Trying to convert wave files to mp3 with EAC and create ID3 tags at the same time, using Tools > Compress WAVs Here's the command line I'm using:



The tags come out blank except for the comment, which is included properly.

The original wave includes the Number Artist - Title. is there a different command line to use in this situation?

I don't think EAC can use filenames to create tags, but I might be wrong. For creating tags from filenames you need a masstagger. One possibility: foobar2000.
Maybe there are other lame frontends that can do both (endcode + create tags from filenames) at once.

BTW: Where do your .wav files come from? Maybe there's a better sollution...

The problem is that if you use EAC to compress previously-ripped wavs, it has no way to know what "%t" or "%a" means, since it doesn't come from the CDDB data of the CD nor from a "tag from filename" option, which, AFAIK, EAC lacks.
I am not sure about why the tags come out empty instead of "%a", etc, though... LAMEDropXP supports tagging using %1, %2, %3 which can be used to represent filename, parent directory and grand-parent directory, respectively. This might be an feature added to LAMEdropXP or hardcoded into the Lame executable. Given the filename structure of your wav files, though, I guess this possibility is no good to get proper tags. You'll probably have to use a masstagger such as Tag, foobar2k's or a commercial one like Tag&Rename.

Well, the waves were ripped from my various cds, for a compilation cd. Then I later decided to convert them to mp3s to remove the appended silent gaps easily with mp3trim. I could have ripped them to mp3 with tags from the source I guess.

Another wave came from an APE that I decompressed and cut up with the cue.

The easy way would have been to rip from the source to mp3, or convert from ape to mp3, but the mp3 step was an afterthought. I just assumed EAC could do it.

I'll have a look at the foobar tagging.