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Exact Audio Copy 0.95 Beta 1

Posted by Steven Parker on 11 May 2005 - 15:16 · 8 comments & 863 views

Thanks Courage for this submission.
EAC is a new 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.

What's New in This Release:

Wave editor and native interface stability improved
Many bug fixes (E.g. extraction engine crashes, CDDB problems, compression queue)
Added interface for CDRDAO for CD writing
Inserting all tracknames from Clipboard using Ctrl+Shift+V

Download: Exact Audio Copy 0.95 beta 1 2.52MB (Cardware)

Screenshot: >> Click here <<

News source: Softpedia.com

Here are some key features of "Exact Audio Copy":

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(TM) 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

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#1 Posted by VB Guy on 11 May 2005 - 15:50: Nice, I love this ripper. I thought he was never going to update it again.

#2 Posted by xMorpheousx416 on 11 May 2005 - 16:10: It is a great app. I am surprised myself to see any changes in the past year I've used v0.95pb5. Ya visit the site and all ya heard were birds and crickets.

(1 reply) #3 Posted by nic on 11 May 2005 - 16:41

QUOTE

EAC is a new audio grabber for CD-ROM drives.

Hardly... I've used EAC for some 5 years now

Nice to see an update. EAC is probably the only audio ripper that supports alternative naming schemes for soundtracks/compilations with multiple artist.

For a normal CD I like:
<artist> - <album> - <track#> - <track title>.mp3

for multi-artist CDs I like:
<album> - <track#> - <artist> - <track title>.mp3

helps keep things organize better!

#3.1 Posted by k22 on 11 May 2005 - 18:47: I think they just copied/pasted whatever info he had on the site, that's why it says "new".

#4 Posted by Dirtie on 11 May 2005 - 22:38: A new version of EAC?! Hooray!

(1 reply) #5 Posted by dannymp3 on 11 May 2005 - 22:53: Awesome. Sad to say this thing will never get out of beta.

#6 Posted by dhitb on 13 May 2005 - 02:19: yaY~! Andree pwns

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