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  <font style="color:green">'''--quality 6'''</font> %s
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'''APEv2 tag:'''
 
'''APEv2 tag:'''
  
  <font style="color:green">'''--quality 6'''</font> --artist "%a" --title "%t" --album "%g" --year "%y" --track "%n" --genre "%m" %s
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  <font style="color:green">'''--quality 6'''</font> --album "%albumtitle%" --tag "Album artist=%albumartist%" --year "%year%" --genre "%genre%" --comment "%comment%" --tag "Disc=%cdnumber%/%totalcds%" --track "%tracknr%/%numtracks%" --title "%title%" --artist "%artist%" --composer "%composer%" %source% %dest%
  
 
<font style="color:green">'''Note:''' If you wanted to change the quality setting the green portion is what you would substitute with the new setting e.g. --quality 10 or --quality 4.</font>
 
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<center>[[Image:EAC_MPC.png|frame|center|Musepack configured with APEv2 tagging]]</center>
 
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==Addtional Reading==
 
==Addtional Reading==

Revision as of 19:57, 1 August 2016

Important note

This guide is in need of an update, because in EAC 1.0 beta 2, the replacement strings changed. For example:

  • "%s" is now "%source%"
  • "%d" is now "%dest%"
  • "%a" is now "%artist%"

See the full list in the EAC FAQ or in the EAC Compression Options guide.

Software Needed

Installation

Note: This guide assumes that EAC is has been configured for secure ripping, if not please follow this guide.

  • Unzip the chosen musepack version into the same directory that EAC is in.


Configuration

  • Open EAC and insert a CD into the drive.
  • Click the EAC menu and select Compression Options.
  • Click the External Compression Tab, and put a check box in use external program for compression.
  • Change Parameter Passing Scheme to User Defined Encoder.
  • Change Use file extension to .mpc.
  • Click the Browse button and locate the MPPENC.EXE that you unzipped earlier.
  • Remove the ticks from Use CRC check, Add ID3 tag and check for external programs return code.
  • In the Addtional command line options box, copy and paste one of the below strings based on the Tag you would prefer.

No Tags:

--quality 6 %source% %dest% 

APEv2 tag:

--quality 6 --album "%albumtitle%" --tag "Album artist=%albumartist%" --year "%year%" --genre "%genre%" --comment "%comment%" --tag "Disc=%cdnumber%/%totalcds%" --track "%tracknr%/%numtracks%" --title "%title%" --artist "%artist%" --composer "%composer%" %source% %dest%

Note: If you wanted to change the quality setting the green portion is what you would substitute with the new setting e.g. --quality 10 or --quality 4.

  • Do not worry what bit rate is shown in the bit rate drop down box, this will be ignored.


Musepack configured with APEv2 tagging

Addtional Reading