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So, I've been lurking around www.hydrogenaudio.org, but I'm yet to find the answer to my questions... and for some reason, even though I'm registered there, I'm disallowed from posting a question in the lossless audio forum (Do I need to donate $$ first or something?? I don't understand. Mind you, I'm entirely happy to do so... It's just unclear what I need to do in order to post and ask questions there.)
Anyway, over the past 2-3 weeks, I'ved wrestled with picking a lossless codec (FLAC vs. Wavpack) to back-up my CD collection... Bryant's done such great work, I've decided to go with Wavepack.
Q1: Is this a mistake? Or is FLAC really better in some way I can't figure out. Talk to me about Monkey Audio too... Although, personally I think FLAC and Wavpack have more promise.
Q2: Is there AN EASY WAY to embed a CUE sheet automatically with EAC using wavpack as an external encoder (perhaps within the command line... I've tried a bunch of times and can't get it to work)? I've had only limited sucess using the CUESHEET switch if I scan the WHOLE disc in at one time... I don't like to do this, since I can't see if the checksums of individually scanned tracks match up... Also, Foobar misreads track #'s and song titles (every song is taged as "Track 1" and given the first track's name... even if it's really the 11 or 12 track). If someone knows of a straight-forward way to scan/embed CUE Sheets, please give me very direct STEP-BY-STEP instructions. I hate to have to resort to a batch file. Or, having to manually edit tags with Foobar or some front-end application. At present my EAC command line is:
-hx2m -w "Track=%n" -w "Title=%t" -w "Artist=%a" -w "Album=%g" -w "Date=%y" -w "Genre=%m" -w "Comment=Exact Audio Copy & WavPack 4.2" %s %d
Q3: Do you have a better EAC/Wavpack command line for me? If yes, please provide it and tell me why you think it's better.... even if it's just a minor improvement... before I encode +800 albums.
Q4: Is having an embedded cue sheet REALLY worth it? Or, is it not worth worrying about?? Maybe if I just keep a copy of the cue sheet in the same "D:\Artist(Year)Album" directory that will be sufficent
if I ever need to recreate.
Note: In EAC, I always "F4/Dectect Gaps" and "Action--> Create CUE Sheet --> Multiple wav files with gaps (non-compliant)" as soon as I put my CD in... then I "Ctrl-A (select All) --> right-click --> test and copy selected tracks --> compress"
Q5: On a seperate topic, is there anyway to Regainplay my albums without going Foobar-->Playlist-->Add directory... then selecting all tracks... then right-click Regainplay --> Scan selection as album.
Sorry for all the questions... I may know a bit about DVD, but I'm clueless when it comes to lossless audio despite the research I've down to date. Maybe our local AD audiophile can help me out!?! :-)
It just seems to me that all this should be easier... Or am I daft? :-)
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