A while back, I was playing bit with Mareo 2.1.1., using it in conjunction with EAC. I had all kinds of trouble with it (or EAC) deleting the compressed files after they were encoded. I worked around this by putting my endcoded files (ogg, m4a, and mpc) in different directories. I read on this forum that other people were having similar problems, and figured newer versions would fix the problem. Recently I checked out the 2.1.2 version and was pleased to see that in this version that problem seemed to be fixed and I could put the output files in the same directory without having any of them get deleted.

Here's my problem with version 2.1.2. I do not want to have the wav file deleted after encoding. With this version it deletes it whether the "Delete wav after compression" in EAC is checked or not. I thought maybe there was something in the Mareo ini file I could modify to retain the wav file.

In the older version the wav was not deleted in my setup even though it was supposed to be. I believe this was a known problem and there were workarounds but in my case I wanted to keep the wav anyway, so this problem worked to my advantage.

ok, i modified mareo not to delete the file:

http://s2.ultrashare.net/hosting/fs/2a937686f067451c/

Thanks kwanbis. I really appreciate it.

In case your wondering why I didn't want to delete the wav, here's the reason. I have a friend who is an audio technician who works for a local radio station. He knows a great deal about analog audio, but very little about mp3s or other compressed formats. In fact he doesn't even own a computer! He keeps insisting that compression causes dramatic quality loss. I figured the only way to convince him otherwise was to encode some of his favorite music in various format of similar bitrate plus some stuff that is known to cause problems, decode it back to wavs, then burn them as audio CDs which he can listen to on his high-end home audio system. I. of course, would not tell him which sample was which, and naturally I'd want to include the original uncompressed wavs. Not a true ABX protocol, I know, but we thought it would be fun. He does have a very good ear, so it should be interesting to see how this this turns out.