Author: Andre2

Go To Compression Options, and check if all compression options are correct. If you don’t want to compress your files, make sure that there is “Internal Wav Routines” selected.

That is because in secure mode EAC reads every sector at least twice. This is normal. Try setting the speed to maximum, for some Teac drives a firmware update will improve speed settings.

You can set this in the filename option. If you use the ‘\’ character, EAC will create all these subdirectories. For example %a\%n – %t
But you may not specify an absolute path like c:\%a\%n nor \%a\%t
For more information read the tooltip of this option.

The Peak Level of a song the maximum volume within the song. So 100% will have the maximum volume possible in a file. A file with Peak Level 50% will have only at its loudest point half of the maximum possible volume. So this is no quality information, it is useful for creating a CD mixed of tracks from different CDs and for normalizing.

When you get 99.7% and so on, that means that a bad sector was found, but the secure mode has corrected it – from 16 times of grabbing the sector, there were 8 or more identical results. So it only indicates read problems. It is the ratio between the number of minimum reads needed to perform the extraction and the number of reads that were actually performed. 100% will only occur when the CD was extracted without any rereads on errors. ONLY when there are suspicious positions reported, there are really uncorrectable read errors in the resulting audio file.

Some Toshiba drives have a firmware bug returning wrong data on special positions of every CD. As the error really occured, you should listen to these suspicious position allways and decide if the error is audible or not.

It could possible to revive them by copying them in burst mode to hard disk. The high readout speed keeps the optical system of the drive from following the scratches instead of the audio track. After copying check the copies out, perhaps there were still errors left.

In default configuration EAC uses the burst mode. I recommend to use the appropriate secure mode for your drive. To know what the appropriate read mode is, there is an automatic feature test in the drive options, just below the read mode switches.

No, burst mode has no error detection nor error correction. If burst mode brings up a timing problem, the read command needed a lot of time, which could have several reasons, like loosing sync or trying to fix an read error. Of course this is a really poor “error detection” and should not be taken as serious indication.

Have a look on the CD if it is dirty. Try to clean it (from the inner ring to the outer bound), perhaps it works better then. If not, try to lower speed or even to extract in burst mode, sometimes this will give better results (but no error reporting though).