After a long delay. MAREO 5.0 is out. The major change is the option of defining Various Artists (V.A.) naming schemes.

• Various Artist detection and management.
• TAK pre-configuration (including tag)

I have changed version number, to reflect the new INI file. Would update the web page documentation ASAP.

http://www.webearce.com.ar/

Note, to make VA work, EAC must not "know" that it's a VA CD. So, uncheck the VA checkbox, and call the Artist: V.A., instead of various, va, etc.

The link from your website is still to 4, and the direct download link posted to another thread doesn't work!

Good news for MAREO users anyway, well done.

Mmm, maybe you need to clear your cache. Thanks for your kind words also

Nah, just me being dumb.

The November date on the containing folder confused me, but I see some files contained are dated February.

Sorry for the confusion.

I'm new to MAREO, and based on what I've read about it, it's perfect for what I want to do (rip a CD once, and encode it both to MP3 and FLAC).

So, I've downloaded mareo.rar and installed it, but it isn't working. I use EAC and LAME, WinXP SP2.
The problem is that when EAC calls MAREO, MAREO crashes.

EAC settings are as recommended:
- user defined encoder
- compressor: C:\mareo\mareo.exe
- commandline: mareo.ini %s %d "%a" "%g" "%t" "%n" %y "%m"
- Add ID3 tag unchecked

In an effort to narrow the problem down, I tried creating a .wav with EAC, and calling MAREO from a command prompt. What I've found is that
mareo mareo.ini "d:\rip\q\j.wav" "d:\rip\q\j.mp3" ar al ti tr yr g
results in a WinXP error saying that MAREO has crashed.

Actually, it doesn't seem to matter what the parameters are, as
mareo mareo.ini in.wav out.mp3 ar al ti tr yr g
results in a crash too.

If I remove the last parameter (i.e., I call mareo mareo.ini "d:\rip\q\j.wav" "d:\rip\q\j.mp3" ar al ti tr yr), there's no crash, but MAREO exits immediately without invoking LAME

This is the mareo.ini that I'm using to test things:

PaddingZeros = 2
DeleteWavFile = FALSE
CorrectionChar = _

EXECUTEIF = TRUE
FINALPATH = d:\rip\[ARTIST] - [ALBUM]\
FINALNAME = [TRACKPADDED].[TITLE]
VFINALPATH = d:\rip\VA - [ALBUM]\
VFINALNAME = [TRACKPADDED].[TITLE] ([ARTIST])
EXTENSION = mp3
ENCODEREXE = lame.exe
PARAMETERS = -V5 --vbr-new --ignore-tag-errors --ta "[ARTIST]" --tl "[ALBUM]" --tt "[TITLE]" --tn "[TRACK]" --ty "[YEAR]" --tg "[GENRE]" "[SOURCE]" "[DESTTMP]"
RENAME = TRUE

lame.exe is in c:\mareo
I've tried using the full path to mareo.ini: no difference.
I've tried using the full path to lame.exe: no difference.
I've tried adding "LogToFile = TRUE": no difference, and I can't find a logfile anywhere.

Any help would be highly appreciated...

JW

since MAREO 4.5, the command line should be

filelog screenlog mareo.ini [infile] [outfile] "[artist]" "[album]" "[title]" [track] [year] [genre]

where:

filelog = could be fon (file log on) or foff (file log off)

screenlog = could be son (screen log on) or soff (screen log off)

for example:

Fon Soff mareo.ini [infile] [outfile] "[artist]" "[album]" "[title]" [track] [year] [genre]

here is a little more explanation.

sorry i haven't been able to update the docs yet.


there is no longer need to "LogToFiel = XXX" on the ini.

Thanks for your quick reaction

With those 2 logging options added it's working

Many thanks for your help, and for making this program available. I'm sure it'll save me a lot of time in the future.

JW

No problem. MAREO is my way of just saying "thank you" to the whole HA community.

Has anyone tested EAC + Mareo on Windows Vista?

My project computer will still have XP on it, but my main PC is moving to Vista soon. Just curious.

edit: and oh, thanx kwanbis for your continued work on Mareo.. it's a lifesaving tool for my simultaneous Flac + WMA encodes!

