I have installed v0.8 and saw the conversion option has changed. I can't figure out how to convert for example to mp3. What happened? Is there any information about using external codecs?
Thx in advance.

Check this thread for help how to encode to mp3. It refers to other formats too, you have only change output preset in diskwriter preferences:
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....ndpost&p=193583

So why did the diskwriter feature changed then ("settings" button disappeared etc.)? "Legacy" means that the old 0.7.7 plugins are used, right?
And what's up with the Ogg Vorbis -q 5? It seems to have a fixed setting, which doesn't make sense to me.
Any more info on how the convert thingy in 0.8 is different now? I liked the old way very much, but seems to be that the new system will be even better when all the diskwriter plugins are replaced.

Have you ever tried this?
1) go to prefs|diskwriter
2) select Ogg Vorbis: -q5.00
3) click "Edit"

Thx WILU!

I've checked http://foobar2000.blogsite.org/ and will download and try the CLI encoder. There's no information though. I'm bothered with the preservation of tags. Will original tag info be written in the new output?

Why has this part been changed in v0.8? The v7.7 conversion implementation was nice and easy to use. The new method contradicts the high level of personalization of a lot of settings through UI.

I think it's much more flexible now! Just make presets and you're done. No danger of misconfiguration anymore.

Regards,
The Link

Then could you explain how to include (create preset) the Monkey encoder and how to make sure the tag info is passed?
Thx

1. Make sure you have all the neccessary plugins installed (foo_monkey for foobar 2000 0.8 from here.
2. Configure all the diskwriter settings you already know from 0.7
3. Click on "Add new" under "Output presets" --> Choose "Monkey's Audio" --> OK --> Choose a compression level --> OK
4. In the playlist select all songs you want to convert --> Right click on the selection --> Covert --> Run conversion --> Choose the preset you made in 3. --> OK (--> evt. you'll be asked for the location if you configured diskwriter to do so)
5. Now you should have .ape files, which have all the tags from the source files.

Regards,
The Link

You can also to do it with CLI encoder. Just choose in diskwriter options:
Output presets: commandline encoder monkey's audio. You will need mac.exe file (it is command line monkey's audio encoder). Click edit, add path to the mac.exe, choose tag type: APEv2 and follow steps I pointed you in the link. All tags should be achieved during conversion.
There is, under parameters, default commandline: %s %d -c2000. If you change "c" parameter to c3000 then you will get high compression, and to c4000 you will get extra high compression...