I have used Exact Audio Copy to compress my CD music collection into an archive of .flac tracks. Used my own command line option of VBR (perfect quality - not fast at all):

-8 -V -T "artist=%a" -T "title=%t" -T "album=%g" -T "date=%y" -T "tracknumber=%n" -T "genre=%m" %s

I have foobar2000 (v0.8.3) set up as per:

http://www.neilpopham.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk..._transcode.html

I have followed the text and created a profile of my own using a LAME command line as recommended at Hydrogen Audio:

EAC for LAME.exe with tagging, i.e.
ID3v1 and ID3v2:
-V 2 --vbr-new --add-id3v2 --pad-id3v2 --ta "%a" --tt "%t" --tl "%g" --ty "%y" --tn "%n" %s %d (the preset fast standard)

When I convert using foobar I get the following errors:

ERROR (foo_diskwriter) : Conversion failed.

Can anyone help?

Thanks

JH

Try:
-V2 --vbr-new - %d

Tags are automatically reported from input to output.

Hi Janhol. Thanks for posting to a thread.


The placeholders used (%a, %t, etc.) are for EAC, not foobar.

Try:


... instead.

NB: Using "- %d" instead of "%s %d" means that foobar pipes the data to LAME, rather than creating an temporary WAVE file.

Edit: Sorry, I've just realise what Guruboolez has recommended. He is right - if you pick "ID3v2" from the "Tag" dropdown on the "Commandline Encoder Settings" dialogue you should achieve the same results with his suggested commandline. This will, however, depend on whether you have foo_id3v2 installed.

Just a stupid question from my side: Why should one add "--add-id3v2 --pad-id3v2 --ta "%artist%" --tt "%title%" --tl "%album%" --ty "%date%" --tn "%tracknumber%" - %d" to the cli encoder in foobar2000? For me the tags were always copied over according to my tag settings. Do I miss sth. here?

edit: Argh ... I should read the entire thread/posts! Sorry!

Depends whether you have the Tag dropdown set to "none" or not.

Personally, I do - because I like to tag using LAME for two reasons:

1. I like to use the "ID3v1 with ID3v2 only when necessary" setting
2. It means I can copy only the tags I want. Useful if converting from an image file with embedded cuesheet (if you tag automatically the CUESHEET tag is copied over to each track)

As Janhol is using ID3v2 then 1. is out the window - I suppose it's whether 2. is useful to him/her.

Superb!

-V2 --vbr-new --add-id3v2 --pad-id3v2 --ta "%artist%" --tt "%title%" --tl "%album%" --ty "%date%" --tn "%tracknumber%" - %d

Worked perfectly

Thanks very much!

JH

Good news Janhol.

I wondered why you had PM'ed me direct, and did consider that you had hunted me down from my guide.

NB: It may be worth bearing in mind letting foobar tag your files (i.e.: using Guruboolez' command line and picking ID3v2 from the tag dropdown) - just as it keeps your command line much easier to read and maintain.

ad 1) This kind of tagging scheme already seems to be present in 0.9
ad 2) Agreed! That could be a good reason.

Sorry again for not having read the whole thread.

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