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<li id="r2.1.5"><a href="#h2.1"><strong>↑_</strong></a> <a href="#r2.1.5">2.1.5.</a> <strong>Albums must not be ripped or uploaded as a single track.</strong> If the tracks on the original CD were separate, you must rip them to separate files. Clearly, CDs with single tracks are permitted to be uploaded without prior splitting. You are encouraged to use <a href="http://musicutter.szm.sk/">MusiCutter</a> or <a href="http://mpesch3.de1.cc/mp3dc.html">MP3DirectCut</a> for MP3 and <a href="http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=CueTools">CUE Tools</a>, <a href="http://tmkk.pv.land.to/xld/index_e.html">XLD</a>, or <a href="http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/">EAC</a> for lossless if you need to split up an album image into individual tracks. <u>Exceptions</u>: Gapless DJ or professional mixes released as MP3+CUE images are allowed as unseparated album images on the site. This includes scene DJ mixes. No other format is allowed in this unsplit form. Unsplit MP3 albums containing separate tracks are not allowed if missing a cue sheet.
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<li id="r2.2.15.1"><a href="#r2.2.15"><strong>↑_</strong></a> <a href="#r2.2.15.1">2.2.15.1.</a> <strong>All FLAC CD rips must come from official CD sources.</strong> Rips must be taken from commercially pressed or official-pressed CD sources. They may not come from CD-R copies of the same pressed CDs. Undetected errors may be introduced from the original CD rip and subsequent burning process to CD-R. Even though the CD-R is ripped with proper settings in <a href="http://tmkk.pv.land.to/xld/index_e.html">XLD</a> or <a href="http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/">EAC</a>, it may still be a sub-par rip with a good log. <u>Exceptions</u>: If the release is only distributed on CD-R, then that is acceptable. Promotions and small distributions of albums tend to be in CD-R format.
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<li id="r2.2.15.2"><a href="#r2.2.15"><strong>↑_</strong></a> <a href="#r2.2.15.2">2.2.15.2.</a> <strong>A FLAC torrent without a rip log can be trumped by a FLAC torrent of the same release containing a rip log.</strong> The FLAC torrent without a log will be trumped in favor of one containing a log. Please make sure your rip log has the extension .log in order to be displayed properly on the torrents page. <u>Exceptions</u>: If the FLAC torrent with a log contains excessive rip errors (e.g. suspicious positions, skips, or pops), it cannot replace the existing torrent. Audiochecker, auCDtect, and other MPEG analyzer logs do not count as rip logs, even if renamed with the .log extension. Soundboards and other exclusive lossless digitally-distributed files cannot be unofficially burned to CD-R and re-ripped in order to trump existing digital copies of the same quality and source.
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<li id="r2.2.15.5"><a href="#r2.2.15"><strong>↑_</strong></a> <a href="#r2.2.15.5">2.2.15.5.</a> <strong>Range rips of hidden tracks or range rips under strict conditions require manual score adjustment.</strong> The new logchecker cannot accurately score range-ripped hidden tracks appended to proper rip logs. If you have created a 100 rip with a hidden track, but the logchecker decreased your score for the hidden track, report the torrent. That way your score can be adjusted to reflect the proper settings. What.CD does not encourage ripping entire CDs as range rips. Instead, please rip CDs <a href="http://blowfish.be/eac/">to separate tracks according to the EAC Guide</a>. For those rare cases where you have created a CD image rip with matching CRCs for test and copy, and the tracks have a AccurateRip verification of 2 or more, then you may submit your torrent for manual adjustment. <em>Note: The CD Image rip must be split with <a href="http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=CueTools">CUE Tools</a>, <a href="http://tmkk.pv.land.to/xld/index_e.html">XLD</a>, or <a href="http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/">EAC</a>. No other splitter is acceptable for a score adjustment. You will not receive score adjustment for copy-only range rips approved with AccurateRip nor range rips done with test and copy only.</em>
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