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- This is the content of the EAC homepage at http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
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- Exact Audio Copy
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-
- Introduction
-
- EAC is a new audio grabber for CD-ROM drives. The main differences towards
- most other audio grabbers :
-
- * Low registration costs (just a postcard and a stamp)
- * It works with a new technology, reading audio CDs almost perfectly. If
- there are any errors that can't be corrected, it will tell you on
- which time position the (possible) distortion occurred, so you could
- easily control it with e.g. the media player
-
- I am writing this software, because I am fed up with these other audio
- grabbers. I always had to listen to all grabbed waves, because other audio
- grabbers will do only jitter correction but CD-ROM drives reading scratched
- CDs often produce distortions. Listen to all waves would be a waste of
- time. So in march I decided to write my own audio grabber, mainly for my
- and my friends private usage. So if you don't like this software - don't
- use it! I don't want to make any profit with it, I just want to use (and
- share) the best grabber (that's in my eyes the most exact grabber) ever
- programmed. Most important for me is feedback from the users, more about
- that later at registration chapter.
-
-
- Features of EAC
-
- * Usage of the Windows 95 and Windows NT 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 is probably not exact
- anymore. Burst mode just grabs the audio data without any
- synchronization.
- * Read error and complete lost of sync detection and correction in
- secure modes, as far as possible
- * Output of time positions of all non exact corrections and listen to
- these positions
- * Copy of ranges of music data, 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 e.g. to MP3 waves
- * Support for the BladeEnc DLL that is usable like an ACM Codec for
- online MP3 compression
- * Support of external MP3, VQF, RA and AAC encoders for automatic
- compression after extraction
- * Batch compression and decompression of/to WAV files
- * Compression offset support for exact compression/decompression
- * Detection of pre-track gaps
- * Detection of silence in pre-track gaps
- * Automatic creation of CUE sheets for CDRWin, including all gaps,
- indicies, track attributes, UPC and ISRC
- * CD player functionality and prelistening to selected ranges
- * Automatic detection of drive features, whether a drive has an accurate
- stream and/or does caching
- * Sample Offsets for drives with no accurate streams, including the
- option of filling up missing samples with silence
- * Option for synchronizing tracks for non-accurate stream drives
- * Filename editing with local and remote CDDB database and cdplayer.ini
- support and more features like ID3 tagging
- * Lyric database support from www.lyrics.ch
- * Browse and edit local database
- * Certified Escient « CDDB(TM) Compatible
- * Local CDDB support
- * Record and Loop Record functions for recording from LP, radio, etc.
- * Automatic rename of MP3 files according to their ID3 tag
- * Catalog extraction function
- * Multisession (CD-Extra) support
- * CD-Text support
- * ID3 Tag editor with drag and drop possibility from track listing and
- database
- * Glitch removal after extraction
- * 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
- * Program is Cardware, so feel free to copy
-
- Known Bugs
-
- * On some computers the whole system hangs after a short period of time.
- I didn't find the solution to this problem yet, because it never
- happend on my computer. It is possible that any cd-player program
- causes these problems. So try to stop any play in progress before
- starting EAC.
- * On some CD-ROM drives occur extreme jitter errors so the extraction
- will slow down to a non acceptable value (e.g. Mitsumi FX240)
-
-
-
-
- About Me
-
- I am a student of computer science and mathematics here at the University
- of Dortmund. At the moment I have some preparations on aural examinations.
- Beside the usual work at the university as a student, I started work for
- VOB (CDWizard) on Jukebox driver and additions for CD-Wizard.
- In my spare time I like spending time with my friends and playing computer
- and board games. Of course I also work on some computer projects like this
- one. Further I do a lot of sports like cycling, walking, inline skating and
- some martial arts.
- I am using now a Pentium II 400, total of 2.5 GB IDE harddisks, 4.3 GB SCSI
- harddisk, 256 MB RAM, Plextor 14/32 CD-ROM drives, Teac R56S-600 CD-R
- drive, Asus V3400 TNT 16 MB video card, Creative SB Live! soundcard,
- Windows 98 and Stony Brook Modula 2.
