Exact Audio Copy is a CD audio grabber that was designed to exctract the most accurate possible audio from a CD, at the cost of lengthened copy time. It has a secure mode that causes the program to read every sector at least twice, making sure that it is retreiving the correct sample values. The program allows the user to customize the level of error correction, so that "bad" CDs can still be recovered within a reasonable amount of time.

Features

• Uses the ASPI interface, so both SCSI and ATAPI CD-ROM drives are supported
• Hidden sector synchronization (jitter correction)
• Secure, fast and burst extraction method selectable. Fast extraction should get the same speed as other grabbers, but may not return exact results. Burst mode just grabs the audio data without any synchronization.
• Read error and complete loss of sync detection and correction (in secure mode)
• Unrecoverable time positions are logged and can be listened to
• Ranges of music data can be copied (not only tracks)
• Automatic Speed reduction on errors and fallback afterwards
• Normalization of extracted audio
• Usage of the Windows Audio Compression Manager (ACM Codecs) for direct compression (for compressed WAVE and MP3 formats, etc.)
• Support for the BladeEnc DLL which can be used like an ACM Codec for online MP3 compression
• Support of external MP3 encoders for automatic compression after extraction
• Detection of pre-track gaps and silence in pre-track gaps
• Automatic creation of CUE sheets for CDRWin, including all gaps, indicies, track attributes, UPC and ISRC
• CD player functionality with preview listening to selected ranges
• Automatic drive detection features, including a drives stream accuracy and caching availability
• Sample Offsets for drives with out accurate streaming, including the option to fill in missing samples with silence
• Option for synchronizing tracks for drives with out accurate streaming
• Filename editing with local and remote CDDB database and cdplayer.ini support and more features such as ID3 tagging
• Lyric database support from www.lyrics.ch
• Browse and edit local database information
• Small WAV editor with functions for delete, trim, normalize, pad, glitch removal, pop detection, interpolation of ranges, noise reduction, fade in/out, undo and more

Requirements

• Windows 95/98/NT
• CD-ROM which is capable of extracting digital audio (IDE-ATAPI or SCSI drive)
• Adaptec's ASPI manager (included in Windows 9x)