Hello,

I have been using iTunesEncode happily for a few months now. Last week my harddisk crashed and I had to re-install Windows. I downloaded the newest version of iTunes (5) and iTunesEncode and set it up to work with EAC. I copy-pasted the paramters from the iTunesEncode readme into EAC's command line options box. I use the following string:

-e "Lossless Encoder" -a "%a" -l "%g" -t "%t" -g "%m" -y %y -n %n -i %s -o %d

As you can see, I want to have my files encoded to Apple Lossless.

For reasons I don't understand, the output files, though correctly named and sized, are invalid and cannot be played. Additionaly, I get a whole lot of files with those cryptic temp-file-names in my iTunes music library.

Sorry if this has been asked before, but I really need help in fixing this problem...

Thanks a lot,

Andreas

Turn off the "Add ID3 tags to files" option in EAC. This will fix the broken files. Or rather, it'll stop making new broken files. The old broken files will remain broken.

Also, add "-d" to your command line, to delete those cryptic files in iTunes after it encodes the file.

No biggie, these are common oversights.

>For reasons I don't understand, the output files, though correctly named and sized, are invalid and cannot be played.

I have had reports that iTunes 5 Apple Lossless will not read in the opensource Apple Lossless decoder (just verified it myself), I will approch David and see if he is willing to look / fix (I think Apple have just added new chunk IDs).

Obviously it is not this is iTunes cannot play your file...