-
-
-
-
- Extraction Technology
-
- In secure mode, this program reads every audio sector at least twice. That
- is one reason why the program is so slow. But by using this technique
- non-identical sectors are detected. If an error occurs (read or sync
- error), the program keeps on reading this sector, until eight of 16 retries
- are identical, but at maximum one, three or five times (according to the
- error recovery quality) these 16 retries are read. So, in the worst case,
- bad sectors are read up to 82 times! But this will help the program to
- obtain best result by comparing all of the retries. If it is not sure that
- the stream is correct (at least it can be said at approx. 99.5%) the
- program will tell the user where the (possible) read error occurred. The
- program also tries to adjust the jitter artefacts that occur on the first
- block of a track, so that each extraction should be exactly the same. On
- drives found to have the "accurate stream" feature, this is guaranteed. Of
- course, this is a little bit more complex, especially with some CD drives
- which have caching. When these drives cache audio data, every sector read
- will be read from cache and is identical. I initially implemented two ways
- of dealing with the caching problem. First there is an extra option for
- resetting the cache for use the the old secure mode (the one being kept for
- compatibility reasons). In the current beta version, the cache will still
- be reset by resetting the drive completely. You might imagine that this
- would slow down the reading process very badly.
- That is why I implemented three new read modes in version 0.85beta. One
- really fast mode (up to half of maximum speed) is only for non-caching,
- accurate stream cdrom drives. The second one could be used for caching,
- accurate stream drives and the last one will work with drives that don't
- have accurate streams, or do caching. The last two will be much slower,
- when no read errors occur it will usually something around a third to a
- fourth of the drives maximum speed.
- For my testing, I am using a Plextor 14/32 drive that does no caching and a
- Teac R56S-600 drive that does caching. Furthermore the Plextor 14/32
- supports the "accurate stream" feature, so it produces no jitter artifacts
- on any stream. For more information on this have a look at the table at the
- end of this document.
- This program is really damn slow in secure mode in comparison with other
- grabbers, but the program checks every sector over and over to get the
- correct data with high certainty. If you don't like this feature of EAC and
- prefer fast copies instead of secure copies, you should use the fast or
- burst extraction option in the options menu. But of course in fast mode,
- the program will no longer be able to find read errors. Only if a read
- error occurs in a sector synchronization area, will a sync error will still
- be displayed. Fast mode is sector synchronized with 2 blocks of 23 as
- synchronization blocks. Burst copy is even worse, no synchronization is
- done, enabling extraction at maximum speed of the drive. No error checking
- of any kind can be performed. At least I implemented a small help. If the
- stream ever breaks, it will tell the user in the status report by showing
- up suspicous positions. Of course this is only heuristic; there needn't be
- any errors on that positions; moreover there could be errors that are not
- found at all.
- A new option for selecting the error recovery quality will determine how
- often these blocks of 16 reads will be done before giving up and working
- with the results obtained so far. For bad CDs, low error recovery quality
- will be fastest, but high recover quality should give best results.
-
-
- Gap Technology
-
- In the new versions of EAC it is possible to detect pre-track gaps. These
- are the pauses between two tracks. Usually they are two seconds long and a
- cd player will display a negative time during this pause. By enabling the
- option 'Detect Pre-Track Gaps' it will be possible to detect all
- gap-lengths by reading the sub-channel informations. Because this
- information is not stored on the cd directly retrievable, EAC has to search
- for the position a track ends. This search is quite fast, but it still
- takes on average a second per track. That's why I made it possible to
- diable it in the options. Besides that option you can choose to add the
- gaps to the previous track nevertheless. Otherwise you can choose either to
- append the gap to the correct track or to leave it out . A benefit of
- performing the detection and getting the gap times is the selection of a
- range to copy. There the correct times will be displayed. A last word on
- this topic: because these pre-track gaps are found out by testing
- positions, it could occur that not 100% exact values are calculated, but in
- most cases it will be correct.
-
-
- Automatic Feature Detection Technology
-
- From version 0.8 beta on it is possible to autodetect cd-rom drive
- features. For each drive the program builds a separate drive options page.
- On this option page this function can be called.
