So I finally decided to ditch AudioCatalyst after getting fed up of all the ripping errors it was producing and to switch to grip + lame under Linux.

Advantages for me are:

- Perfect rips every time
- Creates id3v2 tags which I had to create by hand before (using winamp)
- Creates m3u files which I had to create by hand before

Disadvantages are:

- No way to normalize the song AFAIK
- No way to force id3v2 tags only (even using the --id3v2-only on the command line for lame)

Anyway, it seems to me like the id3v2 tags grip passes to lame have their fields cropped to id3v1 sizes. I.E. a long song name will still be cut down even in the id3v2 field. Is this true?

-D
ps: Sorry if this has been mentionned before, I did try to do a search but didn't find anything relevant
pps: Maybe a 'MP3 encoding' or 'Music encoding' forum could be useful.

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