Exact Audio Copy

Author: Andre2

  • There were still some smaller bugs, and dialog translation was made a little bit easier. Some more languages have been added to the default ZIP package, please make sure that you extract the files with pathnames. So, have fun with 0.95 prebeta 3!

  • As always, a bug fix release of 0.95 prebeta 1 is released a few days later 😉
    There were some smaller bugs, and some issues for the translation SDK fixed. Hopefully this version don’t need a third prebeta…

  • Finally here comes 0.95pb1. The translation of the program took longer than I expected. Further, I had (and will have) less and less time for working on EAC. The main feature is the language SDK, which enables people to translate EAC into nearly any language. There is more information on that at the download location. Besides that, there are only minor additions and a lot of bugfixes. Please make sure again that your compression queue is empty when installing the update!
    Anyway, I hope you will like it!

  • Here is my new page layout, hope you like it! The creator was Dean Giles, thanks for creating it!
    On the occasion of the new page layout, I will also put out the version 0.9b4. This will hopefully fix some smaller bugs like the burning problem and I also worked something on hanging in the waveform editor. It may be better now, or on the other hand even worse, if you had problems with the previous version please tell your experiences… Meanwhile the work on 0.95pb1 make progress, main change is the language SDK.

  • So, last try 😉
    All bigger remaining issues (like GUI bug, etc.) are hopefully now fixed, there are some smaller additions and improvements (e.g. assembler FFT, faster spectral display). I hope you like it!
    Either uninstall the previous version and use the installer of this one, or just unzip the files over the old ones.
    For Monkeys Audio DLL support, you need the most recent version of the DLL. There are again some changes in parameter passing…

  • Nearly after every beta there was need for a bug fix, the program is now such complex that even thorough testing can’t find all problems. But now after all severe problems are known, I hurried to bring out 0.9 beta 2 to make the release as stable as the 0.9 beta 1 should have been. Anyway, I hope this will work for you!

  • Finally here is the 0.9 beta 1. I hope this version is quite stable, though it is only tested for some days, no major bugs seem to be left. The many minor bugs and additions will be done in the next versions…
    The following main changes are made from 0.9pb11 :

    • GUI restructured, added new buttons, changed button type to flat buttons. Artist and CD information is now directly accessible through the main window.
    • Profile usage is now easier and can be selected by a drop down box on the main window. For using your old profiles, copy them into the Profiles directory in EACs home.
    • Updated freedb usage to proto 5.
    • Configuration Wizard to setup basic drive, encoder and freedb configuration for beginner users.
    • Option setting for leaving out all advanced features, making it easier for beginners.
    • Secondary C2 extraction mode (may work better for some kind of erraneous CDs and for some but not every drive. Even if it may be misused for copy protected CDs, using this mode on protected CDs is only allowed when legal in your country). This mode is up to now very basic, and will be improved in upcoming versions.
    • Manual detection of TOC, usefull if a CD is defective and displays wrong track positions or data tracks instead of audio, EAC will try to detect the CD structure by analysis. For this, your drive must support Gap Detection mode B.
    • Uncompressed and compressed extraction is now divided, so compression options will missing “Internal WAV routines”.
    • More placeholders for external command line encoders in “User Defined Encoder” format, see FAQ for details.
    • Correction of MP+ decoding bug with command line decoder.
    • New Monkeys Audio (MAC) DLL support, you need at least DLL version 3.94.
    • Compression queue is saved to harddisk and continued on next EAC session.
    • Improving Pop Detection to 4 band analysis.
    • Some more smaller additions… ;))
    • Display of actual extraction position in real music time (for error checking)
    • Small corrections to ID3V2 routines, I hope they will still work 😉
    • Correction of support for some writers (no Philips/RAW MMC support though)
    • Many smaller additions and bug fixes

    Again I hope you will like this version!
    It is recommended to delete the registry enrty in HKEY_CURRENT_USER in order to prevent problems with previous versions.
    Work will continue, the next big step will be a localization version, which will help to translate all EAC texts into your own language. But please do not ask when it is ready, it will be finished, when it is finished! Thanks.

  • I just want to tell everybody that I have decided not to answer the registrations cards anymore (only those who contain extras 😉
    This is mainly because it takes too much of my time (which should better be spend in development) and I have lost tracking over the registrations in the last four weeks (because of a holiday and a water damage in my rooms). The registrations itself are fine, but I can’t decide anymore whether I already have answered or not. As I have collected registrations before I have answered them, the last eight weeks registrations will be without answer also.
    So from now on, please accept that I will not answer the registration cards anymore, sorry about this!

  • I will be on holiday from 12th September to 26th September, so please don’t send registrations nor emails to me during this time, as it would be much work to come up to them. I hope Ireland will be as nice as last time, now I will have a close look at Cork and Kerry :))
    I hope some persons in the mailing list will standing in for me and try to answer all questions that might occur there.

  • At the moment I build up a CD-ROM drive feature database for inclusion in EAC. For that purpose I need more submissions of features. So I ask everybody to please test and submit the drive features of EAC. “Detect Read Features”, “Examine C2 Feature” (if C2 was detected by the first test and using a scratchy CD) and “Offset Detection” (using as much CDs from the list). Please test all of your drives, even if you personally don’t use it for extraction, and also please try to detect offsets (which shouldn’t be important to most users, but I would like to have a complete database).
    Up to now I am in need of many more offset tests, the amount of feature tests are already ok. I would really appreciate your help, thanks!
    PS: If you disabled submission, it can be enabled again in EAC Options / Tools.