I have EAC setup as described in the lame forum here:

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/...hp/t28124.html

My switch line is:

-V 2 --vbr-new --add-id3v2 --pad-id3v2 --ta "%a" --tt "%t" --tl "%g" --ty "%y" --tn "%n" %s %d

The problem is I want various artist albums to have "Various Artists" as the artist tag in the mp3, but even when I uncheck the various box and write "Various Artists" it will write the individual name of the artist in the artist tag.

How do I fix this?

My first guess would be to change the command line to
I suggest you create a new profile for this as I don't know if there's any option in EAC to change the "Additional Commands" according to wether it's a cd with various artists or not. It works for the folders though.

Babaostyle, your URL is broken. If you want to copy it from another post, you should do so by right-clicking on it rather than copying what you seeing (a shortened version) as is.

Now to your question. LaserSokrates' suggestion works, but not without losing the track artists' names. A cleaner solution would be to have separate Album Artist and Track Artist entries. LAME doesn't make a distinction between the two, though.