your drives READ offset, either by using the AccurateRip CD Drive Offset Page or by another approved method.
Using any commercial CD, rip all individual tracks [the entire CD] to WAV [F6] in EAC and make a non-compliant cue file [Actions > Create Cue > Mult WAVs with Gaps (Non-Compliant)].
When finished ripping, check that your current Write Samples Offset is set to ZERO [F10 > Writer tab].
Open EAC's CD-Writer [Alt+W] and load the non-compliant cue file you made above, and burn a copy of the CD.
When finished, close the CD-Writer module.
Select any single track from the CDR copy and rip to WAV [F6], being careful not to overwrite the files you made from the original disc [i.e. burn to a different folder]. Alternately, you can rip the entire disc.
Using the WAV compare tool [Ctrl+W], first open a WAV file from the rip of the original disc, then open the corresponding WAV file of the same track from the ripped CR-R. It is important that you open the original WAV first and the CDR WAV second.
The result tells you what your offset is. If the original WAV [left two columns] has missing samples OR if the CDR WAV [right two columns] has repeated or extraneous samples, then the offset is a positive number.
On the other hand, if the original WAV has repeated or extraneous samples OR if the CDR WAV has missing samples, the offset is a negative number. For example, if the original wav has 85 missing samples, then your offset is +85. If the original wave has 85 repeated samples, then your offset is -85.
In the first illustration shown below for my writer, the track 2 CDR WAV [info shown in right columns] shows missing samples, so my write offset is negative 30.
The second illustration is for track 1, and the Original WAV [info shown in left columns] shows repeated samples in that instance.
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