Tags...

I have said it already before: all track info (such as Artist, Album, Songname, ReleaseYear, Genre) you fill in in EAC is stored in the file, in a part called the 'tag'. There are several types of tags. APE2 tags are very suited for MPC (so we use them). Other tag types are ID3v1 and ID3v2.

Open one of your self-made MPC music files, it will be played in Winamp, and appear in the 'Winamp Playlist' section (the bottom section of Winamp). Right-click with your mouse on the item in the playlist, and choose 'file info' from the menu popping up. What you see now, is the tag! Not only Artist/Songname/Album/Year/Genre, but also the bitrate, 'Insane' (this is the MPC bitrate used) and the replaygain correction values...

This way you can change the tag info, but beware! If you change anything, an MD5 check will notice that the file has changed, and say it is 'corrupt'

Hint: check the tag of one file after ripping a CD... if the tagging (important) got messed up, you'll immediately see.

Interesting & recommended :  How to let EAC fill in your own tag comments automatically:

Go to:

EAC > Compression Options

Choose the "external compression" tab. Do you see "Additional Command Line Options"? There is a textbox next to it. It has the following line in it:

--quality 7 --xlevel --artist "%a" --title "%t" --album "%g" --year "%y" --track "%n" --genre "%m" --comment "High quality extraction" %s

The interesting thing is: at the end of the line, you can replace the red text by whatever you want :

--comment "red text" %s 

Most people will write their settings there:

--quality 7 --xlevel --artist "%a" --title "%t" --album "%g" --year "%y" --track "%n" --genre "%m" --comment "high quality, EAC secure, MPC 1.15r q8 ms15 xl" %s

You can add whatever you like (also additional info on the CD, MPC encoder version used...).  But beware :

If you write extra CD info in the tag, do not forget to change it when you rip another CD! Yeah, this is a tricky thing ;-)

I have found that the comment cannot be too long (it will be cut off automatically).