Hi,

I've installed EAC and LAME according to the QuickStart Manual on a Windows 2000 machine. Everything looks fine and as it should for compressed recording, but when I make a rip, I get the wav files and no mp3s. After EAC copies a track, the black box of a commandline program I take to be LAME pops up and almost immediately disappears. It has some text in it, but it closes before I can really read it. The same thing happens for every track.

It seems to have something to do with my computer and commandline programs. When I double-click lame.exe, the box appears for an even shorter amount of time, and disappears. I can bring up a commandline that hangs around by going to Run ---> Command, but I don't know how that helps me with EAC and LAME.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

Your command line is wrong considering the context that it was entered in. Under EAC compression options, look at the box "paramater passing schemes" if this says "user defined encoder" the "additional command line options box" must be entered in a very specific and not well documented format, a bit too complex for me to approach at the moment. Are you reading this Andre?

If you change "parameter passing schemes" to lame MP3 encoder, then you can enter something like "--preset standard" in the "additional command lines box" make sure that the bit rate box is set to something like 128 and the high quality box is checked. If the bit rate is is too high, that will take precedence over the preset. At least this is true for the latest EAC and the HA recommended Lame 390.3. I just went through this process today experimenting with oggenc2, switching back and forth, which is something that EAC does not like that much. Also, check the program path and file name extension.

Other combinations? I don't know because --preset standard is the optimum setting for Lame as far as I am concerned.

-Ron

Are you using %s %d in the command line?

For example: --alt-preset standard %s %d

To clarify:
This is needed if you use "user defined encoder", but not if you follow eagleray:s advice...

I forgot to mention that, though I was under the assumption that "user defined encoder" was what anonapon was using, considering there are "quickstart guides" out there that suggest it. His problem is relative to %s %d not being added (as far as I know).

Thanks for the help. I got it to work. The problem, embarrassingly, was that I forgot to put the dash in front of the alt... setting.

Thanks again.