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--- cd [2026/01/07 10:05] – [FLAC and MP3 via EAC Exact Audio Copy] dblume
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 ===== FLAC and MP3 via EAC Exact Audio Copy =====
+(Andre Wiethoff, the author of EAC also makes [[https://www.easyaudiocopy.com/faq.htm|Easy Audio Copy]], and games like [[https://puzzlesoftheday.com/en/slitherlink|Slitherlink]].)
 [[https://groups.io/g/ExactAudioCopy/message/29251|EAC can be used to rip to lossless WAV, convert to lossless FLAC, and also convert to MP3 in "one pass"]] (screenshots of preferences tabs).
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     - ''FLAC\%artist%\%albumtitle%\%tracknr2% - %artist% - %title%''
     - ''FLAC\Various Artists\%albumtitle%\%tracknr2% - %artist% - %title%''
-    - (Similar for the secondary names, but change/remove FLAC)
+    - (Similar for the "Additional naming scheme", but change/remove FLAC)
-  - Secondary Compression Options
+  - External Compression Options (FLAC here)
-    - User Defined Encoder (FLAC here)
+    - User Defined Encoder
     - .flac
     - \Flac\flac.exe
     - Additional command-line options: ''<nowiki>-8 -V -T "ARTIST=%artist%" -T "TITLE=%title%" -T "ALBUM=%albumtitle%" -T "DATE=%year%" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%tracknr%" -T "TRACKTOTAL=%numtracks%" -T "GENRE=%genre%" -T "PERFORMER=%albuminterpret%" -T "COMPOSER=%composer%" -T "ALBUMARTIST=%albumartist%" -T "DISCNUMBER=%cdnumber%" -T "DISCTOTAL=%totalcds%" -T "COMMENT=%comment%" %source% -o %dest%</nowiki>''
       - Seems like we should prefer [[https://hydrogenaudio.org/index.php/topic,91496.msg773857.html|TRACKTOTAL to TOTALTRACKS and DISCTOTAL to TOTALDISCS]].
-  - Compression Options (MP3 here)
+  - Additional External Compression Options (MP3 here)
+    - User Defined Encoder
     - [[https://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=EAC_and_Lame|tick "Add ID3 tag"]]
-    - Consider adding "Additional command line options" ''-V2 %source% %dest%''
+    - Consider adding "Additional command line options" ''-p -h -V2 %source% %dest%''
-      - "-V2" means [[https://svn.code.sf.net/p/lame/svn/trunk/lame/USAGE|Variable Bitrate of about 190Kbps]], so maybe not what we want.
+      - "-V2" means Variable Bitrate of about 190Kbps ([[https://svn.code.sf.net/p/lame/svn/trunk/lame/USAGE|usage docs]]), seems like a good compromise.
-      - Test the decoder to see what parameters are sent.
+      - [[https://hydrogenaudio.org/index.php/topic,51255.msg459515.html#msg459515|Here's a nice graph of size vs. quality]].
+      - Test the decoder to see what parameters are sent. [[https://groups.io/g/ExactAudioCopy/topic/eac_w_lame_exe_additional/78518468|The EAC author says how additional parameters get accounted.]]
 Here's [[https://groups.io/g/ExactAudioCopy/message/29260|a recommendation to write a huge FLAC file for the whole album with embedded cue sheet, metadata and album art, from which cuetools or Foobar2k could be used to bulk-convert to MP3s later]] (click "show quoted text" too).