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Originally Posted by GRC

I must have missed something in the EAC menu options then; I haven't been able to persuade it to do anything but encode .wav; ...

Open EAC. Click the EAC menu and select Compression Options. Click the External Compression tab. Check the box Use external program for compression, change Parameter passing scheme to User Defined Encoder, change Use file extension to .flac, ...

Originally Posted by GRC

... however, am I right in saying that EAC won't do the fingerprints, ...

Yes, you are.

Originally Posted by GRC

... and I'll still need TLH to do them...?

TLH or any other program that is able to create flac fingerprints.