I have finally discovered that Exact Audio Copy and LAME are the mp3 encoding dream team but I'm having trouble getting it to work right. EAC seems to be configured OK, but I start to have problems when using lame.exe to encode.
I have d:\My Media\Music set up as my default directory and encoded songs should go to subdirectories Artist\CD Title (%A\%L\%T) I'd like to use %N for the track number but I guess thats broken in .9b6. I'm using lame.exe (have tried 3.85 and 3.86)instead of lame.dll because I am encoding VBR and that is also broken in the dll.
I have EAC configured to use the LAME parameter scheme and use the command line options -V1 -mj -h -b128 -q1
1) Rip goes fine but when LAME starts to encode I get multiple 'reservoir error' and then 'MAX_HEADER_BUF' (if I remember correctly) errors. When the file is complete lame.exe crashes with an app error.
2) Instead of the files being named correctly and going to the proper subdirectory they end up in d:\My Media\Songs titled something like temp!)(.mp3
The resulting mp3 sounds ok until I get to the point (I'm guessing) where the first bit reservoir error occurred. Then its all scrambled. I'm guessing the filename/location may be wrong because lame.exe crashes before it can complete because the wav file is also not being deleted as I have EAC configured to do.
BTW, I'm using Windows 2000 700e @ 933 256MB RAM.
I have d:\My Media\Music set up as my default directory and encoded songs should go to subdirectories Artist\CD Title (%A\%L\%T) I'd like to use %N for the track number but I guess thats broken in .9b6. I'm using lame.exe (have tried 3.85 and 3.86)instead of lame.dll because I am encoding VBR and that is also broken in the dll.
I have EAC configured to use the LAME parameter scheme and use the command line options -V1 -mj -h -b128 -q1
1) Rip goes fine but when LAME starts to encode I get multiple 'reservoir error' and then 'MAX_HEADER_BUF' (if I remember correctly) errors. When the file is complete lame.exe crashes with an app error.
2) Instead of the files being named correctly and going to the proper subdirectory they end up in d:\My Media\Songs titled something like temp!)(.mp3
The resulting mp3 sounds ok until I get to the point (I'm guessing) where the first bit reservoir error occurred. Then its all scrambled. I'm guessing the filename/location may be wrong because lame.exe crashes before it can complete because the wav file is also not being deleted as I have EAC configured to do.
BTW, I'm using Windows 2000 700e @ 933 256MB RAM.
