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[NetMage]

The one reason I use Media Center is to Rip then convert CD tracks. It is relatively easy to use an Smart List to pick the wave files to convert.

I have wav files on D:\My Music\Artist\Album and I am converting them to E:\My Music\Artist\Album VBR MP3 files.

When I attempt to use external encoder, selecting Lame (--alt-preset extreme), Media Center copies the wav file to the destination folder before converting from wav to mp3, then deletes the temp wav file and the original wav file.

Why doesn't it just input the existing wav file, then delete it when the conversion is finished?

Also, why doesn't it use the temporary file location for the temporary wav file? (Which I have on C:, where there is plenty of space - my D: was nearly full and conversion in place failed, due to the extra wav file copy, and it deleted the original wav file, leaving me with a 1k empty mp3 file.)

[NetMage]

I see paying for this program isn't enough to get official attention...

get on the cluetrain a little more!

[JimH]

Your question is hard to understand.  That may be why nobody answered.

Why not rip to MP3 instead of the two step process?

Converting wav to mp3 should not move your files.

[KingSparta]

When I attempt to use external encoder, selecting Lame

Dude the internal encoder "MP3 Encoder" is the lame encoder

and should use the temp location, not sure about what your doing where it would go.

[modelmaker]

There's no need to rip and convert separately. MC will do both automatically. Just goto options/encoder and select the encoder/quality. MC's Mp3 encoder IS the Lame encoder.

Also in options goto 'file naming and locations' and you can choose where the temp files go, as well as where to send the mp3s.

Once that's done, put in a CD and rip away!

[jleerigby]

There's no need to rip and convert separately.....

I disagree.  If you have a few CD's to rip it is much quicker to rip to WAV and then batch convert all the files later.  Converting to MP3 VBR can take a long time so you're best doing a bunch of files at once and walking away and leaving it (or go to bed and check it next morning).

[modelmaker]

JLee: For more efficient use of one's time you're right, but technically(qualitively- is that a word?) it doesn't make any difference.