Thanks.

I was looking for a way to use audiograbber to combine tracks and rip them to WMA 9.
The first part was easy, but the second part was much trickier. I couldn't find the encoder in Windows Media Player and almost gave up until I read your post.

Your recommendations worked perfectly, and the parameters given in the wmcmd.vbs file are fairly comprehensive, except for one thing.

Using the WMA9STD quality-based VBR, only a few Q settings are allowed (10, 25, 50, 75, 90 & 100) in the user defined argument
%s %d WMA9STD 2 Qxx_44_2
where xx is the Q setting. Anything other than the allowed numbers automatically defaults to 100.

In Windows Media Player, these numbers correspond to the WMA (vbr) sliding scale in the "Rip Music" tab of the "Options" menu as follows.
If the furthest left of the scale (smallest size) is 1 and the next setting 2, then the furthest right of the scale (best quality) is a 5.

Qxx = scale y
Q25 = scale 1
Q50 = scale 2
Q75 = scale 3
Q90 = scale 4
Q100 = scale 5

I have not found this information elsewhere and am fairly confident of the correspondence.

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I've tried both the ID3v1 and ID3v2 options and adding "%3" to the user defined arguments field in the "External Encoder" tab of the "MP3 Settings" menu, but nothing works. I also wasn't able to find any information on these forums, the help section, or in the wmcmd.vbs file of the WMA 9 encoder.

Does anyone know of a way to add back in track numbers? If not, then can anyone recommend a freeware ID3 tagger compatible with WMA 9?

Thanks

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Originally posted by johnbrown001:
If not, then can anyone recommend a freeware ID3 tagger compatible with WMA 9?

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MP3 Tag

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Tom

Please Read this before asking any questions. It makes life easier.

My Audiograbber Guides

I tried some other freeware ID3 taggers and editors but some of them could only edit and not add data to files, and others did not recognize wma files at all.

Mp3tag v2.37a does all of the above and much more. Thanks again.