[U2Lynne]

The great thing about flac (or shn or ape) files is that you may simply drag and drop the files onto your computer. After you have them there, if you have an ffp or md5 file that came with the files, you can put it in TLH and 'verify' the files. If you don't have one, you can still verify that the flac files are fine but putting them in TLH and it will verify the files for you. With shn or ape, you would want to make an md5 of the files from the CD you are copying them from and then check that md5 against the files you had just drag/dropped onto your hard drive.

In short, flac/shn/ape files are data files and you do not need a program like EAC to extract them. EAC is used to extract the music from an audio CD into wav form.