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Thanks iago, some useful comments in that thread that I didn't find through Google. I have managed to get it working, using: -e "AAC Encoder" -a "%artist%" -l "%albumtitle%" -t "%title%" -g "%genre%" -y %year% -n %tracknr% -i %source% -o %dest% (which, actually, does seem to be the original code just with the short tags swapped out for the new longer ones. I don't know what I was doing wrong when I tried that before). I am now able to rip in EAC and, by not deleting the WAV's, simultaneously generate a fully-tagged 256k AAC/M4A version in my iTunes library and a 'lossless' version (pedants don't even bother) in another location, which is exactly what I was hoping to do. The AAC library gives me the convenience of portability and availability across multiple devices (as well as using iTunes Match to upgrade my dodgy old mp3's for new 256k AAC/M4A). The WAV files are big and untagged, but they do give me a high quality archive as well as uncompressed, universally-readable source files for listening to full albums in maximum fidelity on any equipment. Happy days!

Maybe I didn't explain myself very well in my other post. Hopefully somebody can help me with this instead. I want to use iTunesEncode in EAC. The documentation I've found says to use -e "AAC Encoder" -a "%a" -l "%g" -t "%t" -g "%m" -y %y -n %n -i %s -o %d but this returns "invalid replacement tag found". From what I can tell the problem is that EAC no longer uses the short tags (eg "%a"), but simply replacing all the short tags with the new longer ones doesn't work either. For some reason all the Google results on this subject seem to be 10 years old, and I'm stumped.

Hi everyone, it looks like I've found the right people to help me figure this out! I want to re-rip my CD library. I'd like to use EAC, as I've used it before and found it to work really well and I'm confident in its rips. I'd like to keep an uncompressed format for archive and live listening on my 'good' system, but I'd also like to use iTunes to manage a library of compressed audio, including files generated from the new rips (I'm already using iTunes Match to help me upgrade all my low quality MP3's, fix tags etc). So the trick is to rip and encode into an iTunes-compatible format that preserves the tags. I'm trying AIFF. So far, I've managed to get EAC to rip and produce AIFF files using SOX. I've also been able to get these AIFF files into iTunes, but I haven't been able to get iTunes to acknowledge any tags whatsoever. I don't know whether the problem lies with EAC, SOX or iTunes. With some of the ID3 settings in EAC, iTunes fails to recognise the AIFF at all, so I"m currently trying different combinations of settings in the hope that there is a magic combination. If there is, I haven't been able to find it! Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.