Hello, I have a copy of Exact Audio Copy V0.95 prebeta 3 and the version of lame recomended on the forum and its all been set up but whenever I try to compress an album or track it rips the wav okay and then a dos box flashes up and then disappears. It says it has been compressed but when I check the file its still a .wav. I've set it up to delete .wavs after compression so this shouldn't happen. It will compress them if I set lame as a queued encoder. I've tried an older version of EAC but that just gives errors upon loading and then closes. I've also tried another version of lame and I get the same problem but it works perfectly when I use a .mpc encoder. Can anyone help?

Hmm, i can think of several reasons here. First, what's your commandline for LAME in EAC? If it includes "-Z", remove that, and use plain "--alt-preset standard". The compile recommended on this forum will not accept -Z in the commandline (because it uses it automatically). Also, double-check the path to lame.exe. Or maybe you could post the contents of the page "Compression options" -> "External Compression" here, then we could see what's wrong.

The command line i'm using is --alt-preset standard, the bit rate box has 192 in it, high quality is selected and so are the delete .wav and add tag. I checked the pathname and thats alright. Lame appears to be loaded as it flashes up then disapears. I also tried running lame from the dos prompt and it worked fine.

what are all your settings?

I let the configuration wizard set it up and the only options I changed were the command line and I set it to create a playlist.

This is how it needs to look like (from Volcano's page): encodersettings.png

Thanks that seems to have sorted it.

That screwed me up too the first few times I tried ripping directly to MP3 with EAC, the %s and %d stuff, heh. Good luck.