- There are two different features that will be checked by EAC, first if the
- stream is accurate and second if the drive caches audio(!) data. Even if
- the drive has a cache (drive specifications), it does not automatically
- means that the drive uses that cache also for audio extractions.
- The test for the accurate stream feature should be always correct, but
- testing on cache will give some problems with drives that extracts audio
- very slowly (under 4X speed). If results are uncertain (given e.g. two
- different results on different tests), you should assume that the drive
- does caching. The new secure mode for non-accurate and/or caching drives
- should work for all drives. The other new read modes are only something
- faster. If testing on accurate stream will give only sometimes a negative
- result, then you could nevertheless try to use the accurate secure mode.
-
-
- Track Synchronization Technology
-
- Usually cd audio extraction programs will extract one track after another.
- This could make some problems on CD-ROM drives that are not accurate on a
- CD which has no gaps. When this option is enabled in the EAC options, EAC
- will synchronize a track with a preceeding track if there is no silence at
- the track junction, so track transitions will be free from jitter artefacts
- (e.g. on live recordings).
-
-
- Offset Technology
-
- 'Sample Offset' is another new feature of EAC. Because most drives lack the
- 'accurate stream' feature, it will help to get always the same wavs as
- another reader. Some drives can not position the head correctly. That means
- if the program tells the drive to read block 10000 it will probably read
- data somewhere in block 9998 instead. But this is not visible to the
- reading program, it won't know if it is really the data it wanted. Usually
- the head will be set always to a fixed offset before or after the correct
- read position. So it is possible to detect this offset once and use it for
- all CDs coming afterwards. Because it is a hard task to determine the exact
- absolute offset for each drive, I determined it once on my Plextor 14/32.
- To find out the offset of any other drive the offset is calculated relative
- to that absolute offset. To implement an offset detection for other drives
- I took some bytes from some common CDs I and my friends own. These are the
- reference each CD-ROM drive has to compare with. Of course I have
- implemented only a limited selection of CDs that can be used to detect this
- offset, a list follows below. Sometimes there are different versions
- (releases) of the same CD, but only the same press like the one I used will
- work. That is why in the table below show also a code, that is written on
- the inner ring of the music CD, that should identify the release of a CD.
- The red codes are from CDs that does not work with this test. In time I
- will add more CDs to test this offset. Drives that have jitter are
- furthermore not able to position their heads correctly. So you should
- activate the secure or fast extraction method and moreover if your drive
- does caching, activate no-caching emulation. The 'Searching Track Start'
- algorithm tries to find the correct start position even if jitter occurs.
- But this is not always possible, mainly if the drive jitters too much. But
- it can be shown that nearly 80% of the reads will get the same results. A
- drive's characteristic offset can be found automatically from the CD from
- on the list of reference CDs. Because of the mentioned jitter error the
- value given back is also not 100% sure. You should start the test several
- times and remember to activate emulate no-caching if necessary. Then you
- should get one value that occurs more often than other values. YOU SHOULD
- USE THIS TEST ON TWO DIFFERENT CDS AT LEAST! BOTH TESTS SHOULD GIVE BACK
- THE SAME VALUE! My Plextor 14/32 has an offset value of +679 samples, that
- means that 679 samples usually are missing at the end of a wav file.
- As different modells of common CD-R writer usually do not add the same
- offset on writing, it seems that also big CD manufactures also do not
- always press the same offset on their CDs. So I determined the most common
- offset of pressed CDs and integrated it into the offset detection routines.
-
-
- List of Included Reference CDs
-
- 2 Unlimited Hits Unlimited MXCD-680 #2 - 011596
- 2 Unlimited Real Things ZYX 20302-2 02
-
- 4 Non Blondes Bigger, Better, 756792112-2
- Faster, More!
