Tye:
Few thoughts:
1) the current version of cdwave can actually save split tracks as flac files -- I've had great success with this.
2) with cdwave you should always put a track split at the very beginning and very end of each wav (and discard the parts before the first split and after the last split). If you have the first track start at the very beginning of the pre-split wave and/or have the last track continue to the very end of the pre-split wav, both/either of these files will likely contain sector boundary errors.
3) If you do use the flac frontend to creat flacs (from waves) and use the fix sector boundary error feature (which I understand works fine on the current version of the flac frontend), be SURE that the flac frontend lists the tracks in the proper order (d1t1, d1t2, etc.) before flac compressing. Mine always seems to put the last track first. If left out of order, say with the last track first, if the first track on the list has a sbe, the sbe fixing program will pull data from last track to the next track on the list, etc. and weirdness could occurr.
4) I personally make md5s for the flacs I create, especially if the flacs are being torrented/seeded/etc. My reasoning, far easier to run a md5 check to be sure everything's kosher than to compare flac fingerprints and/or test the flac set and need to look at each flac test's result to confirm that all's OK.
5) EAC can also be configured to save directly to flac. I'm using this (and the free db file naming feature) to rip all of my commercial cds to my hard drive for instant access/spdif playback to my strda5000es once my squeezebox (
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