[Flac] EAC + FLAC bitrate question?

[Nicholas Wilson]

On Saturday 14 October 12:53 am, Tim wrote:
> This is more of an EAC question, but I have not yet received an answer from
> my post on that page.  Since they are closely related I thought I would
> give it a try here.
>
> I just bought a BIG stack of CDs (70+) and decided to recheck all of my EAC
> (beta 4) + FLAC (1.1.2) settings prior to ripping and encoding them.  I
> also calibrated a new external Plextor CD-ROM too.
>
> The setting string I use in EAC's "External Compression" window is:
>
> -8 -V -T "artist=%a" -T "title=%t" -T "album=%g" -T "date=%y" -T
> "tracknumber=%n" -T "genre=%m" -T "comment=EAC Secure_Lossless FLAC " %s
>
> On that same "External Compression" page, I noticed the bitrate selection
> window directly beneath the compression setting string window.
>
> Does the FLAC string window entry cause the bitrate window to be ignored?
>
> I am desperately hoping that the over 1000 CDs I own and have already
> processed (myself) are not in 192kBit/s FLAC, that would really be very bad
> news.
>
> Thanks in advance for the help, and I apologize if you consider this off
> topic.  Looking forward to hearing good news and good music!

192kBit/s!  Bad news! If I had all of my small collection of 500 cds (mostly 
DG Mahler/Bruckner!) in flac at 192 kBit/s I would be overjoyed!

Nick