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There are several applications known, which causes the crashing/hanging on the file dialogs:

1. Adobe Drive (part of Adobe CS3 & CS4)
2. Symantec Endpoint Protection
3. TortoiseSVN
4. MediaPortal / Dokan Library Bundle
5. Cryptomator (WinFsp component)

They install drivers/thunks into Windows, which causes EAC to hang. Please check the internet for possible solutions for any of the given applications (if a deinstall is not feasible).

On Windows 11 (maybe also on previous versions) the fonts MS Sans Serif and MS Serif are missing.
Download and install them manually, this should fix the problem.

There was a small problem with version 1.7 when using it as fresh install on a new computer. In that case, no email address was set and thus the metadata retrieval failed. Here comes version 1.8, which should fix this problem.

Today I released version 1.7 of EAC.
Because of some concerns regarding freedb/gnudb, I removed the freedb support completely, including freedb genre, etc.
As replacement, the AccurateRip meta service is now integrated, which offers improved metadata like composers and covers. This is available without any .NET plugins, but is natively integrated into EAC. For now it doesn’t support submissions for unknown CDs, but will so in the future.
At this point, I want to thank Spoon for providing the AccurateRip meta service free for all! Have a look at dBpoweramp for more information.
Other than that, I updated the MusicBrainz metadata plugin to use the correct artist information, fetch more/better covers and lyrics.
Also the included flac encoder and the included CTDB plugin (which also provides CD metadata) are updated to the most current version.
There is a problem with communicating with the AcoustID server, which is hopefully fixed within the next few weeks (on the server side). Whenever it is fixed, the submissions should just start to work again. If it is not fixed by November EAC will output an error message for the first failed submission each start of EAC.
If you do not want to wait until this feature works again, just create your personal user API key and enter it in the AcoustID plugin settings in the EAC options.
Hope it works fine for you!

Today I released version 1.6 of EAC. After freedb was closed down, EAC needed a replacement for the standard metadata provider. Therefore gnudb.org was implemented as a replacement. Furthermore, some problems with the second command line encoder and the Musicbrainz plugin were fixed (as well as some other minor bugs like replacing spaces with underscores). Hope you like it!

As there are several problems in version 1.4, I needed to release a bugfix version 1.5. Hopefully now all major problems are now fixed.

Finally there is a new version of EAC 1.4 available with a double (command line) encoder setup, allowing to encode to e.g. MP3 and Flac in one go. It is possible to specify separate file naming options for both encodes, making it possible to write the files in separate folders.
Additionally the freedb++ has been converted to a MusicBrainz plugin. I also improved the cover and lyrics search within the plugin.
Some bugs and quirks have been removed.
Have fun with the new version!

As the last version had some quirks in the track selection handling, I release this fix for the problem of selecting tracks individually. Sorry about the problems!

The updated EAC 1.2 provides mainly bug fixes for the CDRDAO component and updates the cover search in the freedb++ plugin. There are some more minor bugs fixed and the handling of track selection again modified. I hope that this is a compromise that everybody could live with… Hope you like it!