Is there any flag that can be passed to MAREO from EAC, to tell it's a CUE image?

Hooray!

Finaly i was able to use MAREO with foobar2000!

Here's my ini (mp3+FLAC):



The trick was:
foobar2000 expects the temporary mp3 to be placed in the destination directory after encoding. If i would tell MAREO not to rename the mp3 it would be placed in the foobar2000 directory after encoding (where MAREO and all needed encoders are placed). As the naming scheme set in the ini file is the same as set in f2k MAREO is renaming the mp3 exactly as f2k expects it to be named.
So here your current manual is wrong (at least for f2k).

The important things are (thanks to sh1leshk4 in the MAREO 4 thread):
f2k will take care for the tags in the file whose extension is set in the f2k encoder settings
Renaming for all encoded files schould be set to TRUE
Naming schemes in MAREO and f2k (single tracks line) must be the same
If encoding just one file the final path (for the file whose extension is set in f2k) should already exist. Choose this path for converter output

In my ini i am using the [MYMUSIC]-parameter. After this parameter the naming scheme is identical to the one specified in f2k (under "single tracks"). So i have to tell f2k to place the output files in the [MYMUSIC]-folder if i want to convert more files at once. f2k then creates the temporary wave not directly in the [MYMUSIC]-folder but in subfolders created after f2k's "single tracks" naming scheme. MAREO then creates all temporary encoded files in the directory where mareo.exe is placed and after that puts them into the folders specified in the ini. So the mp3 gets placed where the temp wav is, f2k finds them, deletes the wav and adds tags to the mp3.

Hooray indeed. I\'ve also successfully ripped with MAREO using 0.9.4, based on sh1leshk4\'s and start78\'s tips. Thanks, you guys, and thanks to kwanbis as always.

What i would like to try is to rip to an image lossless file (with embedded cuesheet) and individual lossy files ala REACT. Is this possible with foobar? Has anyone tried this? Does anyone have ideas on how one would go about it? Appreciate any sort of input.

Hi,

Does anyone know how to get FLAC --replay-gain album gain working with MAREO? From what I can gather to get album gain to work flac needs to be run once with all of the flac files as source files, so that it can calculate the album peak gain. Therefore I really only need to run FLAC with --replay-gain once - when all of the flac files have been encoded. But how do I instruct MAREO to do this?

I have managed to get this working with VorbisGain.exe using EXECUTEIF = [1] = [TRACK] where [1] refers to the 10th input from EAC %x which signifies the last album track. This is easy because VorbisGain has it's own section as a post-processor. However there is no such option for FLAC. Maybe I could re-run FLAC as a post-processor with -replay-gain and without re-encoding, but I don't know if it's possible.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Is there a way of using MAREO and EAC to perform 2 simultaneous compression tasks when using a dual core CPU? Foobar for example can transcode 2 files at the same time when using the convert feature.

Tim

Then why don't u use f2k for ripping? It has the same secure ripping features as EAC...

I don't think it will use the multi-threaded option as control is passed over to Mareo to perform the actual encoding. If you set the option in EAC to use 2 simu;taneous threads, as soon as the command prompt window opens for the second instance of mareo it bombs out.

Tim

Foff Soff mareo.ini ... ?

I thought that might have something to do with it, I'm wondering whether Mareo or EAC will set the processor affinity field though.

I'll try it once I've finished restoring Active Directory on my server which threw a hissy fit last night.

Tim

Hi kwanbis.
Just came across your program on Thursday and was very excited. I want to use EAC to Rip to FLAC and LAME for my iPod. It looked pretty easy to setup, but noooo. I have been working it all this time only to find that the documentation that came with it, isn't correct. I really try to exaust all possible mistakes before requestiog help, but with this new info and the fact that I am burnt-out, I have deceided to see if you could straighten me out.

I tried the above change for EAC and still am having problems. I have tried to use LAME and flac seperatly on only one song, but MAREO rejects everything. It also doesn't produce any error logs or output to the screen (other than a brief dos window flash) so all I have is the EAC log which I am attaching.

