Just received a copy of Coldplay X&Y and went to rip it using EAC 0.95 pb5 and Lame 3.96. EAC reads the tracks fine but when it goes to compress the Lame window flashes quickly and the track is not being compressed, up till now this combo has performed beautifully. I removed Lame and reinstalled it but no joy. Before I remove EAC and have to reconfigure it I was wondering if there is something else I should try?

Thanks

I don't think this is part of the copy protection, but why don't you rip your files as wav files (uncompressed) and once that is done use EAC to compress your wav files?

Thanks Jojo, that is what I did and it worked fine but I'm curious as to what may have ocurred as it worked fine for quite some time.

You could try checking the Check for the external program's return code checkbox on the External Compression tab under Compression Options. If LAME successfully encodes all the WAVs with EAC's Compress WAVs... function, there is no reason why it shouldn't when using Copy Selected Tracks -> Compressed. Is it that no tracks are comptessed, or only some of them?

Sorry Never Again I got side tracked at work so haven't checked back in awhile. The problem on the Cold Play disc, if memory serves me well was global but just yesterday I tried compressing some WAV files and the same thing happened ie. the Lame DOS window flashes opened and then closed w/ no decoding. I haven't tried reburning the the WAV files but will try that soon.

Thank you.

Do you encode with the DLL or the EXE. List all your settings on the Waveform and the External Compression tabs of Compression Options. BTW, you should use LAME v3.96.1 and not v3.96 as the latter had some bugs that were fixed in the .1 revision.

Thanks Never Again. I should have said Lame 3.96.1 originally. The path for the encode points to the lame.exe, as for the options on the Waveform tab they are all greyed out. Under the External Compression tab is:
1. User Defined
2. MP3
3. Path for LAme.exe
4. The following command line; --alt-preset standard --add-id3v2 --pad-id3v2 --ta "%a" --tt "%t" --tl "%g" --ty "%y" --tn "%n" --tg "%m" %s %d
5. Bitrate defaults to 192
6. Delete Wav, add ID3 tags and high quality.

Thanks again!

Maybe the '&' in X&Y is causing the troubles? Try renaming the album name in EAC to X-Y and see if it works...

I had the same problem. It was due, either to illegal characters, either to a genre subgroup that was not included in id3v1 or id3v2 specs.

You should disable 'Add ID3 Tag', since you have allready enabled tagging through the commandline... -Martin.

I would try just the --preset-standard without any additional parameters. It is quite likely that the tagging parameters cause trouble here.

Make that --preset standard %s %d because I'm pretty sure EAC won't work with LAME without the %s %d.

Ah yes, of course. %s and %d are required if User Defined Encoder is selected in the Parameter passing scheme drop-down box. Thank you for the correction, gfngfgf.