- ABBA Gold - Greatest Hits 517007-202
- ABBA The Hits 3 PWKS 507
- AC/DC Ballbreaker 755961780-2
-
- Ace Of Base Happy Nation - U.S. SONOPRESS H-5328 / MRCD3239
- Version A
- Adiemus Songs Of Sanctuary
- Alan's Wrench Alan's Wrench L806 7983 PR720 U00120-06A
- Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill 936245901-2.2 WME
- Alice Cooper The Last Temptation 01-476594-1013
- All Saints All Saints 556004-2 01
- Andrea Bocelli Romanza 5337902 02 &
- Angelic Upstarts Reason Why GRAM CD 004 MPO 01
- Anouk Urban Solitude DNCD 99680
- Anthrax Spreading The Disease 3 90480-2 SRC-01
-
- Art Garfunkel The Art Garfunkel 1004611A4
- Album
- Art Of Noise The Ambient Collection 450996098-2
- Astral Projection The Astral Files ABLEX 83367 TRANR 607
- Astral Projection Trust In Trance IMPRESSTIPCD5 01 6
- Back Street Boys Millennium A0100279604-0101
- Bad Religion Stranger Than Fiction 12-477343-10 12
-
- Billy Joel River Of Dreams 01-473872-10 11
- probably wrong offset
- Blind Guardian The Forgotten Tales 8416262@1
-
- Blind Guardian Nightfall In Middle EMI UDEN 8458992 @ 1
- Earth
-
- Blind Guardian Immaginations From The 840332 2 @ 1
- Other Side
- Blondie The Complete Picture 321817
- Blur 13 UDEN 4991292 @ 1
- Bjork Debut 521 323-202
- Bjork Homogenic 539166-2 01
- Bob Marley & The
- Wailers Legend BMWCD! 846 210-2
- Bob Mintzer Urban Contours CD-467 21
- Bobo In Thite Wodden
- Range Cosmic Ceiling
- Body Count Born Dead 839802 2 @ 1
- Bon Jovi Crossroad 522 936-2 0117-468451-1021
- Britney Spears Baby One More Time A100272308 0101
- Bruce Hornsvy And The
- Range The Way It Is
- Bruce Springsteen The Ghost Of Tom Joad S01481650101-0101 11
-
- Bypass Unit Dropz Of Obscure A0100280627-0101 14
- Eclipses
- Bypass Unit Green Dreams L791 148425-2XR2-6286-A
- Bypass Unit On A Trance-Mission L792 136987-R4-5272-2
- Caetano Veloso Livro 536 584-2 01 /
- Canned Heat The Best Of CDP 793114 2AR7
- Cappella The Remixes ZYX 20305-2 02
- Cappella U Got 2 Know 828 486-2 - 00 L7
- Cappella War In Heaven 532 626-2 - 00 L7
- Celine Dion Falling Into You S0148379210- 0101
- Celine Dion Let's Talk About Love S0148915910-0101 182
- Celine Dion The Colour Of My Love 4747432
- Chase Barefoot L062 74321522692
-
- Chemical Brothers Brothers Gonna Work It EMI UDEN 8465992 @ 1
- Out
- Chi Coltrane The Best Of CDCBS-463304 31
- Chris de Burgh Beautiful Dreams L003 540 432-2 01
- Chris de Burgh Best Moves
- Chris Isaak Heart Shaped World 925837-2 RSA
- Clannad Legend PD 70188 2893 644 01 #
- Clanned Magical Ring B-7664/PD 70003
- Colorbox Train To Chroma City L792 157701-W1-7252-A
-
- Cranberries Everybody Else Is 514 156-2 00A L7
- Doing It, So...
