Hello. I have been using EAC for years now, and never have had an issue using the tagging setting suggested in recommended LAME settings thread:

ID3v1 and 2
--alt-preset standard --add-id3v2 --pad-id3v2 --ta "%a" --tt "%t" --tl "%g" --ty "%y" --tn "%n" %s %d

I recently reinstalled windows, and intially cut and pasted the setting into EAC with everything else the same as I had set it previously. Now, upon starting to encode, I get the following error message:

Command: F:\Apps\Lame3.90.3\lame.exe --alt-preset standard --add-id3v2 --pad-id3v2 --ta "%a" --tt "%t" --tl "%g" --ty "%y" --tn "%n" %s %d "G:\Music\Pearl Jam\Vitalogy\01 - Pearl Jam - Last Exit.wav" "G:\Music\Pearl Jam\Vitalogy\01 - Pearl Jam - Last Exit.mp3"
F:\Apps\Lame3.90.3\lame.exe: excess arg G:\Music\Pearl Jam\Vitalogy\01 - Pearl Jam - Last Exit.wav
LAME version 3.90.3 MMX (http://www.mp3dev.org/)
-- Compiled at http://www.hydrogenaudio.org
-- Check this website for up to date information on the --alt-presets
usage: F:\Apps\Lame3.90.3\lame.exe [options] <infile> [outfile]
<infile> and/or <outfile> can be "-", which means stdin/stdout.
Try:
"F:\Apps\Lame3.90.3\lame.exe --help" for general usage information
or:
"F:\Apps\Lame3.90.3\lame.exe --preset help" for information on suggested predefined settings
"F:\Apps\Lame3.90.3\lame.exe --alt-preset help" for information on the seperate and very highly
tuned for quality predefined settings
or:
"F:\Apps\Lame3.90.3\lame.exe --longhelp"
or "F:\Apps\Lame3.90.3\lame.exe -?" for a complete options list
RazorLame encountered an unknown message from LAME while trying to encode "G:\Music\Pearl Jam\Vitalogy\01 - Pearl Jam - Last Exit.wav"!

Encoded 0 files in 0:00:00
There was an unexpected LAME message for one file, please check log for error messages.

I troubleshot in razorlame and found that as long as I remove the "%s %d%" it will encode, but the resulting tag fields are read as the variables...%t, %a.

Can anyone help out as to what may be causing this. I am using LAME 3.90.3 with EAC 95pb5. As I said, I have never had this problem until now.

Thanks in advance for any help.

i just tried the exact encoder string that you used in my EAC and it worked fine.

have you set the parameter passing scheme: to LAME MP3 encoder or User defined encoder?

it should be set to user defined encoder for that encoder string to work.

Follow this guide in the wiki.

Ha! Thank you so much. The passing scheme was set to LAME. That's the first time I had to change that, so I must have went through the setup too fast. Again, thanks for opening my eyes.