Originally Posted by RLG
I don't use that feature because it slows down the ripping process while it does the computation intensive compression. I prefer to have it do the part which requires manual intervention (inserting & removing CD's) quickly, then run the other part overnite when I'm sleeping.
I do exactly the same thing. Take a stack of CDs, copy them to WAV with EAC (which also does lots of error correction and the like in case a CD happens to have a scratch, as some of my 16 year old CDs now unfortunatley do), and then run a batch file to bulk encode them overnight.