I am setting up EAC after a reinstal and am setting my compression options. I'm bypassing EAC's tag writer and using the following command line for LAME (found on one of the other threads) to write the id3 tags.

--alt-preset standard --add-id3v2 --pad-id3v2 --ta "%a" --tt "%t" --tl "%g" --ty "%y" --tn "%n" %s %d

My question is, What specifically do I add to this command to additionally fill in the 'Genre' and 'Comments' lines? It's a pain to have to go back and manually edit all the tags after encoding to add this info.

If possible, could someone actually write out the entire character string so I could just copy and paste it into the command line option in EAC. I realize I would have to add my own text for the comment line. Thanks in advance.

For genre add --tg "%m"
There's a reason why it was removed from the standard recommended line; namely that lame.exe chokes if fed parameters not predefined in it's genre list.
You can run lame --genre-list to print a list of the safe ones.

I recently ran into this problem. I bypassed it by using --ignore-tag-errors. That way I don't have to double check the genres to make sure they line up with the predefined ones.

OK. And --tc are comment... So assuming you are using 3.96.1 we drop the "alt" (use --alt-preset if you use 3.90.3), you could try out this line:

That post is SO helpful to me. Thank You

Hello, I notice you are using the command --tc "Blah Blah" to add a Comment field to the tag.

I've been trying to use %e to fill in Comment fields, but I can't seem to find the box I need to fill in in EAC to feed that %e value. Everytime I tried this (testing a 3-track CD copied to compressed image + CUE sheet), the comment was set to "track 2".

Is there any way to change the Comment in EAC rather than in the command line ?

Thanks.

Yes. You can specify your comment on the Offset tab of Compression Options.

That will only work if you check "Add ID3 tag" under "External Compression". It's not recommended to let EAC itself set the tags on the files, it's been found to be unreliable...

Agreed. Does the new EAC version 0.95Beta1 add any options to set a comment without using id3 tagging ?

New info just came to my attention; --ignore-tag-errors doesn't work with 3.90.3. I've only tested this with 3.96.1....

How is that?

First of all it's mentioned here.
One thing I've experienced myself is simply that EAC doesn't always add all tags. Basically, if the chosen encoder (or wapet or something) can tag the files I choose that over EAC.
Also for those encoders that have something like --deleteinput I generally let the encoder delete the wav file rather than EAC. (The encoder know when the wav file is not needed anymore, in some rare instances EAC can delete it prematurely.)

When will LAME have a "delete input on encoding completion" option?