Hi Rod,

Audiograbber has a version of Lame builtin and has a simple GUI for selecting some presets. However, it also has a method for selecting an external encoder and passing command line arguments to it. I've always used that method to use the latest version of Lame.

I've kind of stuck to the same command line arguments for a while:

-q 0 -m s -b 320

The first option is meant to use the highest quality version of all the built-in algorithms but maybe I need to investigate some of the newer options.

I use a Plextor CD-ROM to do the ripping and it supports error detection and correction when extracting CD audio. I tried using EAC instead of Audiograbber but with the Plextor drive it didn't seem to make any difference and was substantially slower (which is understandable since EAC is designed to be extremely paranoid about it's data source).

Ronnie

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