Editing EAC and Musepack

{{EAC guides}}
==Software Needed==
* [http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/en/index.php/resources/download/ Exact Audio Copy]
* [http://www.musepack.net/index.php?pg=win Musepack 1.30]

==Installation==
'''Note:''' This guide assumes that EAC is has been configured for secure ripping, if not please follow [[EAC_Drive_Configuration | this]] guide.
* Unzip the chosen musepack version into the same directory that EAC is in.


==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 '''.mpc'''.
* Click the '''Browse''' button and locate the '''mpcenc.exe''' that you unzipped earlier.
* 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 one of the below strings based on the Tag you would prefer.
'''No Tags:'''

 <font style="color:green">'''--quality 6'''</font> %source% %dest% 

'''APEv2 tag:'''

 <font style="color:green">'''--quality 6'''</font> --ape2 --album "%albumtitle%" --tag "Album artist=%albumartist%" --year "%year%" --genre "%genre%" --comment "%comment%" --tag "Disc=%cdnumber%/%totalcds%" --track "%tracknr%/%numtracks%" --title "%title%" --artist "%artist%" --composer "%composer%" %source% %dest%

<font style="color:green">'''Note:''' If you wanted to change the quality setting the green portion is what you would substitute with the new setting e.g. --quality 10 or --quality 4 for example.</font>
* Do not worry what bit rate is shown in the bit rate drop down box, this will be ignored.


<center>[[Image:EAC_MPC.png|frame|center|Musepack configured with APEv2 tagging]]</center>

==Addtional Reading==
* [[Exact_Audio_Copy|Exact Audio Copy]]
* [[Musepack]]



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