I like to copy my CDs to both Flac and MP3 formats, the Flacs for playing at home with Volumio, the MP3s for the car.

I have read what I can find about the EAC settings for these compression formats and realise that both require 'loading' into EAC with my chosen program. I have successfully loaded FLAC and been able to use it with EAC to produce files to my local drive. But I am having problems with LAME, my chosen MP3 encoder program, despite downloading and un-compressing it into the EAC folder, EAC can't find it! 

I have also searched the whole drive for LAME.exe without success.

What am I doing wrong ???

Click the top left dropdown, click on "compression options", and then click on the second tab (compression).

You need to define the pathway for the encoder, and if I'm not mistaken, there is only facility for one pathway at a time.

You can set up a flac encoder or an MP3 encoder to work, but it takes donkey work to switch between the two.

Yes it is the pathway I am unable to set. I have been looking for lame.exe without success.

Which version of Windows  are you using?

Where did you download Lame from?

I think you have the wrong version of Lame - you need to get a version specific to how many bits Windows is running.

I tried Sourceforge, but they only have source code, with no Windows executables.

You can get Windows executables here http://www.rarewares.org/mp3.php - http://www.rarewares.org/mp3.php

I now just need to refine the tag info that gets included.

Thanks for your help.

I use this character string %artist%\%albumtitle%\%tracknr2% - %title% in EAC Options/filename.

Chris your suggestion gave me a track filename as you specified, but I actually wanted it to be just the Track Title so I reduced it to just %title%

However I wanted the other Tags you list added to the MP3 and managed that with other settings as shown in the pics. I am still 'learning' what does what so I might still have some duplication or unwanted entries on these screens, I will refine them on future rips.

The only failures I had were the albumartist and genre tags did not fill. Not sure why.

That is not where I said you should put it.

It should be put where I said

The Command Line you have altered probably looked like this before you started

The full Command Line thing is this string

I did alter the Filename to your string and it did do as I said. I have since reset it to just %title% as in attached.

Your command line string looks very comprehensive, I will give that a go and see what it gives me.

Have you learnt these commands from some particular source?

The way I set the filename commands up came about because I spent a bit of time working out how I was going to rip my large CD collection and keep it manageable.

The string I posted that is in EAC options automatically directs things so that things occur in a logical manner.

So it goes to the location that's set, and looks for an Artist folder. If there is no folder for the Artist it creates one.

Next up it looks for an Album folder. If there is no folder for the Album it creates one.

Lastly is writes the individual track files with a 2 digit number first (01-99), inserts space/-/space, then follows up with the track Title.

I played around with a few different software media players and ended up with the rip scheme having the best results with all of them.

I switched to using dBPoweramp a long time ago.

It has a nicer, more intuitive interface, goes about its business faster than EAC, and has a whole host of other functions.

The results are the same as with EAC, but there's a lot less faffing about.

Ian

Less faffing about sounds good, I will investigate dBPoweramp. I only chose EAC as it was considered to provide a quality result, it certainly does a better job than Ashsampoo which I used before.