- Cranberries No Need To Argue 524051-2
- Crash Test Dummies God Shuffled His Feet H-6338/4321165312 B1
- Crosby, Stills, Nash &
- Young Deja Vu 756782649-2.2 WME
-
- Culture Club The Best Of Culture
- Club
- Cyndi Lauper She's So Unusual DIDP-10088 41
- Daryl Hall & John
- Oates H2O PD 84383 2893 851 04 #
- David Bowie Hours... 8481572/1
- Dean Martin That's Amore LORDISC/CD 0224 01
- Depeche Mode 101 (CD 1) C-6402/881800-1 A
- Depeche Mode 101 (CD 2) C-6403/881800-2 A
- Depeche Mode A Broken Frame
- Depeche Mode Black Celebration
-
- Depeche Mode Construction Time
- Again
- Depeche Mode Some Great Reward
-
- Depeche Mode Songs Of Faith And
- Devotion
- Depeche Mode Speak & Spell
-
- Depeche Mode Depeche Mode - The CD 1 : 4845742@1
- Singles 86-98 CD 2 : 4845752@1
- Des'ree Supernatural S0100249129-0101 29
- DEUS The Ideal Crash 524 643-2 01
- Die Fantastischen Vier 499 S4942386000-0101 35
- Dire Straits CommuniquΘ 800 052_2 70 L7
- Dire Straits Love Over Gold
- Donald Fagen Kamakiriad 936245230-2 WME
- Donald Fagen The Nightfly 1 23696-2 SRC+06 M3S14
- Doris Norton Techno Shock SCD 129 PHC
- Doris Norton Techno Shock 3 SCD 180 PHC
- Dream Theater Awake 756790126-2 WME
- Dream Theater Images And Words 756792148-2 WME
- EA80 Zweihundertzwei P+O-8884-A2
- Earth, Wind & Fire Gratitude S 0246684310-0101 54
- East 17 Steam 828 542-2 01
-
- Eddy Grant Walking On Sunshine CDP 792562 2 AR.3 EMI
- SWINDON
- Elton John Sleeping With The Past DIDX-005994 1
- Emerson, Lake & Palmer Brain Salad Surgery 258174 A
- Enigma The Cross Of Changes H-5504-1/8392362
- Enya The Memory Of Trees 063012879-2 WME
- Enya Watermark 246006-2 RSA
- Eric Clapton Eric Clapton Unplugged 936245024-2
- Eric Clapton Pilgrim 936246577-2 01/98
- Eric Clapton Strictly The Blues
- Eric Clapton Timepieces 8000142 04
- Eurythmics Greatest Hits W.O. 17073-10V
- Everything But The
- Girl Walking Wounded
- Exodus Fabulous Disaster 88651-2001-2/2001-2-11
- F.Mercury & M.Caballe Barcelona 837277-201
- F.R. David Greatest Hits
- Falco Falco 3 229244362-2.2 WME
- Falco Greatest Hits Z-0614/4321654852 A
- Falco The Hit-Singles L012 398423479-2 05/98
- Fine Young Cannibals The Raw & The Cooked 828 069-2 01
- Fisher Z Going Red For A Salad CDP 794132 2 AR 1
- Fischer Z The Best EMI UDEN 8351902 @ 4
- Fleetwood Mac Behind The Mask 1 26111-2 SRC=01 CD+G
- Fleetwood Mac Greatest Hits 25801-2 01!
- Fleetwood Mac Tango In The Night 925 471-2 SRC-02
-
- Flowers For Breakfast Baron Samedi Conducts 534 051-2 50600146 01
- The Onion
- Fool's Garden Dish Of The Day L046 8225442 @4
- Foreigner Records 756780999-2.2 R
-
- Francesco De Gregori Il Bandito E Il SERR 473996-2
- Campione
- Frank Zappa Freak Out! ZAP 1 MPO 01 @@
- Frankie Goes To Welcome To The
- Hollywood Pleasuredome 450994745-2 WME
- Fugees The Score S0100184186-0101 12
-
- Garbage Garbage SONOPRESS M-0650/4321295972
- A
- Genesis Calling All Stations 8446072 @1
- Genesis Invisible
- Genesis We Can't Dance SONOPRESS F-6901 / GENCD3 B
- Georges Brassens Master Serie 832 050-2 L7
- George Michael Faith CDEPC-460000 41
- George Michael And
- Queen Five Live 789 418 2@1
- George Michael Older 841392 2 @ 2
- Gloria Estefan Into The Light 1A EK 46988 12 B
- Gloria Estefan Mi Tierra 1A EK 53807 16 C1
-
- Gloria Gaynor The Very Best Of L134 5196652 02
- Gloria Gaynor
-
- Golden Earring The Very Best Of DURECO/01.2901.61 01.
