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Cerbie

Mar 21 2005, 03:15

CODE

-8 "%s" -o "%d" -T album="%g" -T genre="%m" -T artist="%A" -T title="%T" -T tracknumber="%N" -T date="%Y" -T comment="EAC secure mode, FLAC 1.1.2 -8"

What is wrong with this? FLAC just opens and quits. I can't find any options for FLAC that would keep the command widnow up, either, and oh, maybe tell me what its problem is.

Synthetic Soul

Mar 21 2005, 03:23

%s and %d already have quotes around them I believe.

Change:

"%s" -o "%d"

... to:

%s -o %d

Synthetic Soul

Mar 21 2005, 03:32

With regard to keeping the window open: there is a checkbox to "return error codes from external compressor" (something like that) somewhere. This won't keep the box open but would have highlighted the problem with your command line I think.

Cerbie

Mar 21 2005, 03:41

The Allman Brothers Band [Live At The Atlanta International Pop Festival July 3 & 5, 1970 (Disc 1: July 3rd) 11] Rain Delay [FLAC 713k] (EAC secure mode, FLAC 1.1.2 -8)

Thanks! The quotes did it. I wonder why it didn't cause a problem for most albums, though?

Synthetic Soul

Mar 21 2005, 03:49

QUOTE(Cerbie @ Mar 21 2005, 09:41 AM)

Quite possibly the ampersand. They're tricky little critters. When used in a command line they split two commands - so <command line one> & <command line two> will run <command line one>, and then run <command line two>.

Cerbie

Mar 21 2005, 04:05

I wish there were EAC for OS X or Linux, where quotes within quotes and escape codes can be nested all day long

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