EAC and Monkey's Audio

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

• Exact Audio Copy
• Monkey's Audio 3.99F
• wapet.exe

Installation

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

• Install Monkey's Audio using the default location.
• Unzip wapet.zip into the Exact Audio Copy directory

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 .ape if not already that.
• Click the Browse button and locate the wapet.exe.
• 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 the string below.

APEv2 Tag:

%d -t "Artist=%a" -t "Title=%t" -t "Album=%g" -t "Year=%y" -t "Track=%n" -t "Genre=%m" "C:\Program Files\Monkey's Audio\MAC.exe"
%s %d -c2000

Note 1: This needs to point to where the MAC.exe is located and please ensure that " " is around the full location.

Note 2: Alter this switch for the desired compression mode

-c1000	Fast
-c2000	Normal
-c3000	High
-c4000	Extra High
-c5000	Insane

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

Monkey's Audio configured with tagging support

Addtional Reading

• Monkey's Audio
• Exact Audio Copy
• About Lossless Compression