NEWBIE QUESTION:


I see that most of you use something between:

High bitrate VBR: -V 0 --vbr-new

and

High bitrate VBR: -V 2 --vbr-new

My question is, how in the world do I specify one of these settings in EAC? Looks like some may be under "Compression Options" on the "LAME DLL" tab - but they don't all seem to be there...

Please help

refer to the pinned thread "List of recommended LAME settings" at the top of this forum ...[link]
or the Hydrogenaudio Wiki ...[link]

Great. Thank you.

I think I have done it correctly.

In the "External Compression" tab, I have entered the following line into the "Additional Command Line Options":

-V 0 --vbr-new --add-id3v2 --pad-id3v2 --ta "%a" --tt "%t" --tl "%g" --ty "%y" --tn "%n" %s %d

And I have unchecked "Add ID3 tag".

I think I understand the "-V 0 --vbr-new" portion - but why am I unchecking "Add ID3 tag" and then manually adding those tags via the command line? Also, do I want both sets of tags (v1 & v2) or just the latest version 2? Why?

Also, I'm guessing that when using the command line option it doesn't matter what my "Bit Rate" on the "external compression" tab is set at - is that correct?

Thanks so much for your help.

Keith

Remember those links? This is written right below the EAC+LAME setup instructions in the first one:



ID3v1 tags are very limited compared to newer tagging systems . But it doesn't hurt to keep them around for compatibility's sake. Some hard/soft -ware still rely on them.

Thanks Cosmo. That helps a lot. I think I'm ready to roll.

I appreciate your assistance.