Exact Audio Copy 0.99 Pre-Beta 5

Exact Audio Copy 0.99 Pre-Beta 5 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 cant 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.

With other audio grabbers you usually need to listen to every grabbed wave because they only do jitter correction. Scratched CDs read on CD-ROM drives often produce distortions. But listening to every extracted audio track is a waste of time. Exact Audio Copy conquer these problems by making use of several technologies like multi-reading with verify and AccurateRip.

Major Features:

1. All kinds of CD and DVD drives are supported (including USB, Firewire, SATA and SCSI drives)
2. Hidden sector synchronization (jitter correction)
3. A secure, a fast and a burst extraction methods selectable. Fast extraction should run at the same speed as other grabbers with jitter correction, but is probably not exact anymore. Burst mode just grabs the audio data without any synchronization.
4. Detection of read errors and complete losses of sync and correction in the secure mode, as far as possible
5. Output of time positions of all non-exact corrections and the possibility to listen to these positions
6. EAC is able to copy ranges of music data, not only tracks
7. Automatic speed reduction on read errors and fallback to a higher speed afterwards (depends on the used drive)
8. Volume normalization of extracted audio to a given percentage
9. Usage of the Windows Audio Compression manager (ACM Codecs) for direct compression to e.g. MP3 waves
10. Support for the LAME DLL that is usable like an ACM Codec for on-the-fly MP3 compression
11. Support of external MP3, WMA, flac and OggVorbis encoders for automatic compression after extraction (supports multi-processor environments)
12. Batch compression to WAV files and decompression of supported encoded files to WAV
13. Compression offset support for exact compression/decompression
14. Detection of pre-track gaps (positions where negative track times runs towards 00:00:00)
15. Detection of silence in pre-track gaps
16. Automatic creation of CUE sheets for Burnnn, Feurio, Nero or even EAC, which can include all gaps, indicies, track attributes, UPC and ISRC and also CD-Text for an exact copy
17. CD player functionality and pre-listening to selected ranges
18. Automatic detection of drive features, whether a drive has an accurate stream and/or does caching
19. Sample offsets for drives with no accurate streams, including the option of filling up missing samples with silence
20. Synchronizing between tracks for non-accurate stream drives
21. Trackname editing with local/remote CD databases support and more features like ID3 tagging
22. Browse and edit local database
23. Certified Escient ® CDDB(TM)Compatible
24. Local CDDB support
25. Record and loop record functions for recording from LP, radio, etc.
26. Automatic renaming of MP3 files according to their ID3 tag
27. Catalog extraction function (e.g. first 20 seconds of a track)
28. Multisession (CD-Extra) support
29. CD-Text support
30. CD-Write support for some drives (internally and using CDRDAO)
31. ID3 V1.1 tag editor with drag and drop ability from track listing and CD database browser
32. Glitch removal after extraction
33. 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 much more)
34. Program is free for personal use, so feel free to copy