Hey all,

Just curious about the new LAME DLL tab in the latest version of EAC. It seems to add some options that allow you to do VBR encoding and specify your quality without having to look up parameters or type anything into the "Additional command line options" box in the "external compression" tab in the compression options.

I tried this out, setting LAME MP3 ENCODER as my parameter parsing scheme, set the bitrate to 192 and high quality on the bottom, and pointed the program to my LAME .exe in the EAC directory.

I made sure that VBR quality was set to "2" and max bitrate used for VBR in the LAME DLL tab was set to "320".

However, when I tried out these new settings, the LAME encoder simply used what I had set on the "external compression" tab. It ended up using high quality, at 192, no VBR, in spite of the additional options I set up in the "LAME DLL" tab (which I don't recall being in early versions of EAC).

Am I doing something wrong, or is this feature simply not supported yet? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

You have to uncheck "Use external program for compression" in the External Compression tab and select the Lame DLL as the wave format in the Waveform tab.

That said, I'd still use Lame.exe and not the dll unless you can verify that the dll can give you the same thing. Maybe I'm just being paranoid about the dll options available in EAC.

Greynol,

THANKS for the advice, I'll try it out and see what it gives me. EAC seems a quirky program - you'd think you just specify some options it would override your initial settings and use it's own settings but it never seems to be that simple! Thanks again

...but that's exactly the problem you'll have whenever there are settings that override others. It would be nice if the options in the DLL tab were grayed-out like they are on the Waveform tab when the external compression option is selected, though.