command line options for EAC - Page 4 - Digital-Inn

oudalrich · 24-03-2004

Quote:

Usually nobody will use a changer system for this, so probably there is a CD in each drive. Why not selecting all drives before starting the script, so freedb naming is performed (and probably the right entry selected). Afterwards, there is nothing that can happen to stop the extraction (of course, if there is no CD in a drive, EAC will not close without extraction!)

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by 'selecting all drives'. Are you referring to the AutoIt script?

16-07-2004

This is an autoplay handler to invoke EAC to rip to .mp3. It assumes that EAC is installed as C:\Program Files\EAC\eac.exe.
Run notepad, paste in this code and save as EAC.reg. Double-click on the EAC.reg file to install. Then under Drive properties, select EAC as the action to perform for "Music CD"s.

Code:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\EAC.RipCD\Shell\Rip\Command]
@=hex(2):22,25,50,72,6f,67,72,61,6d,46,69,6c,65,73,25,5c,45,41,43,5c,65,61,63,\
2e,65,78,65,22,20,2d,65,78,74,72,61,63,74,6d,70,33,20,2d,63,6c,6f,73,65,00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\AutoplayHandlers\EventHandlers\PlayCDAudioOnArrival]
"EACRipCDAudioOnArrival"=""

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\AutoplayHandlers\Handlers\EACRipCDAudioOnArrival]
"Action"="Rip audio CD to MP3"
"Provider"="Exact Audio Copy"
"InvokeProgID"="EAC.RipCD"
"InvokeVerb"="Rip"
"DefaultIcon"="%ProgramFiles%\\EAC\\eac.exe,0"

stewaw00 · 03-08-2004

I've been lucky enough to aquire a Plasmon jukebox with 150 slots and 4 Plextor SCSI cdrom's.

From what I've read sofar in this thread I've got a smile on my face. Having multiple EAC's monitoring the drives and automagically starting compression is possible.

However I guess I would have to write some sort of manager application to manage discs being fed to the drives. Rather than talk to the jukebox directly I've been experimenting with the Removable Storage Manager API (win2k/xp). This seems easy enough, plenty of examples on MSDN and I've managed to put together a bit of C to move discs in and out of drives.

The only missing link stopping me from having a ripping monster is having EAC tell me that its finished with a particular drive letter, so I can stow the CD that is in it away and feed it a new CD to rip.

Andre, any chance of adding an option to EAC to run an optional executable (with optional parameters) when the ripping is finished?

Wullie

Andre Wiethoff · 03-08-2004

There already are:
In Extraction Options (registry) there are 4 keys:
StartAfterCompression
StartAfterExtraction
StartAfterCompressionParam
StartAfterExtractionParam

But the other way round : Why not use -close and wait until EACs process is killed? (Just start a program and wait until its completion)

cu, Andre

stewaw00 · 04-08-2004

Maybey next time I should read the docs

Agreed, starting EAC with the drive option and monitoring the PID is a smarter way to do this.

I think I know what I'm going to be doing in my evenings over the next week or two

Cheers

Wullie

PatLogan · 22-08-2004

hello and thank you for this post, very interesting...

to be sure I understood you well :

I wan't to automize the extraction from several virtual cds
I look for a way to create an image (wave file) and a cue sheet (equivalent of Alt + F7) command on EAC.

there aren't any command-line option to do that with and the way is to use AutoIt.

Am I right ?

Thanks for your answer.

Pat

phoenix42 · 27-08-2004

stewaw00, how do you intend to insure that you have correct ID3 tag info?
Granted most of the time FreeDB is going to be right, but some of the time it is going typos, lack year & genre, have "The" in the wrong place and very rarely grab a completly different CD.
For me this would mean that all the tags would have to be checked, which does somewhat defeat the purpose - granted there is still a time saving.

I'm looking for some perfect method when the ID3 data would be spot on every time so that it never has to be checked, but I don't think this is possible....yet.

