I recently installed EAC and LAME on my new 'puter. when i try to run the configuration wizard it keeps telling me that i need to insert the cd into the drive i'm trying to configure. there is one there but it doesn't seem to see it. the cd does play using winamp, musicmatch, and windows media player. any suggestions?

thank you in advance

Obvious question: Do you have more than one CD type drive? Make sure the name of the drive EAC is looking at matches the drive you have the CD in.

yeah i have two drives and it gives me the same error for both drives.

mkay. i've uninstalled and reinstalled my drives about a half dozen times now. i've tried several different cds even a brand new one with not a single scratch on it. and when i open EAC it tells me that there is no audio cd in the drive. i recently reformatted my computer, but it worked before and i have reinstalled everything. this is very frustrating.

EDIT: How can the CD play in every other program (ie: winamp, mediaplayer, musicmatch) but can not be read in EAC?! UGHH!

How can the CD play in every other program (ie: winamp, mediaplayer, musicmatch) but can not be read in EAC?

Because those other applications simply play the audio portion of the CD. They send an MMC command to the drive which is essentially the same as pressing "play" on a consumer CD player. The audio comes out the analog audio outputs from the CD drive and don't even get involved with the OS at all.

EAC on the other hand, wants to digitally rip the CD and needs lower-level access to the drive, using more complex commands. There's something preventing EAC from doing that. I don't know what, but that's where you need to start looking for the trouble. It could be as simple as a misconfigured EAC (try another ripper program and see if you get the same problem). Or it could be complicated, for instance, the drive might be running in 16-bit "compatibility mode" (check the "performance" tab of ControlPanel/System). Or maybe something in between, like it needs an ASPI driver before it'll work. Dunno.

I downloaded another ripper and it works fine, so the problem is with EAC. i had used the .reg file from Chris Myden so i thought that might be the problem. but i deleted the reg file and tried every drive read option in the settings for EAC to no avail. this whole thing worked a couple of days ago... thinking... thinking...

Butters, what OS are you running? WinXP and 2000 need an ASPI driver installed.. I recommend Adaptec's ASPI driver for 2000 and ForceASPI for WinXP.

I'm running XP Pro. Thanks for the tip, I'll try and run it tonight and let you know if it did the trick.

Went home for lunch and tried using the ForceASPI driver and it didn't work.

i installed the aspi 4.70 drivers and when i used my check it told me that the aspi was not properly installed. so i reinstalled the 4.6 version and the checker says everything is working right, but EAC still cant see the cd. arghhh...

amazing what a complete re-format can do.

damn i love EAC