Exact Audio Copy 1.0 Beta 3
A complex and free audio grabber for CD-ROM drives
EAC is a great and easy-to-use audio grabber for CD-ROM drives. The main differences towards most other audio grabbers : Low registration costs (just a postcard and a stamp), it works with a new technology, reading audio CDs almost perfectly.
If there are any errors that can’t be corrected, it will tell you on which time position the (possible) distortion occurred, so you could easily control it with e.g. the media player.
Tips
Profiles from previous versions can not be used by this version of EAC. If you would like to import these, you need a side by side installation of the new EAC version and the older one. Load the settings in the older one and exit the program. Then start the new EAC and save that profile.
When installing EAC in a different directory than your old EAC, all your CD information will be gone. To add the old information use the “Database / Import Database…” command and select the file in your old EAC directory.
It is possible that under Vista the WMA compression will not work, this is due to restrictions in the scripting host. There are several workarounds, e.g. starting EAC with admin rights.
NOTE: Free for non-commercial use.
· Usage of the Windows 95 and Windows NT ASPI Interface, so both SCSI and ATAPI CD-ROM drives are supported
· Hidden sector synchronization (jitter correction)
· Secure, fast and burst extraction methods selectable. Fast extraction should run at the same speed as other grabbers, but is probably not exact anymore. Burst mode just grabs the audio data without any synchronization.
· Read error and complete loss of sync detection and correction in secure modes, as far as possible
· Output of time positions of all non-exact corrections and listen to these positions
· Copy of ranges of music data, not only tracks
· Automatic Speed reduction on errors and fallback afterwards
· Normalization of extracted audio
· Usage of the Windows Audio Compression Manager (ACM Codecs) for direct compression e.g. to MP3 waves
· Support for the BladeEnc DLL that is usable like an ACM Codec for online MP3 compression
· Support of external MP3, VQF, RA and AAC encoders for automatic compression after extraction
· Batch compression and decompression of/to WAV files
· Compression offset support for exact compression/decompression
· Detection of pre-track gaps
· Detection of silence in pre-track gaps
· Automatic creation of CUE sheets for CDRWin, including all gaps, indicies, track attributes, UPC and ISRC
· CD player functionality and prelistening to selected ranges
· Automatic detection of drive features, whether a drive has an accurate stream and/or does caching
· Sample Offsets for drives with no accurate streams, including the option of filling up missing samples with silence
· Option for synchronizing tracks for non-accurate stream drives
· Filename editing with local and remote CDDB database and cdplayer.ini support and more features like ID3 tagging
· Browse and edit local database
· Certified Escient CDDB Compatible
· Local CDDB support
· Record and Loop Record functions for recording from LP, radio, etc.
· Automatic rename of MP3 files according to their ID3 tag
· Catalog extraction function
· Multisession (CD-Extra) support
· CD-Text support
· CD-Write support for some drives
· ID3 Tag editor with drag and drop possibility from track listing and database
· Glitch removal after extraction
· Small WAV editor with the following functionality: delete, trim, normalize, pad, glitch removal, pop detection, interpolation of ranges, noise reduction, fade in/out, undo (and more)
· Program is Cardware, so feel free to copy
Requirements:
· CD-ROM drive
What’s New in This Release:
· Added the CTDB (CUETools Database), which can test complete CD rips against an online checksum (like AccurateRip, but CD based) and submits error correction data which can be used by others on defective CDs with an external application.
· Fixed a problem with track duration in e.g. filename creation for the last track of a CD
· Using UNC paths will now work (again)
· Several database issues (e.g. max database size was 256 MB)
· Translations for the metadata plugins
· Sometimes the metadata provider plugins were not loaded
· In some cases the options window of the metadata plugins could not be opened
· Options of the freedb metadata plugin are not stored over EAC sessions (in some cases)
· LAME DLL produces defective, stuttering MP3s (bug exists since 1.0 beta 1!). By the way, it seems that only LAME.DLL (VC6 compiled) is compatible with EAC.
· Codec compression crashes/hangs EAC in some extraction modes when “Use multiple external compressors” is used
· CD Autostart deactivation should work no…