I am new to this and very computer iliterate, any help would be appericated. I ripped all my cd'c with audiograbber and lame but last night I tried EAC with lame and could tell a big difference. So now I want to rerip all my cd's with EAC. Heres my problem when I rip a cd, eac puts the songs in a file with each song seperate. When I ripped with audiograbber it would put the album in the file and the songs under the album. Is there a way I can do this with EAC. I want to tag all my song to show up right on my ipod photo and just don't know if I am doing it right. I set EAC up in there dummy mode and used it like that. Thanks again for any help.

Go to EAC > EAC Options. Select the Filename tab.

Create a "Naming scheme" using the parameters available (listed on the dialogue)

Mine is:

%A\%C\%N - %T

... which will result in:

<artist>\<album>\<track> - <title>

Edit: with regard to tagging: how are you using LAME - as an external compressor or are you using the DLL?

I am useing lame as an external compresser, when I install EAC it searched and got the lame from audiograbber. I think it is set up at alt preset standard if I remember right. Thanks for your help

If EAC got LAME from Audiograbber then I would have thought that you were using the DLL. I don't really know about such things though.

You can tell whether you are using the DLL or LAME.EXE by going into the Compression Options. If the first tab, "Waveform", is disabled then you are using the external compressor - in which case "Use external program for compression" will be checked on the "External Compression" tab.

If you are using an external compressor (advisable) then there are benefits to tagging via the command line. Check the wiki for more info.

If you are using the DLL then go to the "ID3 Tag" tab in the Compression Options and set your preferences there.

I'm afraid I don't know whether iPods use ID3v1 or ID3v2 or either/both. I would try ID3v1.1 and additionally write ID3v2 (2.3.0) though.