Another post from a new guy,

(again maybe I'm not in the right place, if so then please redirect)

I currently have EAC V0.9 beta 4, Lame 3.90.3 and RazorLame 1.1.5 on my computer at home.

I have two copies of Lame on there:

One within my C:\Exact Audio Copy\Program Files\ folder which is used by EAC for one step ripping and encoding.

I then have RazorLame in a totally different folder C:\RLame and within that is another copy of Lame, which is used by RazorLame.

So I'm ok with doing two-step stuff.
Rip from CD to Wav using EAC. Then open up RazorLame and select those wav files and encode them to mp3 using Lame.

However the way it's set up at the moment, when I do single step ripping and encoding with EAC and Lame it does the encoding with its own copy of Lame and hence just displays the DOS window.

Can I set it up so that even on one-step ripping and encoding EAC rips then calls up Lame to encode, but uses RazorLame as an active front end for this stage?

I'd like to be able to use RazorLame to change my Lame settings even when doing one-step ripping and encoding. At the moment a different copy of lame is used for one-step, so changes I make in my razorlame linked copy don't have an effect.
I'm not sure how I could get full and easy control over the lame settings for the dos version currently used automatically by eac.

Can I just change to User Defined external Compressor bit on EAC to call up the copy of Lame that is contained within my RazorLame folder rather than its own separate copy?
Or do I set EAC to call up RazorLame instead for external Compressing, which in turn will then call up the appropriate Lame?

Thanks

alexw

Basic answer is no. EAC acts as a front end for lame the same way razor lame does. You have the abitlity in EAC to do everything that RazorLame does. The only advantage I could see in RazorLame is it's Histogram, but you can get this from the dos box if you know how to read it. Not to mention, EAC will add tags.