Can you show me what I am doing wrong or just send me the ini file that I would need to accomplish these conversions? I am running WinME on an 1GHz Athlon, 1MB RAM, 160 GB and 80 GB HD's. Here are my files:

; ****************************************************************************************************
**************
; ******* MAREO: Multiple Applications Runner for EAC and Others - by Kwanbis - Open Source GPL Licensed ***********
; ****************************************************************************************************
**************

; ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
; NUMBER OF ZEROS TO PAD THE TRACK NUMBER (0 to disable)
; ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PaddingZeros = 2

; ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
; IS MAREO REQUIRED TO DELETE THE WAV FILE AFTER ENCODING (TRUE) OR THE CD RIPPER DOES (FALSE)?
; ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DeleteWavFile = FALSE

; ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
; What char would be used to replace forbiden chars?
; ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
CorrectionChar = _

LogToScreen = TRUE
LogToFile =false

; ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
; FLAC: most supported lossless encoder: http://flac.sourceforge.net/
; ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
EXECUTEIF = TRUE
FINALPATH = c:\MuTest\[ARTIST] - [ALBUM]\
FINALNAME = [TRACKpadded] - [TITLE]
EXTENSION = flac
ENCODEREXE = c:\av\eac\flac.exe
PARAMETERS = -8 -V "[SOURCE]" -o "[DESTTMP]" -T artist="[ARTIST]" -T album="[ALBUM]" -T title="[TITLE]" -T tracknumber="[TRACK]" -T date="[YEAR]" -T genre="[GENRE]"
;PARAMETERS = -8 -V -T "artist=[ARTIST]" -T "title=[TITLE]" -T "album=[ALBUM]" -T "date=[YEAR]" -T "tracknumber=[TRACK]" -T "genre=[GENRE]" "[SOURCE]"
RENAME = true

; EOF
**********************************

EAC extraction logfile from 16. April 2007, 16:47 for CD
David Crosby / If I Could Only Remember My Name

Used drive : Memorex 52MAXX 2452AJ Adapter: 0 ID: 1
Read mode : Secure with NO C2, accurate stream, disable cache
Read offset correction : 0
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No

Used output format : C:\AV\EAC\mareo.exe (User Defined Encoder)
320 kBit/s
Additional command line options : mareo.ini %s %d "%a" "%g" "%t" "%n" %y "%m"

Other options :
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : No
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : Yes
Installed external ASPI interface


Track 9
Filename C:\MusicTest\David Crosby - If I Could Only Remember My Name\09 - David Crosby - I'd Swear There Was Somebody Here.wav

Peak level 75.7 %
Track quality 100.0 %
Copy CRC 37772E8E
Copy OK

No errors occured


End of status report

------------------------------------------------------------

EAC extraction logfile from 16. April 2007, 18:04 for CD
David Crosby / If I Could Only Remember My Name

Used drive : Memorex 52MAXX 2452AJ Adapter: 0 ID: 1
Read mode : Secure with NO C2, accurate stream, disable cache
Read offset correction : 0
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No

Used output format : C:\AV\EAC\mareo.exe (User Defined Encoder)
320 kBit/s
Additional command line options : Fon Son mareo.ini [infile] [outfile] "[artist]" "[album]" "[title]" [track] [year] [genre]

Other options :
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : No
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : Yes
Installed external ASPI interface


Track 9
Filename C:\MusicTest\David Crosby - If I Could Only Remember My Name\09 - David Crosby - I'd Swear There Was Somebody Here.wav

Peak level 75.7 %
Track quality 100.0 %
Copy CRC 37772E8E
Copy OK

No errors occured


End of status report
***********************************************

The external compressor returned an error!

Options : Fon Son mareo.ini [infile] [outfile] "[artist]" "[album]" [track] [yesr] genre]

File : C:\MusicTest\David Crosby - If I could only Remember My Name\09 - David Crosby - I'd Swear There Was Somebody Here.wav

*******************************

[color=#FF0000]HELP ,
Bilbo

OK, I've Spent all day trying to get this to work, I finally give up. I am trying to use EAC and Mareo to make both FLAC and MP3 files. I want the Lame V0 MP3s under C:\Music\MP3\Artist\Album and the FLACS at 5 quality under C:\Music\FLAC\Artist\Album. I want the filenames to be "Artist (Album) Song." I realize I don't have anything close to that for the filename setting in the ini but I was going to keep the defaults until I got it to at least encode something!

