Courtesy by Case.


First select compression options from the EAC menu:

Open 'External Compression' tab.

1. Check 'Use external program for compression'
2. Change 'Parameter passing scheme' to 'User Defined Encoder'
3. Set file extension to .mpc
4. Click 'Browse' and locate 'mppenc.exe'
5. Change 'Additional command line options' to (example):
--quality 5 --xlevel --artist "%a" --title "%t" --album "%g" --year "%y" --track "%n" --genre "%m" %s

6. Check 'Delete WAV after compression'
7. Uncheck 'Add ID3 tag'

Open 'Offset' tab.
Uncheck 'Use Offset Correction for encoding and decoding'.

That's about it. Make sure you use the Secure mode (under Drive Options) for best extraction results with EAC.

Why not making it to a sticky thread?

Well, it's already linked from the "recommended settings" thread and should mostly be a complement to that.

why %s only in the end of command line?
I always wrote %s %d

And I wrote --releasedate instad of --year
is it right ?

Actually --quality 5 is redundant, since it is the default. Not that it really matters.

%m belongs to the --genre statement and %d is not needed since mppenc automatically outputs in the format of %d (as opposed to lame.exe).

--quality 5 is redundant but should be left for newbies who want to modify their settings.

Thanks, & what about --releasedate or --year ?