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New EAC and LAME help

Hi. The new eac beta1.0 came out and i configured it to work with lame. I'm not new to eac so i know how to set it up. But with this new eac, every time i rip a CD, the DOS decoding screen never pops up anymore and every time it's done, it always say "there were errors" no matter what. I tried different settings and nothing is working. And i cannot get Accurip to work at all. Please help! TIA

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Reply #1 –
Go to main menu EAC > EAC Options... > Tools and make sure "Do not open external compressor window" is not checked.

Download one of the 3.98.4 LAME bundles from this page and unzip it into an appropriate folder.

Post back with your exact settings from the EAC > Compression Options... > External Compression tab.

While you're there, press the "Browse" button and navigate to the LAME.EXE you just downloaded.  Do this before posting your settings from this page.

Someone will help...

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Reply #2 –
I got the DOS screen to pop now. Thanks for the help. For my compression settings:

Use external program for compression is CHECKED
Parameter is LAME MP3 Encoder
It's pointing to the correct LAME.exe bundle within the program (C:\Program Files (x86)\Exact Audio Copy\lame.exe)
Additional Command Line Options are "-V 0 --vbr-new"
bit rate is "variable bitrate 192
Delete WAV after compression is CHECKED
Use CRC check is CHECKED
Add ID3 Tag is CHECKED
Check for external programs return code is UNCHECKED

Still says i have errors after distraction with the quality being at 99.9% on each track (?) No accurip either. I have it checked off in Drive Options > Offset/Speed

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Reply #4 –
I followed that site and CHECKED external return code and UNCHECKED the CRC.

I now got a warning window:
WARNING
The external compressor returned an error!

Options : -h -v -b 192 LAME.exe -V0 %s %d "Dtmp54266.wav"
"Dtmp54266.mp3"

File : L:\Music EAC\DMX - No Sunshine - DMX - No Sunshine.wav


Any ideas? Why "192"? I thought that drop down box under Compression Options > External Compression had no effect on the Aditional commnad-line options??? It never did before EAC 1.0. I'm using the same drive and settings as all the older EAC's and they worked with ACCURIP and no errors. Why is this one so different and not liking my computer or options?? All the info i can find on LAME & EAC doesn't seem to apply to this new version. :-(  And still no ACCURIP. Please Help!

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Reply #5 –
Quote from: hardtymz2517 on
Options : -h -v -b 192 LAME.exe -V0 %s %d

That commandline looks strange.  Just set it up like below to get things going.  You can get fancy with options once it works.


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Reply #6 –
Quote from: hardtymz2517 on
I now got a warning window:
WARNING
The external compressor returned an error!

Options : -h -v -b 192 LAME.exe -V0 %s %d "Dtmp54266.wav"
[. . .]
Any ideas? Why "192"? I thought that drop down box under Compression Options > External Compression had no effect on the Aditional commnad-line options??? It never did before EAC 1.0. I'm using the same drive and settings as all the older EAC's and they worked with ACCURIP and no errors. Why is this one so different and not liking my computer or options?? All the info i can find on LAME & EAC doesn't seem to apply to this new version. :-(  And still no ACCURIP. Please Help!


Here is your problem:
Quote from: hardtymz2517 on
Use external program for compression is CHECKED
Parameter is LAME MP3 Encoder
You should use User Defined Encoder.

Presumably it is EAC using the wrong setting that is adding all of those unnecessary switches and the superfluous repetition of the executable name.

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Reply #8 –
THANK YOU!!! It finally worked. My only other question is, why doesn't ACCURIP work? It wordek with past EAC and i do have it checked off.

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Reply #9 –
Quote from: hardtymz2517 on
My only other question is, why doesn't ACCURIP work? It wordek with past EAC and i do have it checked off.

What do you mean by AccurateRip "not working"? Does it say the CD was not found in the AccurateRip database after the audio extraction is complete? Have you tried with multiple CDs? Not all CDs are in the AccurateRip database. If that's not what it says, you're going to need to be more specific.

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Reply #10 –
Quote from: Aleron Ives on
Quote from: hardtymz2517 on
My only other question is, why doesn't ACCURIP work? It wordek with past EAC and i do have it checked off.

What do you mean by AccurateRip "not working"? Does it say the CD was not found in the AccurateRip database after the audio extraction is complete? Have you tried with multiple CDs? Not all CDs are in the AccurateRip database. If that's not what it says, you're going to need to be more specific.


No, it never comes up at all.  It usually says percentage of the confindence of the rip after it done right below the track quality percentage. Is there an option I dont have checked off for that? Example "you may have a different presing of this album" so it's no confident of the rip. (Sorry if that's slightly incorrect, I forgot exactly what it says)

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Reply #11 –
AccurateRip does not give a pecentage of confidence; it merely reports the number of people who have gotten the same CRC as you did, assuming the CRC on your track matches an entry in the database. If AccurateRip is giving you messages of any kind in your rip logs, it is working properly. If you're trying to rip a CD that's not in the database, there's nothing you can do to get verification from AccurateRip. If it's not in the database, it's not in the database.

