Author: Andre2

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!

In windows kernel is a bug, that occurs when selecting multiple files at once (e.g. in write dialog or in ID3Tag dialog). The first and last file name will be exchanged. This could result in some problems, so with the option “Correct bug of wrong filename order in Windows multiple file dialog” EAC will again exchange the first and last filename to the correct order.

These routines will playback audio tracks by extracting the data and directly playing them through the soundcard. It is not necessary that the drive is connected to the soundcard by a cable.

Just insert all CDs you want to query into the actual drive EAC uses (do not edit any data!), afterwards press Alt-P.

I assume that you are recording the CD to WAV and then using the WAV to burn a rw-cd. There’s an extra step in the middle to edit the clicks out of the WAV file. More complex pops that occur on analog recording (tapes, etc.) should be found by listening to the WAV roughly to find the positions with +/- 3 seconds accuracy. Then select such a range and choose “Pop Detection”. Usually EAC will find them automatically. If not, switch to “Spectral View” and look for any anormalities. Then you have different options to remove the pop.

After created the noise profile (selecting a range, create noise profile, save noise profile) you are able to load the wav to denoise (or keep the actual one). There you have to load a noise profile first (noise profile/load), or keep the noise profile you created from that audio file, then you are able to remove the noise of it. You have to select first a range of the audio data that should be denoised before the menu option will be activated.

DC offset occurs when the average/mean of the signal is a value other than 0 which means on average DC current flows through a circuit and which means the signal will clip earlier on one side (top or bottom) and your maximum signal strength before clipping occurs is smaller. To get rid of DC offset the average of the signal is subtracted form every sample of the signal.

Normalization is used to bring up the sound level on songs that were not recorded very loud. It is use full when making a compilation disc as the songs that you use may have been recorded at all different levels. But be aware that on some discs the volume was choosen to create a special effect, on these CDs normalization would destroy that effect.