Hi all,

I'm the process of updating my EAC from 0.95b3 to b4 and LAME 3.96 to 3.97 but I've heard that the parameters changed. Now I'm ripping at 192kbps with the parameters EAC provided (--alt-preset I guess?). Two questions:

- does 3.97 improve over 3.96 at this bitrate?
- is it wise to update my parameters, or wouldn't it have any gain? (I want to keep the very same quality/size compression) And, is there any detailed info on converting old parameters to the new one.

Thanks, if you decide to help this newbie.

It would be useful if you posted the parameters...

Hydrogenaudio Wiki

If your target is around 192 Kbps, then I would use -V2 --vbr-new, which will average around 190 Kbps VBR.

Thanks all,

I currently have:


so, as per wiki, I'm about to change this to:



However, I've read about some artifacts from "--vbr-new" above "--vbr", is this correct? I don't care about speed so I never used -fast preset, but now --vbr-new seems to output higher quality anyway, right?

correct. --vbr-new is preferred for quality, and also happens to be faster.

Thanks, all I needed to know.

Hi there!

I'm not sure where to ask, so I'm gonna raise this thread from the dead

Sometimes I use foobar2000 for conversion and ripping (for my portable) with the recommended settings for EAC:

But do this parameters also apply to f2k? Are the ID3 parameters neccessary or does (foobar) LAME add tags automatically?

I often had errors with this settings, especially the "Conversion failed: Object not found" error (e.g. if some tags are not present - what sometimes is a good thing to know about). The only thing I want is an output file with best VBR quality and all ID3v2 tags available.

Besides, could somebody explain the above settings? I found some parameters on the lame HP, but I still don't know what "%t" or "%m" stands for and how %s and %d are used.

Thanks.

You don't need to use that command line for foobar2000. foobar can add track tags for you, just make sure that you have the proper version of ID3 selected. foobar2000 will select ID3v2.4 by default and I have found support for that to still be buggy. It has options for using ID3v2.3 though, I think you can even use v2.3+1.1 (I don't remember though, don't have access to foobar2000 right now). Simply change the tag settings and then use the default visual slider for selecting your Lame setting.

You don't need to use that command line for EAC either. EAC can add track tags as well. -V0 %s %d is all that's necessary.