Exact Audio Copy

Author: Andre2

  • As the 0.9pb10 version of EAC caused again many new problems, mainly not detecting drives anymore, I released a new version quickly. I strongly recommend to download this version if you already use 0.9pb10.
    Of course I tested 0.9pb10 on my system but never encountered any problems. I use version 4.57 of ASPI, perhaps different versions make problems.
    Sorry about that…

  • I originally wanted to put out the next version as 0.9 beta, but now it only got to 0.9 prebeta 10. I force this release out as there were some major improvements and bugfixes that many users asked for day by day. It does not contain all features of 0.9 beta, but it is comes quite near, only some more additions to the wave editor are missing.
    The following main changes are made from 0.9pb9 :

    • Again many bug fixes (ID3V2 tag size for VBR header, Ricoh writing, compression in the background, etc.)
    • It is now possible to specify a different naming scheme for various artist CDs
    • The power down computer option can now be selected during extraction
    • Submission of drive features to a central database to share information with other users which don’t know the features of their drives or also to combine ones offset if several different results occured on detection.
    • ID3V2.3.0 tag support (previous version only wrote only ID3V2.4.0, which can’t be read correctly by a majority of tag/play utilities)
    • In order to access more devices on interfaces like USB, Firewire and of course IDE and SCSI drives, EAC is now able to use the ASAPI interface of VOB instead of ASPI or Native SCSI
    • If you own a multiprocessor system, you can start several encoding threads in the background to speed up compression
    • To use the newest Fraunhofer FastEnc MP3 encoder on-the-fly, EAC is now able to access the CoolEdit Pro MP3 PlugIn if copied to the EAC directory (fht.flt)
    • On external compression, the user defined encoder can use any file extension, Ogg Vorbis and RKAU are now supported as external command line encoders
    • Using Undo in processing waveform is now optional
    • EAC now uses FreeDB exclusively, to update your server list, use the “Get active FreeDB server list” function
    • Interpolation – Replace Frequency works fine now (I am quite satisfied with it now 🙂
    • EAC is able to use LAME.EXE (.MP3) and MPPDEC.EXE (.MP+ and .MPC) for decompression and for on-the-fly writing of CDs. Just copy the executables to the EAC directory. For MP3 decompression with LAME.EXE it is also necessary to either not having the MP3 Fraunhofer codec installed or to select the option in the compression options. Beware : You need the most actual versions of both programs as previous versions introduced errors in the decompression (sometimes even total trash). So decode a file once using EAC to make sure it is decoded correctly!
    • Some more smaller additions… ;))

    Hope you will like this version!
    I also tried to use the SHN Decoder shortn32.exe for on-the-fly decompression/writing in EAC, but the decompressor has some bugs making this impossible. It allows to write the decompressed output to the StdOut pipe, but it does not set the binary mode correctly. You could try it by yourself by decompressing using “shortn32 -x abc.shn – >abc.wav” , it will change endian and channels all over the file…

  • As the 0.9pb8 version of EAC caused many new problems, I decided to put out a new release in order to fix most of them. I strongly recommend to download this version if you already use 0.9pb8.
    Please note that this version store its options no longer in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE key, but now use HKEY_CURRENT_USER. No options are transported to the new location, so if you want to use your old options set, save an option profile with your current version and import that into 0.9pb9.

  • This version is also a big bugfix release, but also incorporates many new features, I hope you will like it! I will really try to give out a new version more often from now on (I know, I promised so already earlier 😉
    The following main changes are made from 0.9pb7 :

    • Again many bug fixes (File naming, CD writer module, etc.)
    • Automatic creation of CUE sheets from WAV images
    • Splitting of WAV images according to their CUE sheets
    • Option not to open external commandline encoder window
    • ID3V2 tag support (before you start reporting that the tags are unreadable, please not that EAC support already ID3V2.4.0, but most other actual applications don’t)
    • MP+ command line encoder support
    • WAV editor could use RAM for temporary data
    • Finally, C2 support for the PlexWriter series (only the newer modells)
    • Many, many smaller additions and corrections…

    The next version will be probably 0.9beta. I hope you will like the new version, please be patient for the next one, I have only some spare time for EAC…

  • Some people reported problems with the LAME DLL. It works flawless for me, so those should try to redownload it. Albert Faber just released a bugfixed LAME DLL with his CDex 1.20, download it and try that DLL. If it does still not work, please contact me again.
    The problems on SCSI bus reset during writing are still unsolved, I just removed the SCSI1HLP.VXD from my windows/system/iosubsys directory, I hope this would help somehow.