PS I think the automatic CD ripping idea is great, I'm working on something similar but different - but the perfect tag data is still dogging me.

monkeyboy · 28-03-2006

first of all, i love EAC. without it, i dont know what i would do. I have a few suggestions which i think would be very helpful:

for the command line options:

could you make the "-drive" function work for a drive letter rather than a drive number? for example:
(eac.exe -drive f) rather than (eac.exe -drive 2)

could you make a "-extractimg" option to extract the full disc image like if you click the "image" icon?

also, it would be nice if the disc image were automatically ripped into the same folder (for example: c:\music\artist\album\image.wav) as the mp3 files are, instead of prompting for a filename each time.

thanks a lot! EAC is the best program i know for ripping audio. fast and accurate every time!

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03-08-2004	#48
stewaw00 Registered User Board-Frischling Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: UK Posts: 2 Abgegebene Danke: 0 Erhielt 0 Danke für 0 Beiträge	I've been lucky enough to aquire a Plasmon jukebox with 150 slots and 4 Plextor SCSI cdrom's. From what I've read sofar in this thread I've got a smile on my face. Having multiple EAC's monitoring the drives and automagically starting compression is possible. However I guess I would have to write some sort of manager application to manage discs being fed to the drives. Rather than talk to the jukebox directly I've been experimenting with the Removable Storage Manager API (win2k/xp). This seems easy enough, plenty of examples on MSDN and I've managed to put together a bit of C to move discs in and out of drives. The only missing link stopping me from having a ripping monster is having EAC tell me that its finished with a particular drive letter, so I can stow the CD that is in it away and feed it a new CD to rip. Andre, any chance of adding an option to EAC to run an optional executable (with optional parameters) when the ripping is finished? Wullie

03-08-2004	#49
Andre Wiethoff E.A.C. Coder Senior Member (Board-Inventar) Join Date: Sep 2000 Posts: 2.523 Abgegebene Danke: 0 Erhielt 12 Danke für 6 Beiträge	There already are: In Extraction Options (registry) there are 4 keys: StartAfterCompression StartAfterExtraction StartAfterCompressionParam StartAfterExtractionParam But the other way round : Why not use -close and wait until EACs process is killed? (Just start a program and wait until its completion) cu, Andre

04-08-2004	#50
stewaw00 Registered User Board-Frischling Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: UK Posts: 2 Abgegebene Danke: 0 Erhielt 0 Danke für 0 Beiträge	Maybey next time I should read the docs Agreed, starting EAC with the drive option and monitoring the PID is a smarter way to do this. I think I know what I'm going to be doing in my evenings over the next week or two Cheers Wullie

22-08-2004	#51
PatLogan Registered User Grünschnabel Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Paris Posts: 10 Abgegebene Danke: 0 Erhielt 0 Danke für 0 Beiträge	hello and thank you for this post, very interesting... to be sure I understood you well : I wan't to automize the extraction from several virtual cds I look for a way to create an image (wave file) and a cue sheet (equivalent of Alt + F7) command on EAC. there aren't any command-line option to do that with and the way is to use AutoIt. Am I right ? Thanks for your answer. Pat

27-08-2004	#52
phoenix42 Registered User Board-Frischling Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: 01460 Posts: 6 Abgegebene Danke: 0 Erhielt 0 Danke für 0 Beiträge	stewaw00, how do you intend to insure that you have correct ID3 tag info? Granted most of the time FreeDB is going to be right, but some of the time it is going typos, lack year & genre, have "The" in the wrong place and very rarely grab a completly different CD. For me this would mean that all the tags would have to be checked, which does somewhat defeat the purpose - granted there is still a time saving. I'm looking for some perfect method when the ID3 data would be spot on every time so that it never has to be checked, but I don't think this is possible....yet. PS I think the automatic CD ripping idea is great, I'm working on something similar but different - but the perfect tag data is still dogging me.

28-03-2006	#53
monkeyboy Registered User Board-Frischling Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: _ Posts: 2 Abgegebene Danke: 0 Erhielt 0 Danke für 0 Beiträge	first of all, i love EAC. without it, i dont know what i would do. I have a few suggestions which i think would be very helpful: for the command line options: could you make the "-drive" function work for a drive letter rather than a drive number? for example: (eac.exe -drive f) rather than (eac.exe -drive 2) could you make a "-extractimg" option to extract the full disc image like if you click the "image" icon? also, it would be nice if the disc image were automatically ripped into the same folder (for example: c:\music\artist\album\image.wav) as the mp3 files are, instead of prompting for a filename each time. thanks a lot! EAC is the best program i know for ripping audio. fast and accurate every time!

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