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Reply #12 –
Quote from: Aleron Ives on
AccurateRip does not give a pecentage of confidence; it merely reports the number of people who have gotten the same CRC as you did, assuming the CRC on your track matches an entry in the database. If AccurateRip is giving you messages of any kind in your rip logs, it is working properly. If you're trying to rip a CD that's not in the database, there's nothing you can do to get verification from AccurateRip. If it's not in the database, it's not in the database.


I've used the same CDs on last EAC and AccurateRip worked fine, but on this ne EAC, it won't work at all??? Also on every CD (i did about 18 so far) it always says "missing samples" on the last track. It's never done that before either. I'm using both brand new and used CDs. Why does it keep saying "missing samples" always on the last track of every CD?

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Reply #13 –
Quote from: hardtymz2517 on
Why does it keep saying "missing samples" always on the last track of every CD?
Presumably your drive has a positive read offset and thus returns samples from a later location than instructed, and it is not able/configured to overread into (what it thinks is) the lead-out to get the last few samples from there. Check if your drive can overread in this manner, and activate the option if it can. If not, you may want to use the option “Fill up missing offset samples with silence” to at least keep the track lengths consistent.

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Reply #14 –
I'm using lame 3.98.4 and EAC 1.0 beta 2 and I noticed that %s and %d along with many of the other placeholders have changed.

%s = %source%

%d = %dest%

Quote
Read here please:

http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=EAC_and_Lame

It's frustrating because none of them work for me (trial and error :\)...

I have sent a message to Jan asking about the names of all the new placeholders, asking if the article you mentioned be updated and a sticky regarding it be posted.

ALSO: for anyone that is wondering about the error message I get (or for anyone using search to resolve the same problem I have) this is the error message I get: Invalid replacement tag found !

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Reply #15 –
Quote from: Soliloquy on
I have sent a message to Jan asking about the names of all the new placeholders, ...

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Compression parameter scheme:

%source%
%dest%
%original%

%ishigh%...%ishigh%
%islow%...%islow%
%haslyrics%...%haslyrics%
%hascover%...%hascover%
%crcenabled%...%crcenabled%

%title%
%genre%
%year%
%cddbid%
%artist%
%lyrics%
%lyricsfile%
%bitrate%
%comment%
%tracknr%
%totalcds%
%cdnumber%
%composer%
%trackcrc%
%coverfile%
%numtracks%
%albumtitle%
%albumartist%
%albumcomposer%
%albuminterpret%


Greetings ...

::

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Reply #16 –
After downloading the latest build today and fumbling through trying to find the configuration I was looking for I finally found your forum
and this thread which inevitably got me to having a command line option of ( -b 320  %source% %dest% ) but can someone please enlighten me
so I am able to obtain a CBR instead of a Joint Stereo rip ?

many thanks for an informative thread.

Mike.

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Reply #17 –
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With using -b 320 you'll get CBR. Joint Stereo is a way of channel coupling.


Greetings ...

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Reply #18 –
forgive my lack of knowledge on the subject of stereo/joint stereo 'Surfi'...so am I to understand that to obtain the CBR 320@Stereo and not Joint stereo I go ahead with the command option I posted earlier ?

once again forgive my lack of knowledge in this dept.

Mike.

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Reply #19 –
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Use your command option. It's correct.
Futher reading: Channel coupling


Best regards ...

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Reply #20 –
many thanks.

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Reply #21 –
Hi all, sorry if this has been answered before.

I've just updated to the new EAC V1.0 beta 2 and get the error 'Invalid replacement tag found!'

Using FLAC for the external compression with the additional command line options of:

--best -T "artist=%a" -T "title=%t" -T "album=%g" -T "date=%y" -T "tracknumber=%n" -T "genre=%m"

This worked in the old 0.9x version but not the new one, am i missing something?

Thanks,

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Reply #22 –
Quote
am i missing something?

posts #15 and #16 in this thread.

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Reply #23 –
Quote from: lvqcl on
posts #15 and #16 in this thread.


Thanks, I realized the change in EAC for file naming, but didn't think that applied for FLAC, as they are external FLAC command lines.

Although I did try the following and it still didn't work.

--best -T "artist=%artist%" -T "title=%title%" -T "album=%albumtitle%" -T "date=%year%" -T "tracknumber=%tracknr2%" -T "genre=%genre%"

Thanks,

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Reply #24 –
EAC's Configuration Wizard sets the following command line for FLAC:

-6 -V -T "ARTIST=%artist%" -T "TITLE=%title%" -T "ALBUM=%albumtitle%" -T "DATE=%year%" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%tracknr%" -T "GENRE=%genre%" -T "COMMENT=%comment%" -T "BAND=%albuminterpret%" -T "COMPOSER=%composer%" %haslyrics%--tag-from-file=LYRICS="%lyricsfile%"%haslyrics% -T "DISCNUMBER=%cdnumber%" -T "TOTALDISCS=%totalcds%" -T "TOTALTRACKS=%numtracks%" %hascover%--picture="%coverfile%"%hascover% %source% -o %dest%

So your command line probably should be:

-8 -T "ARTIST=%artist%" -T "TITLE=%title%" -T "ALBUM=%albumtitle%" -T "DATE=%year%" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%tracknr2%" -T "GENRE=%genre%" %source% -o %dest%