  • Sorry to say that I had to add some ad banners to these pages. This become necessary as until now I paid all webspace and internet costs by myself the last 2 years (which are per month $10 for the webspace and around $10-$20 for internet usage). Not only that I haven’t earned anything by EAC, even more I put actually money into it. And I will soon get DSL, so costs will increase even more. I thought about how to get some income for all expenses, and making EAC shareware or something like that isn’t favored by me (and probably also not by you 😉 So it seemed the best way adding some banners to my site, sorry for any inconvenience!

  • As the last version still contained many new bugs, I release a new prebeta version with most of these bugs fixed. Additionally I already implemented some smaller new features. Hope this will work better…
    The following changes are made from 0.9pb6 :

    • Again many bug fixes (LAME DLL fixes, Compression crash, ID3V1.1 Tag corrections, etc.)
    • Visiual CUE sheet editor in the wave editor
    • On the fly burning of Monkeys Audio sound files
    • Queuing of compression tasks in the background on extraction (as option, need probably some tests)

    Next updates will still take some more time, I am pretty busy at the moment.

  • Sorry that I didn’t released a new version so far, but I had plenty of work at the university and in my job. But now 0.9pb6 is finally finished. I removed many bugs lately, but of course there will be still plenty of them…
    I decided that this release and all future prebeta releases will be available again to all users, it should be stable enough to not having piles of bug reports. Further this version has ToolTips for most option dialogs that should help beginner users. From now on there will be more frequent, but smaller updates as mainly audio editor features will be improved for the next version. It is possible that the one or other feature is not perfect yet, so please report any bugs to the mailing list.
    The following changes are made from 0.9pb5 :

    • Many bug fixes (Plextor 40x Multisession (I hope it is gone), etc.)
    • Support for Sony (HP) writers
    • ToolTips help for most option dialogs
    • Additional options for LAME and Gogo DLL encoder
    • Creation of offset CDs for determing the combined read/write offset or the absolute read offset (if you know the write offset of your drive)
    • More improvements to the write layout editor
    • BurnProof support for Plextor 1210
    • Correct offset correction for MP3 compression and decompression
    • Drag and drop from the explorer to EAC (Main window will compress (WAV) or call the write module (CUE), the write window will add files as index 1 (WAV) or load a cue sheet (CUE))
    • ID3 V1.1 support
    • Direct (without previous decompression) MP3 and compressed WAV write support
    • Support for writing under Win2000 for IDE drives (that work under Win98)
    • More new features, too many to mention…

    I am sure you will enjoy it! 😉

  • I just uploaded a bugfixed 0.9pb4 version, mainly the native SCSI functions did not work that well. I hope to have fixed it now, please tell me about your experiences. This version will in every case switch the interface to ASPI (if installed), so if you want to test the native interface you have to explicit select it. I named this version to 0.9pb5 as otherwise there would be again version naming conflicts when exchanging informations.
    I also quickly added some more compression features, like Gogo DLL on-the-fly compression, Shorten and Monkey’s Audio external commandline compressors.

  • Today I release the 0.9pb4 to the public, but this was the last prebeta version I released to the public, the next ones will be non-public again. It was really a mistake to let anybody download 0.9pb3 without most people knowing what “prebeta” really means… Many think it is a full working version, but it wasn’t and also this one will contain many bugs, that’s why it is called prebeta. I just put up this version to remove most bugs of the last version.
    The following changes are made from 0.9pb3 :

    • Many bug fixes (sound output, CDDB, LAME, cd write, MMC C2, etc.)
    • Support for some more writers
    • CD-Text write support
    • FAAC (both versions) support
    • Native SCSI support for WinNT/2000
    • Many improvements to the CD write layout editor
    • Some more new features…

    Hope you enjoy it!
    The SCSI native interface could be still buggy, on my computer sometimes the data was not transferred correctly. This is visible e.g. in displaying only one track (track number 00!) with other wrong informations. This could happen after working minutes or hours without any problem. I don’t know why this happens, if anybody can recreate a situation where this always occurs, please tell me…
    Everything else should be quite clear, if there are questions please use the forum or the mailing list.
    I am on holiday from 26.3. to 16.4 visiting USA for a car trip around Texas, Colorado, Nevada, California… So please do not send any registration cards nor emails (whatever kind), as my mailboxes would explode otherwise during these three weeks… 😉 Thanks!