RE: RE: MAREO not working with EAC

I got inconsistent results so I ran the process again both with and without administrator privilege.  It still gives inconsistent results, but doesn’t seem to make a difference.

 

By inconsistent I mean the results of running the compression doesn’t give the same results.

 

Thinking the problem is related to file names/directories I changed the mareo.ini file to use a final directory that points to a specific directory rather than the default variable directory.  I ran EAC with MAREO on a file at a time and watched the two directories chosen.  When the EAC compression button is clicked the directory chosen at the start shows the correct file name on the CD, e.g., (02) Little Hideaway.wav.  Then when the compressor seems to start the file name changes to the temporary filename that EAC passes to MAREO, e.g., (tmp!58.=)5.wav as shown in the warning below.  When this window is dismissed by clicking OK the filename changes back to the original, e.g., (02) Little Hideaway.wav.

 

The first time I ran this I got a file “5 trackname.mp3” in the final mp3 directory, but it was just gibberish rather than an accurate MP3 of the wave file.  For some reason the tags are not getting passed along properly and some seem hardwired, but I don’t see how.  None-the-less, I am making the assumption for now that tags should not be causing the compression errors, but should only result in improper naming.  That said in running the conversion on the next file didn’t provide an additional mp3.  Assuming it could be because of the hardwired naming, I changed the first file to unknown.mp3, but again no new file was generated.  Lastly, I deleted this file and ran again and no mp3 was generate.  As I said the results are inconsistent.

 

None of this makes sense to me.

 

 

 



 

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2018 3:32 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [EAC] RE: MAREO not working with EAC

 

  

Mike,

 

I recall that you had different results when running EAC as administrator.  Sorry it’s escaping me now, but could you refresh my memory as to how it differed and clue in the rest of the group in the process?


Regards,
  Fred Maxwell
  Moderator, Exact Audio Copy Yahoogroup 





On Jun 19, 2018, at 12:45 PM, 'M' [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>  [EAC] <[email protected]> wrote:

 

 

Does anyone have any other thoughts to get this to work?  I know other have been able to get this going, but I am at a loss to understand the problems..  You assistance is greatly appreciated.

 

Mike

 

 

 

From: M [ <mailto:[email protected]> mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2018 8:49 AM
To: ' <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]'
Subject: FW: MAREO not working with EAC

 

I am trying to get MAREO to work and not having success.  I have installed MAREO into the EAC directory in a MAREO subdirectory.  LAME is in a LAME subdirectory and FLAC is as installed in the FLAC subdirectory.  Both LAME and FLAC work fine alone, but trying to use both with MAREO doesn’t.  

 

Running LAME alone works with the following:

 

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Running FLAC works with the following:

 

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Command line option:

 

-6 -V -T "ARTIST=%artist%" -T "TITLE=%title%" -T "ALBUM=%albumtitle%" -T "DATE=%year%" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%tracknr%" -T "GENRE=%genre%" -T "COMMENT=%comment%" -T "BAND=%albuminterpret%" -T "ALBUMARTIST=%albuminterpret%" -T "COMPOSER=%composer%" %haslyrics%--tag-from-file=LYRICS="%lyricsfile%"%haslyrics% -T "DISCNUMBER=%cdnumber%" -T "TOTALDISCS=%totalcds%" -T "TOTALTRACKS=%numtracks%" %hascover%--picture="%coverfile%"%hascover% %source% -o %dest%

 

Here is the external compression settings for MAREO:

 

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The complete command line option is:

 

mareo.ini %source% %dest% "%artist%" "%albumtitle%" "%title%" "%tracknr1%" %year% "%genre%"

 

From the mareo.ini file the path to the compressors and parameters are as follows:

 

ENCODEREXE = C:\Program Files (x86)\Exact Audio Copy\lame3.100-64\lame.exe

PARAMETERS = -V2 --vbr-new --ignore-tag-errors --ta "[ARTIST]" --tl "[ALBUM]" --tt "[TITLE]" --tn "[TRACK]" --ty "[YEAR]" --tg "[GENRE]" "[SOURCE]" "[DESTTMP]"

 

 

ENCODEREXE = C:\Program Files (x86)\Exact Audio Copy\Flac\flac.exe

PARAMETERS = -6 "[SOURCE]" -o "[DESTTMP]" -T artist="[ARTIST]" -T album="[ALBUM]" -T title="[TITLE]" -T tracknumber="[TRACK]" -T date="[YEAR]" -T genre="[GENRE]"

 

 

All the command option strings were taken from other references, I only changed the compression levels in the mareo.ini file and both command line options for individual EAC compressions are different than the mareo.ini options.  

 

With LAME or FLAC alone the files are put into the directory I choose when running the compression from EAC.  With MAREO a directory is set up in the Music directory under my files (as per default in the .ini file); however, it is empty and perhaps if it were to complete it would move everything to the chosen directory.  I believe this is a very small point, but what I have observed.

 

I am wondering if the problem is related to paths and the compressors can’t find the wav files to compress, but everything is set up by EAC and passed to MAREO which is using its defaults.  Since all of this has been tested and nothing has been changed on my end I was expecting it to work, even if in a directory I was not intending to use.  And even if the tags aren’t properly passed the conversion should take place with tag names instead of values.

