Hi, I'm sure I'm doing something slightly wrong here. I've been using Lame 3.97 and EAC for a very long time now, having ripped hundreds of CDs. I've just got a new PC running Vista, and have just set up my EAC again, but now I can't seem to get the genre or a comment into the tags. If someone could put me out my misery and tell me where I'm going wrong then I'd be ever so grateful.

My settings are the following... perhaps I forgot how to set it up again properly. Far too many options for me!

Use external programme for compression: checked

Use file extension: .mp3

Program, including path, used for compression: C:\Program Files\Exact Audio Copy\Lame\lame.exe

Additional command line options: -V 2 --vbr-new --add-id3v2 --pad-id3v2 --ta "%a" --tt "%t" --tl "%g" --ty "%y" --tn "%n" %s %d

then, under that, I have 'Add ID3 tag' unchecked.

Under the 'Offset' tab, I have my comment in the 'Write following text into the ID3 tag comment field'

And, finally, under the 'ID3 Tag' I have the first 2 of thr 4 checked.

Thanks in advance.

The built in id3 tagger does not support custom genre tags, it uses id1.1 genre codes only it works with the grenres that are on a list on EAC.

This command would help if there is a custom genre and LAME will just leave the genre blank and encode without halting EAC.

-V 2 --vbr-new --add-id3v2 --pad-id3v2 --ignore-tag-errors --ta "%a" --tt "%t" --tg "%m" --tl "%g" --ty "%y" --tn "%n" %s %d

If you have "Add ID3 Tag" unchecked, "Construction of ID3 comment" and "ID3 Tag"-Tab will be ignored.
If you go that route I recommend the following command line:

-V2 --vbr-new --noreplaygain --add-id3v2 --pad-id3v2 --ignore-tag-errors --ta "%a" --tt "%t" --tl "%g" --ty "%y" --tn "%n" --tg "%m" --tc "Add comment here" %s %d

Note that you must choose an genre from EAC's list or an "Other" will be shown in ID3 of your mp3.


Second way:

Check "Add ID3 Tag" in EAC and use this as string:

-V2 --vbr-new --noreplaygain %s %d

You would now have to fill out the options in EAC. They won't be ignored.


As a side note: If you don't know what ReplayGain is or you don't want it/not interested, then I recommened to leave "--noreplaygain" switch ON.