I have EAC and LAME set up on 2 different computers following the wiki guides. Most of my CDs have been ripped/encoded fine (and sounding great!). But I have 3 CDs so far that never get encoded to MP3. The dos box pops up for a second and then EAC starts ripping the next track. EAC thinks everything worked fine but leaves me with all wav files. It works like that on both computers.

Any ideas on how to get it to work?

Just out of curiosity, do any of the track titles have quotation marks in them? That has caused me problems in the past.

Have you loaded any configurations lately? I was having the same problem, but it started doing it with all CD's and WAV files that I tried to compress. I had changed (loaded) a different configuration, so I started from scratch and went back and checked all of my settings by using the guides here and found that under the Compression Options screen on the "Parameter Passing Scheme:" I had "LAME MP3 Encoder" selected rather than "User Defined Encoder." I switched it to that and it works fine again. Just a thought. Sometimes it's the simple things.

Yes, switch to User Defined Encoder. Also make very sure your "Additional command line options" line ends with %S %D. That business about the dos box popping up for just a second is almost a dead giveaway for this being the problem.

Regards,
Madrigal

Do these CDs have a valid genre set in EAC?

Try adding --ignore-tag-errors to your command line. Without it, if LAME encounters an invalid genre it will exit. With it, it will default the genre to "Other" and carry on.

Edit: slightly more info here.

And the winner is Synthetic Soul! It was the genre tag that was messing it all up. All my other settings were fine. Once I added your tag, my "special" CDs started encoding just fine.

Thanks for the quick replies from everyone!

Now back to encoding.