- 1965-1976
- Goya & Carmina Noche Latina EOD CDM01 PHON 510.076-2
- Grace Jones Nightclubbing 253 481 A
- Grace Jones Slave To The Rhythm 842 612-2 00 L7
- Guano Apes Don't Give Me Names A-24366/4321752232A
-
- Guns'N'Roses Appetite For F-0932/GED24148B
- Destruction
-
- Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion I SONOPRESS F-5328 / GED24415
- B1
- Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion II DIDX-010510 3
- H-Blockx Time To Move I-3486/4321187512D
-
- Haddaway The Album - 2nd H-5797-1/4321182752 D
- Edition
- Haddaway The Drive 991950127728 - 1526-A
- Harold Faltermeyer Harold F 255951-2 EM 1 .
- Harry Belafonte My Greatest Songs G3647/4321107302 A1
-
- Helloween Keeper Of The Seven N 0061 MPO 01 @@ 9
- Keys-Part I
- Helloween Master Of The Rings I-5687/CSC7150-2 A
- Henry Mancini The Pink Panther BPCD5091 # 01
-
- Herbert Tachezi J.S.Bach, Toccata U. 903174780-2
- Fugue
- Herman Van Veen Harlekijn 833 240-2 01*
- Hole Live Through This GEFD24631 05
-
- Hot Chocolate Platinum (The Very 827311 2@2
- Best Of)
- INXS The Greatest Hits 526 230-2 01
-
- Iron Maiden Fear Of The Dark CDP 799161 2 AO @ 2 -1 -6
- NL
- Israel Philharmonic Peter Tchaikovsky -
- Orchestra 1812 Overture 415 379-2 02 #
-
- Jacques Brel De 24 Grootste 837 297-2 02
- Successen
- James Horner Back To Titanic S0106 069110 - 0101
- James Newton Howard &
- Friends Rock Instrumentals CD23 W.O. # 9569-1
- Jamiroquai Synkronized S 0100280704-0101 51
-
- Janet Jackson Design Of A Decade 540 400-2 03 /
- 1986 - 1996
- Janet Jackson The Velvet Rope 84476229
- Jean-Michel Jarre Chronologie 519 373-2 01
- Jean-Michel Jarre En Attendant Cousteau FDM 843624-2 MPO 01 @@
- Jean-Michel Jarre Magnetic Fields 800 024-2 04 +
- Jean-Michel Jarre Oxygene 800 015-2 04 *
- Jean-Michel Jarre Oxygene 7-13 S 0 100208238-0101 22
- Jean-Michel Jarre Revolutions DCO 837421-2 MPO 02 @@
- Jean-Michel Jarre The Concerts In China CD 2: 811 553-2 05 #
- Jean-Michel Jarre Zoolook DCO 824750 2 MPO 02 @@@
-
- Jeff Buckley Sketches For My S0148866110-0102 13
- Sweetheart (CD 1)
-
- Jeff Buckley Sketches For My S0148866110-0202 11
- Sweetheart (CD 2)
- Jennifer Rush Credo
- Jennifer Rush Movin'
- Jimmy Page Robert Walking Into
- Plant Clarksdale 558 025-2
- Joan Armatrading The Very Best Of 397 122-2 02
- Joan Osborne Relish 526 699-2 01
- Joe Cocker Organic
- Joe Jackson Big World 396 021-2 04 #
- Joe Jackson Body And Soul 395 000 2 00 L7
- Joe Jackson Heaven & Hell S 0 100224073-0101 14
- Joe Jackson Laughter & Lust F-1952/CD VUS34 A
- Joe Jackson Look Sharp! 393 187-2 04 #
- Joe Jackson Night And Day 394 906-2 00 L7
- Joe Jackson Night Music 39880-2 MO L4722 F
- John Coltrane Giant Steps 812272399-2 05/98
- John McLaughlin, Al Di Friday Night In San
- Meola, Pa Francisco 800 047-2 02
-
- John McLaughlin Trio Live At The Royal 834 436-2 01
- Festival Hall
- John Miles Rebel 820 080-2 03
- Kate Bush Hounds Of Love
- Kate Bush The Red Shoes
- Kate Bush The Sensual World
- Kate Bush The Whole Story 46414
- Keb' Mo' Just Like You S0148411710-0101
- Keith Jarrett Concerts 827 286-2 01 #
- Keith Jarrett Invocations (Disk 1) 825 474-2 01 #
- Keith Jarrett Spheres 827 463-2 01 *
- Keith Jarrett The K÷ln Concert 810 067-2 09#
-
- Keith Jarrett The Moth And The Flame 825 475-2 01 #
- (Disk 2)
- Kid Creole & The
- Coconuts The Best Of ODF 28036-2
- King Sunny Ade Juju Music 254770 A
