You can do as you wish, but you would probably need my mod, and a reasonable amount of config editing.

I have created a mod of REACT that allows you to easily insert and update tokens (e.g.: @discnumber@).

I have published amendments to the config to amend the path to utilise @discnumber@ or @discname@ tokens.  Unfortunately the wiki appears to be down at the moment so I can't provide a link.

My mod would allow you to easily set @discnumber@, @albumartist@ and @mixedby@ tokens (and @totaldiscs@ if you want).  However, the bit that takes the time is amending the config to utilise these tokens.  As I say, I've published code for adding the disc number to the path.  Setting a "Mixed By" tag shouldn't be too complicated.  I think you'd just need some code that checked whether a value was set for @albumartist@, and set the tag accordingly.

In essence, yes it is possible, with a little work.

NB: You could do it without my mod, by directly adding values to the REACT INI, but the idea with the mod is that you can easily adjust values using a GUI, from within EAC.  It depends how often you intend to use this approach.

I would be extremely interested in these kind of freatures being built in as I am quite particular that my music is tagged correctly (I suspect I am not alone here ).

Are you planning to add this kind of functionality to coming releases of REACT?

There you go Neil, the interest is building!

There is no need to update REACT for your requiements.  With my mod and some config editing you can do it.  Editing the config is the way in which users are supposed to tweak REACT to do exactly what they want.

• Prefixing a token name with an underscore will stop it from being added to any cuesheets.  Useful for excluding temporary tokens, which are not really disc meta data.
• Fixes REACT issue with "%" in any field (see post #384).
• Fixes REACT issue with "&" in the track name when using REACT-track.cfg  (see post #386).  You must replace the lines*:
  
  
  Code: [Select]

  IF @various@==0 SET TrackName=@TrackName_SA@
  IF @various@==1 SET TrackName=@TrackName_VA@

  
  with:
  
  
  Code: [Select]

  SET TrackName=@trackname@

[/list]Remember to set Version=2.0.ssb10 in your INI.

Does the 'trackname' replacement in the post above still handle various artist albums OK?

Please, remind me, what does this achieve?

Code: [Select]

IF @various@==0 SET TrackName=@TrackName_SA@
IF @various@==1 SET TrackName=@TrackName_VA@

with:

Code: [Select]

SET TrackName=@trackname@

• REACT reads TrackName_SA and TrackName_VA from the INI.
• REACT replaces the tokens @TrackName_SA@ and @TrackName_VA@ in the CFG with the values in the INI, which contain further REACT tokens ($track$ - $title$).
• REACT continues to replace tokens with values, eventually replacing the tokens used in TrackName_SA and TrackName_VA with their values.
• CFG sets %TrackName% depending on the token @various@

• REACT reads TrackName_SA and TrackName_VA from the INI.
• REACT decides whether to use TrackName_SA or TrackName_VA.
• REACT replaces tokens in the chosen variable with their values
• REACT replaces "^" with "^^" and "&" with "^&".
• REACT replaces the token @trackname@ in the CFG with the new value.
• CFG sets %TrackName% to the value of @trackname@.

I think I get it.  I thought you were handling the & problem through the config (you were in post 386/7 right?).  It would seem however that you have rewritten React to correct the problem.  Right?
Cheers again.  Have a great weekend

You can still use the hack in the posts you quote, or (with beta 10 or above) change the lines to use @tracknumber@.  I just thought it would be neater, and possibly more robust, if REACT handled it.

but where do you stand if tycho releases 2.1?  You are the official support so do you think it likely that these changes would make it into this theoretical 2.1?  Or, is 2.1 unlikely?

In your REACT.ini you will see the section UserTrackFormats.  This section detirmines what track formats are created.  Ensure you have set Flac=0, not Flac=1.

The image format is determined by the value of ImageExt under Settings.

CreateAllCuesheets is really for track processing, not image processing.

If you have it checked you will (should) be creating the four (additional) cuesheets, but unless you make amends to your config, to do something with them, they will be deleted at the end of the processing run.

They really are no use to you if you are creating an image; you only need the cuesheet you have.

If you want more information on the INI settings it may be worth checking the REACT wiki article.

Edit: Actually, the wiki has just reminded me of a nuance with CreateAllCuesheets: it will only work if you have specified a "static" extraction directory, i.e.: have "Use this directory" checked on the "Directories" tab of the "EAC options".  If you have "Ask every time" checked it won't work IIRC.

It changes the settings of the Filename in the EAC Options and gets rid of all references to '\' and replaces them with '-'. This stops me creating the sub-directories under the headings 'CD Artist\CD Title' etc.

For example in EAC I use "%D\%C\%N - %T - %A" and "Various Artists\%C\%N - %T - %A". It changes them to "%D - %C - %N - %T" and "%D - %C - %N - %T (%A)" and then saves the files in the main folder as specified in the 'Directories' option without letting me create the sub-directories.

Can I get round this way of naming the converted music files so that it is the same as EAC used to be?

[UserOutputNames]
OutRoot=C:\Path\To\My\Music
...
TrackDir_MP3=@OutRoot@\$cdartist$\$album$
...
TrackName_SA=$tracknumber$ - $title$ - $artist$
TrackName_VA=$tracknumber$ - $title$ - $artist$
TrackName_SA_acdir=$n - $~t - $~a
TrackName_VA_acdir=$n - $~t - $~a

• Sets a base folder (OutRoot) of "C:\Path\To\My\Music".
• Specifies that MP3s should be stored in OutRoot filed under CD Artist and then Album - for VA albums, CD Artist will be set to the value of the "VA" value in the "Settings" section of the INI (at the top), which defaults to "Various Artists" - so you can just leave it alone.
• Sets the track naming scheme as $tracknumber$ - $title$ - $artist$ for standard albums.
• Sets the track naming scheme as $tracknumber$ - $title$ - $artist$ for VA albums.

Also I've had a play with the Cover Art Downloader but it also puts the .jpg in the main folder (with the correct Album title though). Can I change the settings to put the jpg into the associated album sub-directories. I've tried adding all different combinations of '%' '$' and '&' followed by 'Artist' and 'Album' in the 'save as' box but to no avail. Can anyone help me on this

No.

However, you could amend the REACT-image.cfg to process both the FLAC and WavPack sections, and use something like SED to make a copy of the cuesheet, replacing ".flac" with ".wv".

It's all possible...

Do you really need two lossless versions?