 

I am using EAC V1..3 from 2. September 2016.  It is what I understood to be the latest version..

 

Here is the EAC window with the CD info:

 

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I used the test encoder button and got:

 

 

***********************************************************

* MAREO - Multiple Applications Runner for EAC and Others *

* Copyright 2003-2007 by Kwanbis -- Under the GPL License *

* Version 6.0b2 - Home Page at  <http://www.webearce.com.ar/> http://www.webearce.com..ar *

* Developed with Borland Delphi  <http://borland.com/delphi> http://borland..com/delphi *

***********************************************************

 

*** Received Command Line ***

 

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Exact Audio Copy\Mareo\mareo.exe" mareo.ini "etmp58-!).wav" "etmp58-!).xxx" "Track Artist" "CD Title" "Track Title" "5" "1999" "Drum Solo"

 

*** Parsed Parameters ***

 

INIFILE       (%1) = C:\Program Files (x86)\Exact Audio Copy\Mareo\mareo.ini

[SOURCE]      (%2) = etmp58-!).wav

[DESTTMP]     (%3) = etmp58-!).xxx

[ARTIST]      (%4) = Track Artist

[ALBUM]       (%5) = CD Title

[TITLE]       (%6) = Track Title

[TRACK]       (%7) = 5

[YEAR]        (%8) = 1999

[GENRE]       (%9) = Drum Solo

 

*** INI Parameters ***

 

Padding Zeros      = 2

DeleteWavFile      = FALSE

CorrectionChar     = _

 

 

*** PROCESSING ENCODER ORDER # 1 ***

 

EXECUTE IF             = TRUE

 

NEW EXTENSION          = mp3

 

TEMPORAL FULL NAME     = C:\Program Files (x86)\Exact Audio Copy\Mareo\etmp58-!).mp3

TEMPORAL PATH ONLY     = C:\Program Files (x86)\Exact Audio Copy\Mareo

TEMPORAL NAME ONLY     = etmp58-!)

 

RENAME FINAL FILE      = TRUE

 

FINAL FULL NAME        = C:\Users\Greg\Documents\Music\Track Artist - CD Title\05. Track Title.mp3

FINAL PATH ONLY        = C:\Users\Greg\Documents\Music\Track Artist - CD Title

FINAL NAME ONLY        = 05. Track Title

 

 

EXECUTING: C:\Program Files (x86)\Exact Audio Copy\lame3.100-64\lame.exe -V2 --vbr-new --ignore-tag-errors --ta "Track Artist" --tl "CD Title" --tt "Track Title" --tn "5" --ty "1999" --tg "Drum Solo" "etmp58-!).wav" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Exact Audio Copy\Mareo\etmp58-!).mp3"

 

EXECUTION: -ERROR- (-1)

 

DIRECTORY "C:\Users\Greg\Documents\Music\Track Artist - CD Title" allready exists.

 

RENAMING: C:\Program Files (x86)\Exact Audio Copy\Mareo\etmp58-!).mp3 =] C:\Users\Greg\Documents\Music\Track Artist - CD Title\05. Track Title..mp3 .... -ERROR-

 

 

 

*** PROCESSING ENCODER ORDER # 2 ***

 

EXECUTE IF             = TRUE

 

NEW EXTENSION          = flac

 

TEMPORAL FULL NAME     = C:\Program Files (x86)\Exact Audio Copy\Mareo\etmp58-!).flac

TEMPORAL PATH ONLY     = C:\Program Files (x86)\Exact Audio Copy\Mareo

TEMPORAL NAME ONLY     = etmp58-!)

 

RENAME FINAL FILE      = TRUE

 

FINAL FULL NAME        = C:\Users\Greg\Documents\Music\Track Artist - CD Title\05. Track Title.flac

FINAL PATH ONLY        = C:\Users\Greg\Documents\Music\Track Artist - CD Title

FINAL NAME ONLY        = 05. Track Title

 

 

EXECUTING: C:\Program Files (x86)\Exact Audio Copy\Flac\flac.exe -6 "etmp58-!).wav" -o "C:\Program Files (x86)\Exact Audio Copy\Mareo\etmp58-!).flac" -T artist="Track Artist" -T album="CD Title" -T title="Track Title" -T tracknumber="5" -T date="1999" -T genre="Drum Solo"

 

EXECUTION: -ERROR- (1)

 

DIRECTORY "C:\Users\Greg\Documents\Music\Track Artist - CD Title" allready exists.

 

RENAMING: C:\Program Files (x86)\Exact Audio Copy\Mareo\etmp58-!).flac =] C:\Users\Greg\Documents\Music\Track Artist - CD Title\05. Track Title.flac ... -ERROR-

 

 

*** Encoder Orders Ends ***

 

DeleteWaveFile is FALSE..

 

 

*** DONE ***

 

4 errors ocurred. Press any key to end.

 

 

Actually running the compression generates the Wave files renamed to correct Track Number and Track Title but I get error windows, each track produces this with the track info:

 

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No errors shown in the EAC log.  Not sure what this is saying but file listed doesn’t appear until after this message is closed, i.e., it shows the tmp660-!.wav name then after closing it changes to The King Of Hears.wav.  No .mp3 or .flac files are produced.

 

Can anyone make sense of this?

 

 

Mike