Thanks to liekloo's excellent EAC guide, I have EAC successfully calling Mareo and sending relevant parameters. However, Mareo. . .

1) Is only creating the temporary .flac file, not the final.
2) Is aiming the final file at the directory EAC is aimed at vs. the directory I specified in the mareo.ini.

I have pasted in the Mareo session info as well as the relevant contents of the mareo.ini file. Any thoughts?

Also: Otto's site to access iTunesEncode.zip has been down last few days. Any mirrors?

Note: My ultimate goal is to have a single process to create FLAC (for archive) and AAC files (for iTunes use). Thanks!

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Mareo session info:

MAREO - Multiple Applications Runner for EAC and Others - GPL Licensed
2.0.4 - Copyright 2003-2004 by Kwanbis - http://mareo.monkeydev.org/
Developed with Borland Delphi info @ http://borland.com/delphi).

*** Received Command Line ***

"C:\Program Files\eac095pb5\Mareo\mareo.exe" mareo.ini "Natalie Merchant - Tiger
lily (1995) - 10 - Where I Go.wav" "C:\Rips\Ntmp)!3--.wav" "C:\Rips\Ntmp)!3--."
"Natalie Merchant" "Tigerlily" "Where I Go" "10" 1995 "Rock"

*** Parsed Parameters ***

INIfileName (%1) = mareo.ini
@finalnameonly@ (%2) = Natalie Merchant - Tigerlily (1995) - 10 - Where I Go
@source@ (%3) = C:\Rips\Ntmp)!3--.wav
@dest@ (%4) = C:\Rips\Ntmp)!3--.
@artist@ (%5) = Natalie Merchant
@album@ (%6) = Tigerlily
@title@ (%7) = Where I Go
@track@ (%8) = 10
@year@ (%9) = 1995
@genre@ (%10) = Rock

*** PROCESSING ENCODER ORDER # 1 ***

NEW Extension = flac

TMP Dest Full Name = C:\Rips\Ntmp)!3--.flac
TMP Dest Path Only = C:\Rips
TMP Dest Name Only = Ntmp)!3--

FINAL NAME Full Name = C:\Rips\Natalie Merchant - Tigerlily (1995) - 10 - Where
I Go.flac
FINAL NAME Path Only = C:\Rips
FINAL NAME Name Only = Natalie Merchant - Tigerlily (1995) - 10 - Where I Go

EXECUTING: c:\Program Files\Encoders\flac\flac.exe -8 "C:\Rips\Ntmp)!3--.wav" -o
"C:\Rips\Ntmp)!3--.flac" -T artist="Natalie Merchant" -T album="Tigerlily" -T d
ate=1995 -T tracknumber="10" -T title="Where I Go" -T genre="Rock" -T comment="F
LAC+MAREO" ...

flac 1.1.1, Copyright © 2000,2001,2002,2003,2004 Josh Coalson
flac comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are
welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type `flac' for details.

options: -P 4096 -b 4608 -m -l 12 -e -q 0 -r 0,6
Ntmp)!3--.wav: 58% complete, ratio=0.545

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Mareo.ini contents:

; FLAC
EXT = flac
PATH = c:\rips\@extonly@
ENCODER = c:\Program Files\Encoders\flac\flac.exe
PARAMETERS = -8 "@source@" -o "@dest@" -T artist="@artist@" -T album="@album@" -T date=@year@ -T tracknumber="@track@" -T title="@title@" -T genre="@genre@" -T comment="FLAC+MAREO"

The directory for the first encode is determined by EAC, if you were trying to encode to other formats you would notice that they would end up in the correct paths. IIRC kwanbis is going to change this for the next release, if you want a temporary workaround checkout the MAREO 2.0 thread. The solution is on page 5 or 6 of that thread.

Mareo is not in the guide yet, but it's on top of my To Do list.
I'm currently short of time (exams) and I must figure out myself how to use mareo (so far I've never needed it).

Any thoughts on the failure to produce the final file (regardless of path)?

iTunesEncode.zip mirrors?

Thanks.

What is the difference between a "temporary" FLAC file and a final FLAC file?

MAREO seems to create a temporary FLAC file and then a final. Here's the relevant bit of the MAREO session:

TMP Dest Full Name = C:\Rips\Ntmp)!3--.flac
TMP Dest Path Only = C:\Rips
TMP Dest Name Only = Ntmp)!3--

FINAL NAME Full Name = C:\Rips\Natalie Merchant - Tigerlily (1995) - 10 - Where
I Go.flac
FINAL NAME Path Only = C:\Rips
FINAL NAME Name Only = Natalie Merchant - Tigerlily (1995) - 10 - Where I Go

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MAREO never creates the "final file". It seems to stop after creating the temp file (in this case C:\Rips\Ntmp)!3--.flac). Am I just not telling MAREO to rename and move the file?

MAREO just uses 8.3 file names for the encoding, as eac/cdex do, cause there could be encoders that don't know how to handle long file names. MAREO should rename automatically after the encode is ok (unless is the first encoder).