Im on hands and knees here Jackie..please...please..whine whine...

And yes Big thanks you for such an excellent product and for free. Not trying to be an ingrate.. but would be fantasitcally overjoyed to get a working FLAC encoder that will fill in the tags while ripping.

Jackie said that there was to be a new version in the winter but that has come and gone. His other projects must be taking up his time.

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Tom

My Audiograbber Guides

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Originally posted by Tomb:
Strange that FLAC.exe does not work with AG. Try using the default parameters by just entering %s %d in the user defined arguments and see what happens. It may be that your arguments were wrong although I will need to search out your previous thread...

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[This message has been edited by bascule on 21 May 2005 @ 13:24]

Anyhow, it seems that you have had a little more sucess and getting some of the tracks ripped to FLAC. I can't even get the FLAC encoder window from popping up and then shutting down instantly. Do you have any idea what might be going on with that?

I have managed to get FLAC to work with AG by selecting "Grap to: Wav file and alsonselecting external FLAC encoder (flac.exe)

I first rip directly to Wav, then use the "Make MP3" on the File menu. The "Make MP3" really means in this case "Make FLAC".
Then the FLAC encoder will launch and stay running and actually produces a FLAC. However it fills in no tag info at all.

So why would the FLAC encoder window stay open using this method, but not when trying the usual way of ripping from CD? And, why no tags?

Anybody got ideas?

I'm not sure why you are having problems creating tags. FLAC accepts ID3v tags but I found it's best to check the append ID3v info to wav file (for future use) box.

FLAC also has it's own tags. The default argument works for me:

%s --tag=artist="%1" --tag=album="%2" --tag=tracknumber="%3" --tag=title="%4" --tag=date="%6" --tag=genre="%7" --tag=comment="%8"

I will have a look at the arguments again and see where you may be having trouble.

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Tom

My Audiograbber Guides

[This message has been edited by Tomb on 18 June 2005 @ 07:39]

It's all in the command line. As you know, the FLAC arguments are:
%s --tag=artist="%1" --tag=album="%2" --tag=tracknumber="%3" --tag=title="%4" --tag=date="%6" --tag=genre="%7" --tag=comment="%8"

This are much more wordy than most other encoders, hence people not getting this problem more often. If you throw out all the tag stuff and just use %s, you'll find that every track rips (if you are having the same problem I was).

After much experimenting, I found that AG must have a very short buffer for the command line. Shorter than what windows accepts, at least. I got around it by creating my own batch file and using that instead.

My batch file looks like this:

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@echo off
c:
cd\flacs
c:\bin\flac.exe %1 --tag=artist=%2 --tag=album=%3 --tag=tracknumber=%4 --tag=title=%5 --tag=date=%6 --tag=genre=%7 -o %8
if exist %8 del %1

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Then go into AG and set the encoder to user defined and point it at the batch file. Set the arguments to this:

code:

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%s "%1" "%2" "%3" "%4" "%6" "%7" "%1 - %2 - %3 - %4.flac"

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Now as you can probably see, these are imperfect solutions. I will eventually go back and make it a bit nicer. First, I had to harcode the output directory in the batch file. Second, I had to harcode the output filename as "%1 - %2 - %3 - %4.flac". This kind of sucks since these variables can still contain unsuable filename characters like slashes and colons. So that's why I have it only delete the wav file in the batch file if the flac file was successfully created. That makes it easy for me to go and hand fix the few that fail.

I also ditched the comment field because I never use it.

So though it is an imperfect solution, I hope it can help you out. I think I'll email in a request that that buffer be lengthened so this isn't necessary.