Ok, here's the deal. I have an album that I have as WAV files on my hard drive. Due to my assumption that were I to burn the WAV files to CD, and then re-rip them with EAC while converting to mp3 that would degrade the quality, I'd prefer to directly encode them with LAME.

I'm using the version of LAME 3.97b2 I downloaded from the HA Wiki, I'm guessing that's a "tweaked" version as was Dibrom's 3.90.3?

My problem is this. When I encode a CD with EAC into mp3, using only the LAME switch, -V0 --vbr-new. On the ensuing encode screen, I can see that there are many other options being used here...



I can only guess that additional options are being passed to LAME from EAC, but I don't know what they are. In trying to create mp3s from ALL2LAME with just the -V0 --vbr-new switch, the other things (MMX, SSE, polyphase lowpass, qval of 2) don't seem to be used, as can be seen in...



Anyone know which switches I'm supposed to be using to get the same result as using EAC? Does this even make any sense? Thanks in advance.

why don't you just drag the wav files into eac and convert?

You know, I'll be honest and say that thought never occured to me. I didn't realize EAC would accept anything other than files directly from a CD. Thanks, I'll try that!

I don't see these "additional options" you're talking about, since I don't see the commands being passed. I assume you're talking about the details of the encoding, such as the lowpass filter and stereo mode used, etc. At first glance these appear to be the defaults.

Looks like the encoding job went fine.

In the second picture (all2lame.jpg), the window's scrollbar is not at the top.
Scroll up and you will see the same 3 lines at the top as when you use EAC.

Yes, the tweaking has been going as strong as ever. <g>


What Cosmo and NeoRenegade said.
Also, it is better to set up EAC's Compression Settings / External Compression / Parameter passing scheme as User Defined Encoder and not "LAME MP3 Encoder" - see the screenshot in Wiki. That way you prevent EAC from passing LAME any parameters other than the ones you specify in the Additional command line options box (don't forget the %s %d part).

Then you can perfectly match the settings between EAC and All2Lame (or any other frontend): -V0 --vbr-new in All2Lame = -V0 --vbr-new %s %d in EAC.

HTH