Comment 29 for bug 267399

I've just experienced the same problem in SuSe 11.2 and applied the old fix by editing the $HOME/.kde/share/config/h3brc file to contain the following:

[K3bExternalEncoderPlugin]
command_Mp3 (Lame)=Mp3 (Lame),mp3,lame -r --bitwidth 16 -b 160 -h --add-id3v2 --tt %t --ta %a --tl %m --ty %y --tc %c --tn %n --tg %g - %f,swap,wave
command_Flac=Flac,flac,flac -V -o %f --force-raw-format --endian=little --channels=2 --sample-rate=44100 --sign=signed --bps=16 -T ARTIST=%a -T TITLE=%t -T TRACKNUMBER=%n -T DATE=%y -T ALBUM=%m -
commands=Mp3 (Lame),Flac

note in particular the ,swap,wave

I find it very disappointing that k3b STILL hasn't been fixed to save the settings properly.