Here are my settings, can someone please tell me where I am going wrong?

mareo.ini

PaddingZeros = 1
DeleteWavFile = FALSE
CorrectionChar = _

EXECUTEIF = TRUE
FINALPATH = C:\Music\MP3\[ARTIST]\[ALBUM]\
FINALNAME = [TRACKPADDED]. [TITLE]
VFINALPATH = C:\Music\MP3\[ARTIST]\[ALBUM]\
VFINALNAME = [TRACKPADDED]. [TITLE] ([ARTIST])
EXTENSION = mp3
ENCODEREXE = C:\eac095pb4\lame397\lame.exe
PARAMETERS = -V0 --vbr-new --ignore-tag-errors --ta "[ARTIST]" --tl "[ALBUM]" --tt "[TITLE]" --tn "[TRACK]" --ty "[YEAR]" --tg "[GENRE]" "[SOURCE]" "[DESTTMP]"
RENAME = TRUE

EXECUTEIF = TRUE
FINALPATH = C:\Music\FLAC\[ARTIST]\[ALBUM]\
FINALNAME = [TRACKPADDED]. [TITLE]
VFINALPATH = C:\Music\MP3\[ARTIST]\[ALBUM]\
VFINALNAME = [TRACKPADDED]. [TITLE] ([ARTIST])
EXTENSION = flac
ENCODEREXE = C:\FLAC\flac.exe
PARAMETERS = -5 "[SOURCE]" -o "[DESTTMP]" -T artist="[ARTIST]" -T album="[ALBUM]" -T title="[TITLE]" -T tracknumber="[TRACK]" -T date="[YEAR]" -T genre="[GENRE]"
RENAME = TRUE

EAC Settings


Filename: %A\%C\%A (%C) %N
Directory: C:\Music
Use file extension: .xxx
Nothing else checked on that screen...

Additional command line options: I've tried a bunch of different things after reading posts, here are some things I've tried:
Fon Soff mareo.ini [infile] [outfile] "[artist]" "[album]" "[title]" [track] [year] [genre]
fon son mareo.ini C:\Music\%A\%C\ C\Music\Temp\ "%A" "%C" "%T" %N %Y "%B"
mareo.ini C:\Music\%A\%C\ C\Music\Temp\ "%A" "%C" "%T" %N %Y "%B"

And lots of variations on those....

Could someone please let me know what settings I should use?

FINALNAME = [ARTIST] ([ALBUM]) [TRACKPADDED]. [TITLE]

Fon Soff mareo.ini %s "%a" "%g" "%t" "%n" %y "%m"

think that would do.

I haven't checked through all your folders but the command line should be:

fon soff mareo.ini %s %d "%a" "%g" "%t" "%n" %y "%m"

The filename and folder name in the base EAC tab don't really have any effect as the settings in mareo.ini override those. The only thing they do affect is where the files are initially ripped to. For all my files the final desitinations are all on network shares, but the wav files are originally extracted to a local hard drive as per the "Directories" tab in EAC options.

You need to set "soff" on the command line if you want to be able to run multiple simultaneous compression threads with CPUs that have multiple cores.

Tim

new version of MAREO does not uses %d

When did it change? I currently still have %d in my command line and have a recent version of MAREO installed and have had no problem. Maybe I'm running a slightly earlier version.

Tim

I must not have the new version, without the %d all my names were off one level.

Funny because I just downloaded it today. I can't find anywhere to see what version I have.

Oh yeah, and thank you for the help! It looks like everything is working great now.

Hi kwanbis,

I went to your site to download Mareo 5, but I did not see a download link there. Do you still have it available? If so, where?

Thanks!

MAREO 6 is coming this weekend ... if you can wait, better ... if not, i could send it.

