Required EAC Settings:
Menu Action:
Select: append gaps to previous track (default)
Required EAC Options:
Extraction tab:
Check: Fill up missing offset samples with silence
Check: Synchronize between tracks
Select: Error recovery quality - High
Rest: leave unchecked
General tab:
Check: on unknown CDs, select automatically access freedb database
Tools tab:
UN-Check: retrieve UPC/ISRC codes in CUE sheet generation
Check: Use CD-Text information in CUE sheet generation
Check: Create '.3mu' playlist on extraction
Check: Automatically write status report after extraction
UN-Check: Activate beginner mode, disable all advanced features
Normalize tab:
Do NOT use Normalize
Filename tab:
Naming Scheme = %N - %T
Required Drive Options:
Extraction Method tab:
Secure mode - NOT Paranoid, Synchronized or Burst mode!
Check: Drive has 'Accurate Stream' feature
Check: Drive caches audio data
Do Not Check: Drive is capable of retrieving C2 error information
Offset/Speed tab:
Select: Use read sample offset correction. Please test and check your offset!
Check: Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out (if EAC will generate [Sync Error] on last track - uncheck)
Check: Allow speed reduction during extraction
Ripping and creation of CUE sheet:
put in CD
ctrl-a (select all tracks)
F4 (detect gaps)
EAC, menu action, create CUE, multiple WAVs with gaps (noncompliant)
F6 (test and copy tracks)
then click "okay" and explicity create logfile
Don't forget to check the CRCs after each rip, because unlike other errors they do not generate a There were errors message (the log doesn't warn you).
DO NOT rip the CD to one large file in ANY format.
Download FLAC codec and frontend from: http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html
Required FLAC frontend Settings:
Level: 8
Check: Verify (only)
Do Not Check: Replaygain
Encode and make Fingerprint
I hope all this help you