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EAC is a new audio grabber for CD-ROM drives. It works with a new technology, reading audio CDs almost perfectly.
This CD ripper is not very well known but it really deserves more attention than it has received. First of all it's free to
use (you should send him a postcard if you use it though) and supports CDDB. But the real killer feature is that it can
guarantee the quality of the output. You no longer need to listen through all the files in order to be sure that you didn't
get a glitch or something, if the result window says that a track was ripped at 100% quality you can be sure it was. This is
done by reading each sector at least twice and comparing the results. If they don't match the sector is read 16 more times to
gather some more information and if EAC still isn't sure which result is the right one it keeps on reading it until it either
finds it or have read the same sector 82 times, in which case it proceeds to the next sector and reports a possible quality
degradation. The downside of this technique is that some severely scratched CDs can take hours to read, but you always gets
the best possible results. 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. Thanks to this technique you can also use your
computer while ripping (although it gets a bit sluggish) without having to worry about bad quality.
This is the older, the most stable version of Exact Audio Copy.
Features of EAC :
- 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 method selectable. Fast extraction should get 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 lost 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
- Lyric database support from www.lyrics.ch
- 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 functions for 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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| | Author | : Andre Wiethoff | | Size | : 4.21 MB | | Platform | : WinXP/Vista/7 | | License | : Free | | Downloads | : 31125 times | | Last Updated | : 2011-09-27 | |
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