ID3 tags and EAC Copy Range Compressed

2015-06-30 13:07:07

Good morning from a new EAC user.

I have no problem passing ID3 tags from the EAC GUI when copying and compressing selected tracks, but I have been unable to pass ID3 tags when using Copy Range Compressed.  I have played with EAC and searched the net for a solution, but so far nothing I've tried has worked.

I am using EAC beta 6, and lame 3.99.3.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,

Jim

ID3 tags and EAC Copy Range Compressed

Reply #1 – 2015-06-30 13:48:53

I don't think EAC knows what to enter for tags, since you are not ripping a particular track.

ID3 tags and EAC Copy Range Compressed

Reply #2 – 2015-06-30 17:07:01

You can always tag manually after ripping with MP3Tag (or with some other tagging application).

ID3 tags and EAC Copy Range Compressed

Reply #3 – 2015-07-01 11:22:03

Thanks for the responses.  You've confirmed what I was suspecting ... that there isn't a way to pass the GUI tags.  (Maybe that could be added as an option in a future release of EAC?)

My hope was to find an intuitive way to pass ID3 tags when converting audiobook CDs for use with an MP3 player.  Some have as many as 99 tracks on a single CD, and it makes sense to copy a range to a single MP3 file.  But without tags, it's impossible to properly identify the various audiobooks on the player.  Since the tags can't be passed via the GUI, I'm going to use LAME command line arguments instead.  I've got no problem with that.  I'm old enough to remember the C:> prompt!  But my significant other wants to learn how to convert audiobooks and I was hoping there was a more intuitive way to do it.  But (how should I say this?), suggesting the use of command line arguments doesn't represent a good task/talent match.  C'est la vie!!

Jim

ID3 tags and EAC Copy Range Compressed

Reply #4 – 2015-07-01 15:18:14

The CD information (CD Title %albumtitle% , CD Artist %albumartist%, CD performer %albuminterpret%, Year %year%, Genre %genre%, etc.) can be passed to the tags using the User Defined Encoder and Additional command-line options[/color] but a single track title and number would need to be edited using a tag editor (see below). If you want multiple track titles and numbers you would need to create/edit a CUE Sheet. Copying a range of tracks is essentially the same as creating a partial CDImage.

There's a bug in EAC when creating a CDImage or using Tools->Compress WAVs. The tags for track artist, title and number are always for Track 2. I've tried to get the developer to fix this. To prevent Track 2 info from being passed to the file, you need to exclude --ta "%artist%", --tt "%title%" and --tn "%tracknr%" from the command-line options. You can use %albumartist% or %albuminterpret% in place of %artist% if you want or add the Album Artist tag --tv "TPE2=%albumartist%" or --tv "TPE2=%albuminterpret%". Compression profiles can be created in EAC for your different tagging options.

edit: missing a closing "