I just installed EAC, FLAC and AccurateRip on my new laptop and ALMOST everything is working OK, but like a dummy I forgot to keep a copy of the command line settings I had been using for encoding into FLAC via EAC.

The string I came up with is currently:

-8 -V -T "artist=%a" -T "title=%t" -T "album=%g" -T "date=%y" -T "tracknumber=%n" -T "genre=%m" -T comment="%e" -T "comment=EAC Secure_Lossless FLAC" %s

When I look at the comments field in either of 3 tag editors after completing a rip and encode into FLAC, it shows "Track #", where # = the track number instead of "EAC Secure_Lossless FLAC".

I've tried tweaking the comment section of my command line, but cannot seem to get it to work correctly, nor can I remember how I had written it before.

Can someone please help me out with this? Almost 3 hours spent on this so far and my head hurts.

p.s. I use -8 to keep the file size down.

Thanks!

Seems like EAC is putting ID3 tags on your flacs.

I had it functioning perfectly prior to this, and the comment section showed what I wanted. Really wish I would have made a copy of that command line. I know that I am really close, most likely just a tiny change needed but nothing I have tried has worked.

Any help?

Hi, why do you use %e?

-V8 -T "artist=%a" -T "title=%t" -T "album=%g" -T "date=%y" -T "tracknumber=%n" -T "genre=%m" -T "comment=EAC Secure Lossless FLAC" %s

Actually if I knew what each of the items meant I most likely would not be having any trouble.
I love using EAC and FLAC, but am not a programmer and can't write code or anything else close to it.

I found that command string after doing quite a number of searches here on the forum. Since I could not recall what command line I was using to include the comments, I just tried the one from HERE.
I will give your submission a try, thanks!

Works perfectly now, thanks!

I'm still curious about how the track number showed up in the comment tag.

Do (did) you have "Add ID3 tag" checked?

His command line contains -T comment="%e". %e is the token for the comment specified in the Compression options "Offset" tab.

One of the options for this value is 'Write "Track <tracknumber>" into ID3 Tag comment field' (even though ID3 is not used in this instance).

I would assume that he previously used 'Write following text into ID3 Tag comment field', with the static value 'EAC Secure Lossless FLAC', and the command line:


I can only assume that, when using -T comment="%e" -T "comment=EAC Secure_Lossless FLAC", only the first switch is actioned.

Oh, right!

Thanks for the clarification.

Synthetic Soul is correct. Not sure what he said exactly, but I never use "ADD ID3 tag".

Just as the EAC token %a will return the Artist, %e will return the value of this box: