You're welcome!
One thing which the EAC Quickstart guide lightly
brushes on is the command-line FLAC and EAC encoders.
These may seem a bit obscure, but with
command-line switches you can do some incredibly
powerful things and have a dramatic effect on the
sound in just one step!
The quickstart's recommendations should be OK.
I've played around with mine to use the following:
FLAC:
"-8 -V --replay-gain -T "artist=%a" -T "title=%t"
-T "album=%g" -T "genre=%m" %s"
This says:
- use maximum compression, 8 on a scale of 0 to 8.
This is very processor-intensive though.
- verify the process
- add ReplayGain data
- add the artist, title, album and genre tags
see
http://flac.sourceforge.net/documentation.html#format
for all the switches, but don't get too bogged
down with it. Just know they're there, and that
there's lots of them.
MP3:
This one's tougher. There are even more switches
and choosing them will have a much greater impact
on the sound because you're actually throwing away
sound data.
Since I only use MP3s in my car, played over a
PocketPC using an FM radio link, quality isn't
that important to me but file size is.
Based on recommendations here:
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=28124
I chose:
"-V 6 --vbr-new --id3v2-only --pad-id3v2 --ta "%a"
--tt "%t" --tl "%g" %s %d"
This says:
- variable bit rate, VBR, for quality vs. filesize
- compression level 6 using a "vbr new" preset to
achieve an average bitrate of 115. This makes
files about the same size as 128 kbps constant bit
rate (CBR) files but with better quality.
- use ID3v2 tags only so that I can have tags
greater than 30 characters
- add artist, title and genre tags. I don't use
Album tags here because I don't ever sort or play
by album on the PocketPC.
rick's cafe wrote:
> Mark .. once again .. many thanks for the
explaination which I found
> very helpful...
>
>
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