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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…

Release Date of version 0.3beta
This new beta is forced to come out, because version 0.2beta made problems on a huge number of computers.
Main problems was “Access Violation” and “ASPI interface could not be initialized”. These errors are still in EAC, but it should run on more computers again. I still don’t know why the ASPI Interface often could not be initialized (This is not only a bug in my program – try starting ASPICHK from Adaptec. On my computer it always shows the same intialization failure). Have a try with different ASPI versions to install.
The new version includes

• Normalization of extracted audio
• Safety check for available harddisk space
• Compile-time dynamic linking of the ASPI interface
• more or less bugs 😉

I recognized that EAC won’t work on many computer having either an “Access Violation” or an error message “ASPI interface could not be initialized”. I’m already working on this problem and I hope to bring out a new bug-fixed version on 22-July.
Interfacing the ASPI dll caused these problems, because my compiler has not a C compatible parameter passing. So I will use compile-time dynamic linking in that version. I hope it will work.
Normalization is nearly done and probably also in the new version.

Release Date of version 0.2beta
including

• Copy of ranges of audio cds
• Fast reading mode
• Still some bugs
• New homepage
  This “Whats New” page will updated more often than the downloads

Back from my one week england holiday 😉

Release Date of version 0.1beta
including

• Secure reading mode
• Emulate deactivate cache
• ACM CODEC support
• Hidden sector synchronization
• Usage of the Win 95/NT ASPI Interface
• A lot of bugs