Hi there, I've been using EAC for a bit now to rip my CDs to mp3 and flac format and recently discovered that I could do both with MAREO. I've followed the instructions on http://www.webearce.com.ar/ to the letter but still cannot even get EAC to get MAREO to print a log file of the error.

This is what my mareo.ini file looks like:


PaddingZeros = 2
LogToScreen = TRUE
LogToFile = TRUE
DeleteWavFile = FALSE
CorrectionChar = _

; -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
; MP3 LAME: best MP3 encoder: http://www.rarewares.org/mp3.html
; -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
EXECUTEIF = TRUE
FINALPATH = E:\My Music\EAC\[ARTIST]\[ALBUM]\
FINALNAME = [TRACKPADDED] [TITLE]
VFINALPATH = E:\My Music\EAC\Compilations\[ALBUM]\
VFINALNAME = [TRACKPADDED] [TITLE]
EXTENSION = mp3
ENCODEREXE = C:\Program Files\LAME\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

; -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
; FLAC: most supported lossless encoder: http://flac.sourceforge.net/
; -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
EXECUTEIF = TRUE
FINALPATH = E:\My Music\EAC\[ARTIST]\[ALBUM]\
FINALNAME = [TRACKPADDED] [TITLE]
VFINALPATH = E:\My Music\EAC\Compilations\[ALBUM]\
VFINALNAME = [TRACKPADDED] [TITLE]
EXTENSION = flac
ENCODEREXE = C:\Program Files\FLAC\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]"
RENAME = TRUE


The parameters line is in fact 1 long line, it's just been word-wrapped, so don't think that's the problem.

Posted is also what my EAC external compression options looks like. If the picture isn't working, here's the link: http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1213/116324...eb6299c23_o.jpg





If anyone can see any reason why it shouldn't be working please say, but I can't see what's wrong. Many thanks for any help.

Well I've finally got MAREO working, I found that in needed to add the "fon son" parameters before the mareo.ini in the EAC commandling parameters section, and then take out the LogToScreen and LogToFile parameters out of the ini file itself. This was found here.

However I now have a couple more questions.

My ini file remains unchanged apart from the removal of the LogToXXX parameters I mentioned above, and so mentions nothing about affecting the files with ReplayGain however when MAREO runs the lame.exe after the file has been created it is processed with ReplayGain, how do I stop this? See edit2...

Also, It adds another unspecified ID3 tag known to me as ENCODERSETTINGS which is the name given to it in Mp3tag which I also don't want there. How do I remove that tag?

Finally I was wondering if there was a way to add the DISCNUMBER tag as well, or do I have to edit that in Mp3tag because I know that lame.exe has some limitations and was wondering if that was one of them?

Finally+1, for the FLAC encoder options, is the "-o" parameter needed (without the quotation marks of course", and if so what is it for, because I read in the FLAC documentation (here) that it was for single file encoding only.

Slightly off-topic I know, but does anyone know if MAREO 6 is due to be released any time soon? It's only that kwanbis said it'd be out late-May/early-June according to this post.

Sorry for the huge rantings, I'm a bit OCD and everything has to be just-so.

Thanks, mm

edit: I've noticed that the ReplayGain problem isn't replicated in the log file that is produced, but only in the LogToScreen dialogue, so could it be that the file isn't actually being processed by ReplayGain but just being analysed?

edit2: On closer inspection of the LAME documentation, I've discovered that it is only a ReplayGain analysis, and I've also confirmed this by doing a rip with my EAC+LAME settings compared to my EAC+MAREO+LAME settings and the output files are byte identical (according to the values given by Windows Explorer). A problem solved.