EAC and Monkey's Audio: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 20:45, 1 August 2016

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

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 in "Monkey's Audio" file folder the MAC.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:

%source% %dest% -c2000 -t "Artist=%artist%" -t "Title=%title%" -t "Album=%albumtitle%" -t "Year=%year%" -t "Track=%tracknr%" -t "Genre=%genre%"

Note: Alter this switch for the desired compression mode

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

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-==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 [http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/en/index.php/support/faq/ the EAC FAQ] or in the [http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=EAC_Compression_Options#External_Compression EAC Compression Options guide].
 ==Software Needed==
 * [http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/en/index.php/resources/download/ Exact Audio Copy]