- Kiss Alive II (CD 1) 830 932-2 03@
- Kiss Alive II (CD 2) 830 933-2 02%
- Kiss Revenge 848 037-2 01%
-
- Kruder & Dorfmeister The K & D Sessions - SNV K 7073 CDA 02
- Disc 1
-
- Kruder & Dorfmeister The K & D Sessions - K7073CD B-II #1
- Disc 2
- Ladysmith Black
- Mambazo Best Of SH 43098 16208A 02%
- Ladysmith Black
- Mambazo Shaka Zulu 2 25582 @1
-
- Lauryn Hill Miseducation Of Lauryn S0148984310 0101
- Hill
- Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV 3 19129-2 SRC=21
- Led Zeppelin Remasters (CD 1) 756780415-2/1.4 06/99
- Led Zeppelin Remasters (CD 2) 756780415-2/2.6 06/99
- Lenny Kravitz Mama Said 786209 2@1
- Leonard Cohen So Long, Marianne
- Leonard Cohen Songs Of Love And Hate CDCBS-32219 12
- Level 42 A Physical Presence 825 677-2 02 #
- Level 42 Love Games 821 935-2 02 #
- Ligabue Ligabue (Primo Album) 9031-71560-2
- Litfiba El Diablo 9031-72780-2
- Litfiba Mondi Sommersi EMI 8557422
- Lorenzo 1999 Capo Horn 546 170-2
- Lou Reed New York 759925829-2
- Madonna Bedtime Stories 936245767-2 WME
- Madonna Like A Prayer
- Madonna Like A Vigrin WEA 9 25181-2
- Madonna Ray Of Light 936246847-2
- Madonna The First Album 23867-2@1
- Manowar Fighting The World 756790563-2 WME
- Manowar Kings Of Metal 756781930-2 WME
- Manowar Triumph Of Steel 756782423-2.2 WME
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- McLaughlin, Di Meola, Friday Night In San
- De Lucia Francisco 800 047-2 02
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-
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- (Disc 1) BOX1-1 A
-
- Mike Oldfield Mike Oldfield Boxed SONOPRESS D-1380/CDBOX1-2 A
- (Disc 2)
-
- Mike Oldfield Mike Oldfield Boxed SONOPRESS D-6487/CDBOX1-3 A
- (Disc 3)
- Mike Oldfield Music Wonderland
-
- Mike Oldfield Orchestral Tubular S VVIPD 101 01
- Bells
-
- Mike Oldfield The Songs Of Distant
- Earth
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-
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- True
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-
- Murray Head Watching Ourselves Go 846 405-2 00 L7
- By
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-
- Musical Highlights From Miss
- Saigon
-
- Musical Highlights From The
- Phantom Of The Opera
- Musical West Side Story
- Nat King Cole The Unforgettable CDP 7992302
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-
- Nik Kershaw The Best Of Nik
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-
- Peggy Lee All-Time Greatest Hits 77379-2 MO L3106K
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-
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- REC.)
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- Queen The Works CDP 746016 2 AR.4
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- R.E.M. UP 9362-47112-2
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- Rancid ...And Out Come The A0100183294-0101 21
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- Ray Brown & Laurindo
- Almeida Moonlight Serenade 123/1CD 504071
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- Rexanthony Cocorico 2 SCD240 PHC 1420-B
-
- Rexanthony Earthquake CD1 1840AN1 REX005-CD/1 5218
- 7414
-
- Rexanthony Earthquake CD2 1840A1N REX005-CD/2 1228
- 7419
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- Rexanthony Techno Shock 4 SCD 220 PHC
-
- Rexanthony Techno Shock 5 - SCD 270 PHC 01 @
- Future Shock 5
-
- