Exact Audio Copy 1.8

Key Features of Exact Audio Copy

Using advanced technology, EAC reads audio CDs perfectly and detects errors, indicating the exact time position of any distortions.

You don’t have to listen to the music you have ripped because Exact Audio Copy does it for you using multi-reading with verify and AccurateRip.

Most audio rippers only perform jitter correction, but Exact Audio Copy, besides correcting losses of sync, highlights non-exact corrections and allows you to listen to these portions. Speed is automatically reduced when errors are detected and, additionally, volume normalization is performed.

Other features of Exact Audio Copy include support for compression offsets to ensure precise compression and decompression, detection of silence in pre-track gaps, pre-track gap detection, and automatic creation of CUE sheets for Feurio, Burrrn, Nero, and EAC.

Additionally, EAC allows you to preview copied music with the built-in media player, browse and edit local databases, synchronize tracks for non-accurate stream drives, and offers multisession CD support, CD-text support, and glitch removal after extraction.

For more details, refer to the CD Ripping / Encoding Guide.

Advanced Editing and Reliability

Furthermore, Exact Audio Copy packs a basic WAV editor allowing you to perform various operations: normalizing, trimming, deleting, pad, glitch removal, noise reduction, interpolation of ranges, fading in and out etc.

Exact Audio Copy is extremely reliable and stable, it includes a variety of options and it focuses on smart error correction.

By using this application, you will obtain the best output and get the most out of your music CDs. Exact Audio Copy is definitely more than just a CD backup utility!

Changes to Exact Audio Copy 1.8

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.
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.

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