I'm a long-time EAC user (creating FLAC files) but new to Mareo. I'm sure that I'm making a simple mistake but have been pulling my hair out for several hours and google isn't helping...

Current EAC version is "V0.99 prebeta 4 from 23 January 2008" and version of Mareo is 6b2 (the only version that I could find). Is this a version problem? If so, any help in finding the correct versions would be appreciated.

I'm trying to configure Mareo to rip to FLAC and LAME MP3 and keep the original WAV.

EAC rips the WAV OK and calls Mareo but Mareo never seems to call the encoders. Mareo INI and LOG files below.

MAREO INI file is here:-

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PaddingZeros = 2
DeleteWavFile = FALSE
CorrectionChar = _
;
EXECUTEIF = TRUE
FINALPATH = e:\Temp Music\EAC Temp\@MP3\[ARTIST]\[ALBUM]\
FINALNAME = [TRACKPADDED] - [TITLE]
EXTENSION = mp3
ENCODEREXE = c:\Program Files\Exact Audio Copy\Lame\lame.exe
PARAMETERS = -V2 --vbr-new --ignore-tag-errors --ta "[ARTIST]" --tl "[ALBUM]" --tt "[TITLE]" --tn "[TRACK]" --ty "[YEAR]" --tg "[GENRE]" "[SOURCE]" "[DESTTMP]"
RENAME = FALSE
;
EXECUTEIF = TRUE
FINALPATH = e:\Temp Music\EAC Temp\@FLAC\[ARTIST]\[ALBUM]\
FINALNAME = [TRACKPADDED] - [TITLE]
EXTENSION = flac
ENCODEREXE = c:\Program Files\Exact Audio Copy\flac\flac.exe
PARAMETERS = -6 -V "[SOURCE]" -o "[DESTTMP]" -T artist="[ARTIST]" -T album="[ALBUM]" -T title="[TITLE]" -T tracknumber="[TRACK]" -T date="[YEAR]" -T genre="[GENRE]"
RENAME = FALSE
;
;EOF

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The paths in ENCODEREXE are correct. I've tried using putting in quotes (ie "..") but it doesn't make a difference.

The LOG file is here:-

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***********************************************************
* MAREO - Multiple Applications Runner for EAC and Others *
* Copyright 2003-2007 by Kwanbis -- Under the GPL License *
* Version 6.0b2 - Home Page at http://www.webearce.com.ar *
* Developed with Borland Delphi http://borland.com/delphi *
***********************************************************

*** Received Command Line ***

"C:\Program Files\Exact Audio Copy\mareo\mareo.exe" mareo_cw.ini "E:\Temp Music\EAC Temp\@WAV\Carrie Underwood\Carnival Ride\0tmp1!542.wav" "E:\Temp Music\EAC Temp\@WAV\Carrie Underwood\Carnival Ride\0tmp1!542.mareo" "Carrie Underwood" "Carnival Ride" "Flat On The Floor" "01" "2007" "DCountry"

*** Parsed Parameters ***

INIFILE (%1) = C:\Program Files\Exact Audio Copy\mareo\mareo_cw.ini
[SOURCE] (%2) = E:\Temp Music\EAC Temp\@WAV\Carrie Underwood\Carnival Ride\0tmp1!542.wav
[DESTTMP] (%3) = E:\Temp Music\EAC Temp\@WAV\Carrie Underwood\Carnival Ride\0tmp1!542.mareo
[ARTIST] (%4) = Carrie Underwood
[ALBUM] (%5) = Carnival Ride
[TITLE] (%6) = Flat On The Floor
[TRACK] (%7) = 1
[YEAR] (%8) = 2007
[GENRE] (%9) = DCountry

*** INI Parameters ***

Padding Zeros = 2
DeleteWavFile = FALSE
CorrectionChar = _

*** Encoder Orders Ends ***

DeleteWaveFile is FALSE.


*** DONE ***

NO errors ocurred.

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Mareo never appears to find/start any encoders.

One thing that is confusing me is that the SOURCE filename passed to Mareo is a temp filename which does not appear to exist (unless it is hidden by Windows somehow). As soon as EAC starts to read the file it creates the WAV with the final filename.

The command line options used in EAC's compression options are:

mareo_cw.ini %s %d "%a" "%g" "%t" "%n" "%y" "%m"

Any ideas or help truly appreciated. Thanks!

Chris

So posting a problem sometimes helps me to fix things myself...

In case anybody else has the same question the solution, I found, is that I shouldn't have deleted the VAFINALPATH, VAFINALNAME, CUEFINALPATH and CUEFINALNAME lines in the INI file even though I didn't think that I needed them. Putting them back in solved the problem. And obviously the file with the odd temporary name does exist!

Chris