Hi kwanbis,

Yes, I can wait for MAREO 6 this weekend. Someone named PeteF was trying to use NeroAacEnc and NeroAacTag with CDex and the only thing that I could come up with, was to use MAREO, because it can do post encoding processing (NeroAacTag).

So, will MAREO be able to do this in CDex?

Thanks for your fine work!


Edit: Topic

yes, it can.

Hi Kwanbis,

Great work on MAREO, I have started using it recently and am relatively new to all this, so it is taking me a while (I don't have a programming background so things take a little longer...)

Just wondered how development of MAREO 6 is going and whether or not you or someone else will be updating your website with all the changes and some more documentation on how to use MAREO? Will there be documentation on ripping to image's with cue sheets and some more explanation on how to use WAPET as well? I am finding information on how to set this up in the .ini file disparate and hard to come by.

I have not played around enough and don't have a good enough grasp of things to ask any specific questions yet, but I am sure other users are in the same boat...

Thanks for your work on this, it has the potential to make ripping my collection alot easier!

i just came from a trip to canada, so i have to catch up a little, my idea is to have it ASAP. Maybe this weekend.

I have done some more fiddling around with MAREO 5 and have hit a bit of a stumbling block.

I am ripping using EAC and in the external compression options I am using the following:

Fon Soff mareo.ini %s %d "%a" "%g" "%t" "%n" %y "%m"

I want to rip to WavPack with APEv2 tags and MP3's with ID3v2 tags (using LAME). I understand that wapet must be used to tag WavPack files.

mareo.exe is located at "D:\Exact Audio Copy\Encoders\mareo.exe.exe" (Version 5.0)
wavpack.exe is located at "D:\Exact Audio Copy\Encoders\wavpack.exe" (Version 4.41)
wapet.exe is located at "D:\Exact Audio Copy\Encoders\wapet.exe" (Version 0.6)
lame.exe is located at "D:\Exact Audio Copy\Encoders\lame.exe" (Version 3.97)

I want to have the following folder structure:

My Music\MP3\Artist\Album (For the resulting MP3's)
My Music\WavPack\Artist\Album (For the resulting WV's)

And I want the filenames to be:

XX Trackname (e.g. 02 Never Be Lonely)

My question is:

What would my mareo.ini have to be to achieve my desired result?

I am not a programmer at all and am having real issues getting this to work! Any help would be greatly appreciated.

FINALPATH = [PERSONAL]\My Music\MP3\[ARTIST]\[ALBUM]\
FINALPATH = [PERSONAL]\My Music\WavPack\[ARTIST]\[ALBUM]\

I'm planning to use mareo and foobar.
My process is as follows:
1 get tracks in a lossless + cue file. Run albumgain
2 get album art with album art downloader
3 Using foobar's coverter, split those into smaller tracks in lossless (flac) and lossy (ogg). They go to corresponding dirs.

Can mareo move the album art as well (even if there's folder.jpg and back.jpg)? That'd be ideal.

*Bump* (just to enable email notification)

Hi,

I've just updated my Mareo to the latest one on the website (5 I assume as 6 does not appear to have been released yet) and it just crashes now.

I was using a much older version with EAC and have seen the two new command line options required since 4.5.

I have tried running Mareo directly from the command line but it still crashes. I have also used a completely fresh install and ini file with no luck.

This is my test command line:

C:\razor\mareo>mareo Foff Soff mareo.ini ".\rip.wav" ".\rip.flac" "artist" "album" "title" tr yr ge

Am I doing something very stupid?

Many thanks,

Jez

did you check the mareo.x.log file?

Next week, i'm having surgery, so i would have to stay at home for 4 days.

I have decided to finish MAREO6, and update the documentation.

MAREO6 would include CUE support.

edit: I use this line to test MAREO
mareo.exe FON SON mareo.ini "original.wav" "original.mp3" "Artist" "Album ..." "Title" 1 1972 "Rock" UNO DOS TRES CUATRO

Can I use MAREO 5 to create WMA files? I'm running it from EAC
Thanks
Stuart

I can't seem to DL Mareo 5.0 or 6.0 anywhere, can someone help me out?

where it says DOWNLOAD on this post:

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....st&p=534527

Thanks! I'll move focus on that thread now...