EAC / FLAC tagging from encode/ AAC with nero7 plugins

[Audiophizzle]

Hi all, nice forum. I have a bunch of questions but I'll focus on audio encoding today.

FLAC:
So I'm using Exact Audio Copy to encode all of my CDs with the latest version of FLAC (FLAC 1.1.4 (http://flac.sourceforge.net/)), and what I would like to know first is how can I add tags such as Title, Artist, Album, ect so that it's encoded with the music? I used to use WMA9 lossless and everything worked fine as it would display these field and I could manually add the meta data if I wanted and it would appear in my media player, but now I prefer FLAC and this is the only trouble I'm having with it.

another question is: what is the best command that I can put in the "Additional command line options"? Even if it takes a longer time I'm willing to wait so that I can best encoding possible. I currently have this in the "Additional command line options": -8 -T "artist=%a" -T "title=%t" -T "album=%g" -T "date=%y" -T "tracknumber=%n" -T "genre=%m" %s

Is there anymore that I should add and will it make a difference since I'm using FLAC 1.1.4?

AAC:
Well I had Nero7 for a short time but then the CD went "kaplut". I wanted to know how (use Exact Audio Copy) to encode audio using these latest plugins, and where I can download them from (the latest)? I'm trying to make two libraries of music, one in FLAC and the other in AAC. Now I'm somewhat of a novice as I'm still trying to learn how to use both EAC and the various encoders, so please bare with me. I appreciate anyone that can help me. :)

[Audiophizzle]

I also have another question: If I have existing flac files on my computer and I want to re-encode them via FLAC Frontend, decode the flac files back into PCM format and re-encode them using the latest version of FLAC (FLAC 1.1.4) through EAC, can I be reassured that I'm not losing a bit of quality? I need absolute perfection! :) Thanks.

[smok3]

about metatags, the eac command line you posted should allready tag the files correctly.

about nero aac:
http://www.nero.com/nerodigital/eng/Nero_Digital_Audio.html

about reencoding flac to flac, no you will not loose any quality.

about encoding to multiple formats via eac, it is possible with utilities like mareo, which acts like a plugin between eac and encoders.
http://www.webearce.com.ar/

p.s. this may not be correct forum for this kind of questions, try http://hydrogenaudio.org

[Audiophizzle]

Thanks for the response.

about metatags, the eac command line you posted should allready tag the files correctly.

Alas it doesn't display the way I want it. If I were to encode the music using WMA9 lossless the information would display correctly in the file itself and also in my VLC media player.

WMAL summary:
http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/1425/wmalep0.th.png (http://img527.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wmalep0.png)

FLAC summary:
http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/3236/flacjt1.th.png (http://img113.imageshack.us/my.php?image=flacjt1.png)

What am I missing so that the FLAC summary will display like the WMAL summary so that I can edit it?

about reencoding flac to flac, no you will not loose any quality.
Thank you, that's all I needed to know. :)

about encoding to multiple formats via eac, it is possible with utilities like mareo, which acts like a plugin between eac and encoders.
http://www.webearce.com.ar/
I'll try it out, thanks.

p.s. this may not be correct forum for this kind of questions, try http://hydrogenaudio.org
Oh man! I've been waiting 5 days to post this here just to find that it's probably not the right forum. Thanks for the heads up.

[Audiophizzle]

Another quick question (if you read it fast enough :D): For FLAC, what's the best compression method that I can use? I want to make the files as small as possible even if it takes a longer time to encode. Anyone?

BTW, I've noticed that EAC reports smaller files sizes with "compressed" then what it actually is after encoding, Example:

Original file size: 57.65MB
Compressed size (with FLAC): 13.38MB
After encode: 30.50MB

How do I make them as small as compressed size shows?

[smok3]

dunno about vlc and flac metadata.

best compression is probably:
flac -8 input.wav (your eac commandline is ok)

eac compressed info is based on bitrate settings of the specific encoder in your eac settings, but since here you are using cli options, it doesnt make any sense (dont worry).