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rhys
Background
I have configured EAC to rip and compress and image with FLAC.


Current switches
In the EAC compresison options, on the external compression tab, I currently us the following additional command line options:

QUOTE
-6 -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 Mode)" %s


These switches are not achieving what I want, and I hoping someone can help me to understand and use the correct switches.

What I would like...
1. I want the original WAV file to be deleted after the external FLAC compression has finished. I currently have the 'delete wav after compression' tickbox checked, but it obviously doesn't effect external compression in FLAC. So which switch should I use in order to do this properly?
2. I also only want FLAC to give the resulting FLAC file a filename and ID3v2 tag consisting of 'Artist name - Year - Album name'. How can I do this by tweaking the above switches?

I look forward to your responses. Thanks.
Synthetic Soul
1. Does this checkbox not work? It should do. You could add --delete-input-file to your command line, but I would try to let EAC deal with it, if you can.
2. Firstly, you are not using ID3v2 but Vorbis tags, which is the recommended standard to use. Secondly, "I also only want FLAC to give the resulting FLAC file a filename and ID3v2 tag consisting of 'Artist name - Year - Album name'." does not make sense. You should be setting tags using something like this:

CODE
-6 -V -T "artist=%a"  -T "album=%g" -T "date=%y" -T "genre=%m"  -T comment="%e" -T "comment=EAC (Secure Mode)" %s

Note the removal of the track-level tags "title" and "tracknumber" (irrelevant to an image).

You should be able to set the filename manually, if you select "Ask every time" in EAC Options > Directories.

NB: You cannot use -o "%a - %y - %g" in your command line, in case the values contain illegal filename characters.



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