
To have EAC tag your files, tick Add ID3 tag and in the Additional command line options box, copy and paste the following string: With EAC V1.0 beta 3 if you get a message: "Invalid replacement tag found !" try replacingĮach occurence of "%" with "%%" since you need to use double percent so one can be escaped and allow the second one to be passed to Lame. Note: Always use the Button to check your Command Line string.
For specifics see the LAME usage instructions. %source% means source filename and %dest% means destination filename. The %source% (formerly %s) and %dest% (formerly %d) in the examples following this section are placeholders for EAC. The green portion in the examples following this section is where you configure the LAME preset. It's a good idea to tick Check for external programs return code.Ĭonfiguring the Additional command line options. Don't worry about the Use CRC check setting it won't affect the resultant MP3 file either. Don't worry which bit rate is shown in the Bit rate drop-down box, as this will not have any effect on the resultant MP3 file unless the %bitrate% placeholder is used (see end of the Advanced Command Line Usage section). Note: If you want to tag with APEv2 tags using Wapet please locate wapet.exe, not lame.exe. Click the Browse button and locate the lame.exe that you unzipped into the EAC directory earlier.
Change Parameter passing scheme to User Defined Encoder (see this thread for reasoning).Click the External Compression Tab, and put a check box in Use external program for compression.Click the EAC menu and select Compression Options.Open EAC and insert a CD into the drive.
If you would like to tag with APEv2 tags please download wapet.zip and unzip it into the same folder.
Unzip the chosen LAME version into the same directory as EAC. Note: This guide assumes that EAC has been configured for secure ripping, if not please follow this guide. In addition, non-standard genres are now handled more elegantly. vbr-new is now the default setting and is no longer explicitly required. Note: This guide has now been amended to reflect changes made to LAME as of 3.98. See the full list in the EAC Placeholders page, the EAC Compression Options guide or in the original EAC FAQ. 5 Configuring the Additional command line optionsįrom EAC 1.0 beta 2, the replacement strings changed.