Exact Audio Copy

Author: Andre2

  • Release Date of version 0.6beta
    I hope this is a pretty stable version and that the main feature, the CDDB support will work properly.
    The new version includes

    • Remote CDDB database support
    • Listen to suspicious positions
    • Glitch removal
    • Fix of speed detection and selection
    • Browse and edit of the local database
    • Spindown on errors and fallback afterwards
    • Some bug fixes, some new bugs
    • Update of almost all my webpages, but still no real private homepage… It will be done as soon I find time next week… 😉
    • Moved old versions to a subdirectory, because some web pages still points to these old versions like 0.1beta or 0.2beta…

    Development will slow down a little bit, because at the moment there is lot of other work to do at the university (that start again next week), preperations for examinations and seminars, furthermore I still have to work besides to earn some money.
    But really bad is that yesterday my nice Plextor TSI 12/20 cdrom drive killed itself somehow. The drive will not accept any CDs anymore and sometimes the red LED flashes five times, over and over again. This will delay development at least some weeks, I hope I find my guarantee billet, I don’t want to buy a new drive… 🙁

  • I am back from holidays… The holidays at home were nice (of course not as nice as REAL holidays…), I did a lot of cycling and relaxing.
    I just got informed that there is a bug when using the Fraunhofer Codec and selecting 48 kHz samplerate… You shouldn’t use it until 48 kHz mode is fixed (or removed)…
    The expected release date is still 1.10.98… Only smaller things to do and some bugs to fix.

  • Now I have completed nearly all new features, only some more fixes to ‘Listen to possible Errors’. There is still some work to do, e.g. in this ‘Listen’ dialog it will be possible to remove glitches from the wave (only if uncompressed). Of course this will remove only glitches, that means if only one sample is out of the stream and create by this a pop, it will be removed by the routine. I plan to also add a routine to remove pops that are bigger and burried in the sound… But not in this version. Expected release date for version 0.6beta is 1.10.98, because I want wait for the people at CDDB to check the CDDB support to be bug-free…
    Important:
    I will go on holidays tomorrow (only some holidays at home (where I come from, not here at the university) :(, that means I am not able to respond to mail until 27.9.98… Please be patient.

  • I am still working on CDDB routines, but I already finished CDDBP support (hopefully), still lacking HTTP support. I hope to finish the rest of it in a week, so I could send the admins of CDDB a pre-beta version to get an ok for public release. Meanwhile I will work on the rest of the new features, that also should be finished until end of september, that will be a release date of the next version. Of course it could be a week more or less… If I know an exact date, I will publish it here.
    I need more informations on Offset Sample feature, so please help me to improve it. If you own a Plextor drive (12x or more) then test all CDs you own in the list on the Technology page. Get the sample offset of each CD (should(!) be 0 on all Plextors) and send it to me together with the code written on the inner ring on the back of the CD (e.g. 532 618-2 02) and the title of the CD. Thanks…

  • Release Date of version 0.5beta
    A few days ago I saw that the program crashes on some systems, even the version 0.4beta. Damn. Why didn’t anyone told me that this happened? Now it is too late for this version to fix it. I will have some tests if I can get hold of such a computer. I have to install my complete programming environment and then debug the whole thing… It still seems to be a problem with the ASPI interface.
    The new version includes

    • Local CDDB database
    • Import/Export of cdplayer.ini entries
    • Filename construction and ID3 Tags
    • Sample Offset detection and correction
    • Speed detection and selection. This feature was made in a hurry and will work or not. It should show up the possible speeds in the selection box. If you think, that the values are not correct or the speed actually read is faster than the selected, please tell me!
    • Beep or eject CD after task finished
    • Some more safety checks and other stuff
    • Two more extraction methods
    • Still old bugs
    • Update of almost all my webpages
    • Making all old versions available for download

    I am not able to read or answer mails until next monday, so please be patient…

  • I have nearly finished the local CDDB and Cdplayer.ini support. I will try to finish both speed selection and sample offsets until expected release date 26.8.98, but I can’t promise. It’s a problem to me, testing my speed selection routines with my drives and my ASPI interface..

  • I am terribly sorry, by accident I changed the link to EAC v0.4beta back to v0.3beta…
    It is now fixed again… Sorry…

    The student server will go down next weekend. It should be up again on monday morning.

  • Release Date of version 0.4beta
    At first I have to excuse me about a speed calculation bug. The calculation uses a wrong constant and the result was slightly higher (to be precise, 1.176 times higher). So this is now fixed and the cd-rom drive table is updated. I just wanted to tell, because otherwise some will think the program is getting slower.
    I hope to have found the solution of the ASPI bug, not showing up any drives, but I will wait if this is correct. ASPI Error EBh still comes up in some versions of ASPI, sorry.
    The new version includes

    • CD player functions and prelistening to ranges
    • Detection of pre-track gaps/li>
    • Burst extraction method/li>
    • Some new bugs/li>

      • New known bugs are

      • The detection of pre-track gaps will take far too long on some computers (usually it should take a second per track). I will need some more tests on these computers. The detected values are not 100% correct in these cases./li>
      • Find out yourself…/li>

  • Our student server was down yesterday. If somebody send me an e-mail that I haven’t answered yet, please re-sent the e-mail.

  • I have nearly finished two new features of EAC: CD player functions and gap length determination.
    All CD rippers, I know of, will append the gap between two audio tracks to the previous track. My program will now analyze the CD and determine the length of each gap. It will be possible to append the gap or to left it out.
    These two features are surely in 0.4beta (it will take a week more until next update), but I will try also to implement block offsets for non-accurate stream drives. I don’t know if I could do the spindown already in this version…