I just downloaded fn2k .9 and I have a couple of questions on converting.

Which version of Lame does it use? Does it come with one or do I just put lame somewhere fb2k can find it?

Is there any way to have fb2k automatically delete the source files after encoding to mp3?

Don't know about the last question, but I'm pretty sure fb2k does not come with its own version of LAME, and you should just put your preferred LAME executable where foobar2000 can find it (either in the foobar2000 program directory, or I think you'll be asked to located lame.exe when you first try to convert something, too).

yeah, it asked me to locate it, easy as pie. I couldn't find a way to make it automatically delete the source files, but after it was done encoding I noticed all the source files were still listed in foobar, so I just selected them all and chose delete. Not as elegant, but it works.

I also would be interested in having foobar2000 automatically delete the source files after sucessfully converting them, but this seems not possible with the current version.

The alternatives are:

• dbpoweramp music converter: I'm not sure of the method used by dmc. IIRC some files where not bit identical to foobar2000 encodes, when I was testing this. Do some tests yourself, for the source & target codecs you use.
• speek's encoder frontends: some have the option to delete source, eg: the flac encoder gui. Caveat: these apps are not maintained anymore.

However, I'm still using foobar2000 to convert my files, because it supports tags better when converting, and I trust the quality of foobar2000 (with the help of its user community) more.

Maybe this works: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....showtopic=30477

In Linux the command after the double ampersand will only be executed if the frist one returns a success code, but I still can't be bothered to test it.

I think you'll need to run it via cmd for that to work, so something like

could work.