Exact Audio Copy

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Exact Audio Copy, or often simply EAC, is a CD ripping program for Microsoft Windows. It is also known to work with later versions of WINE under Linux.

This program was created by Andre Wiethoff, a student at the University of Dortmund in Germany. In 1998 he became "fed up with other audio grabbers" and decided to try his own.

EAC is proprietary freeware, for non-commercial use, where registration is completed via postcardware.

Features

As of the latest version, Exact Audio Copy, has a number of features, including: usage of the Windows 95 and Windows NT ASPI, so both SCSI and ATAPI CD-ROM drives are supported, hidden sector synchronization (jitter correction), secure, fast and burst extraction methods, read error and complete loss of sync detection and correction, and a number of other features to maximize the possibility of getting an exact copy of the original source audio.

Here is the list of features:

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, indices, 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

External links

[Exact Audio Copy] — Official site by software author Andre Wiethoff
[Exact Audio Copy Tutorials] — Comprehensive EAC tutorials, not updated
[Exact Audio Copy Quickstart Manual] — Up-to-date tutorial to install and setup EAC and several popular compressors
[Dick's CDR page] — Unofficial EAC page, not updated
[Chris Myden's EAC page] — Unofficial EAC page, with detailed guides and FAQs
[The Lossless Audio Blog] (The L.A.B)

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