Just a couple corrections:

Grip only in the latest release started supporting id3v2 tags, and though I haven't noticed the cropping problem, I will attempt to do so in a moment. I run all files through my re-tagger program (which makes a pass through at automatic capitalization, including de-capitalizing preps. and not de-capitalizing phrasal verbs) after encoding.

Grip doesn't actually pass the tags to lame--it tags the files itself. Also, in reply to a further comment, grip can use cdparanoia itself, but, it uses the same code as cdparanoia does by default, even if it skips using cdparanoia. So unless you actually configure it to use cdda2wav or something, it will be using the cdparanoia code.

I would also reccommend moving to one of the beta lame encoders, they appear to be quite good.


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