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Configure Compression Options (same settings for all formats)

Important settings are marked red in screen shots.

Compression Options

Before you go through this part of the configuration, you have to decide, which format you use, either MPC or one of the Lossless formats.
Read here introductions about MPC vs. Lossless formats & here about MPC settings in detail.

Table of content:

Compression Options

Offset tab
External Compression tab
Continue configuration with your preferred format

The following settings are the same for all formats:

Open the Compression Options… via EAC | Compression Options, and select the Offset tab. Make sure that Use Offset Correction for encoding and decoding is disabled:

If you would enable this offset 'correction', even as set to 0, then you would get ugly cutoffs or pauses, especially annoying in e.g. gapless live albums. So it is very important to disable this setting as shown in picture above !

Now select the External Compression tab. The following 3 steps are required for all formats:

1. Check Use external program for compression.
2. Select User Defined Encoder from the Parameter passing scheme list.
3. Uncheck Use CRC check.
Uncheck Add ID3 tag. (The encoder or the wapet utility will handle tagging.)

Now continue configuration with your format of choice:

MPC (Musepack)

or with one of the Lossless formats:

Shorten (SHN) cannot be recommended as Lossless format anymore, so it isn't supported by this Tutorial. SHN is somewhat outdated and old, so technically all other mentioned Lossless formats have advantages compared to SHN. Advantages like achieved compression ratio (smaller filesizes !), speed for en- and decoding etc.

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