Okay, here are my own explicit instructions for setting up LAME in EAC, using both the EXE and the DLL versions. I recommend the EXE which is not only more configurable, but it gives you a cool status box as it's working.
First off:
Copy the LAME DLL and the EXE to your EAC directory
Instructions for setting up the LAME EXE:
1) In EAC hit
F11 to open
Compression Options and select the
External Compression Tab.
2) Check
Use external program for compression
3) In the pull-down box for
Parameter Passing scheme select
LAME MP3 Encoder
4) In the program path box, enter the correct path to LAME.EXE
(example: C:\EAC\lame.exe)
5) In the
Additional command line options box enter:
-V1 -q1 -h -mj -b128 -B320
(These are recommended encoding settings as per
r3mix.net)
6) In the
Bit rate box select
Variable Bitrate 128kBit/s
7) Check
Delete WAV after compression (optional)
8) Check
Add ID3 tag (recommended)
9) Check
High quality circle
10) On the
Offset tab, you can optionally check
Write following text into ID3 Tag comment field and include some text such as:
EAC - LAME
11) On the
ID3 Tag tab, check
Use ID3 V1.1 tags....., and in the
Construction of filenames from ID3 tags enter
%T - %A
Instructions for setting up the LAME DLL
1) On the
External Compression tab, UNCHECK
Use external program for compression
2) On the
Wavform tab, in the
Wave Format pull-down box select
LAME MPEG Layer-3 Encoder v3.87 DLL v1.16
3) In the
Sample Format pull-down box, select
128kBit/s VBR, 44,100Hz, Stereo
4) Check
Add ID3 tag and
Do not write WAV header to file
5) In the
File extension for headerless files enter
.mp3 (and don't forget the period in .mp3)
6) Follow the same steps for the
Offset and
ID3 Tag tabs as mentioned in the section for setting up the EXE encoder (steps 10 and 11)
7) On the
LAME DLL tab select the following options:
Output mode: Joint Stereo
Quality: High Quality
Maximum VBR bitrate: 320 kBit/s
Use VBR quality: 1
Leave
Insert CRC checksum UNCHECKED.
Check
Write Xing VBR header on VBR encoding
That's it. You can then use the
Copy Selected Track command to make the MP3s, which will be created in the directory you specified in
EAC Options on the
Directories tab.
