May 9, 2009 at 17:21Using EAC with Wine
The EAC program is recognized by lovers of quality (lossless) sound as the best ripping program. Everyone loves to listen (and save) music to the collection “in quality”, and EAC is developed only for Windows (98 / ME / XP / Vista). Almost all Linux-based programs for creating disk rips are based on the Cdparanoia (libparanoia) library, which, although not completely out of date, is not very actively supported.
EAC can be launched in Wine, but it completely refuses to work with the drive (it simply does not see it). This short article will discuss how to eliminate this drawback.
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The first time you run EAC in Wine, you will see the following picture (drive is not defined, drive too):
In order to fix this, you must manually specify Wine your drive. Open the Run Program dialog (Alt + F2) and use the winecfg command to start the Wine configurator. Next, go to the "Disks" tab, select the drive (if it is not in the list, then click "Auto Detect ..."), click "Show additional" and select "CD-ROM" in the "Type" drop-down list:
Click "Apply" and “OK” in order to save the drive settings. We start EAC, open the menu EAC -> EAC Options ... (or just F9), go to the “Interface” tab, in the list of SCSI interfaces specify “Native Win32 interface for Win NT / 2000 / XP” and click “OK”:
We restart the program and see that the drive is defined:
To check, insert any AudioCD and wait until the EAC reads it:
The program has detected the disc and is ready to extract audio tracks.
EAC can be launched in Wine, but it completely refuses to work with the drive (it simply does not see it). This short article will discuss how to eliminate this drawback.
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The first time you run EAC in Wine, you will see the following picture (drive is not defined, drive too):
In order to fix this, you must manually specify Wine your drive. Open the Run Program dialog (Alt + F2) and use the winecfg command to start the Wine configurator. Next, go to the "Disks" tab, select the drive (if it is not in the list, then click "Auto Detect ..."), click "Show additional" and select "CD-ROM" in the "Type" drop-down list:
Click "Apply" and “OK” in order to save the drive settings. We start EAC, open the menu EAC -> EAC Options ... (or just F9), go to the “Interface” tab, in the list of SCSI interfaces specify “Native Win32 interface for Win NT / 2000 / XP” and click “OK”:
We restart the program and see that the drive is defined:
To check, insert any AudioCD and wait until the EAC reads it:
The program has detected the disc and is ready to extract audio tracks.