EAC placeholders

Exact Audio Copy provides numerous placeholders to be used when invoking a command-line encoder. Beginning with EAC version 1.0 beta 2, the naming scheme for placeholders was revamped, necessitating that users moving to this new version revise their command lines. Both old and new lists of placeholders and their meanings are available in the official EAC FAQ and in several of the Hydrogenaudio Knowledgebase’s own Guides. This page intends to simplify the process of migrating to a new version of EAC by collating the two sets of placeholders into a single table for ease of comparison/substitution.

Comparison of placeholders from versions of EAC before and after 1.0 beta 2

For versions before 1.0 beta 2	For versions from 1.0 beta 2 on
Files
%s – Source filename	%source% – Source filename
%d – Destination filename	%dest% – Destination filename
%o – Original filename (without temporary renaming)	%original% – Original filename (without temporary renaming)
Quality settings
%h…%h – Text “…” only when “High quality” selected	%ishigh%…%ishigh% – Text “…” only when “High quality” selected
%l…%l -Text “…” only when “Low quality” selected	%islow%…%islow% -Text “…” only when “Low quality” selected
Common metadata
%a – Track artist	%artist% – Track artist
%t – Track title	%title% – Track title
%v – CD artist	%albumartist% – CD artist
%g – CD title	%albumtitle% – CD title
	%composer% – Track performer
	%albumcomposer% – CD composer
	%albuminterpret% – CD performer
%y – Year	%year% – Year
%n – Track number	%tracknr% – Track number (same as %tracknr2%)
	%tracknr1% – Track number (at least 1 digit)
	%tracknr2% – Track number (at least 2 digits)
	%tracknr3% – Track number (at least 3 digits)
	%totalcds% – Total number of CDs in the given CD set
	%cdnumber% – Number of the CD
%x – Number of tracks on album	%numtracks% – Number of tracks on album
%m – MP3 music genre	%genre% – MP3 music genre
%e – Comment (as selected in EAC)	%comment% – Comment (as selected in EAC)
Album artwork
%j…%j – Text “…” only when storing cd cover is enabled	%hascover%…%hascover% – Text “…” only when storing cd cover is enabled and cover exists
%i – Filename of CD cover image	%coverfile% – Filename of CD cover image
Lyrics
	%haslyrics%…%haslyrics% – Text “…” only when lyrics exist
	%lyrics% – Lyrics
	%lyricsfile% – Filename of lyrics text file (ANSI)
Other information
%c…%c – Text “…” only when “CRC checksum” selected	%crcenabled%…%crcenabled% – Text “…” only when “CRC checksum” selected
%b – CRC of extracted track	%trackcrc% – CRC of extracted track
%f – freedb ID	%cddbid% – freedb ID
%r – Bitrate (“32″..”320″)	%bitrate% – Bitrate (“32″..”320″)
	%% – The ‘%’ character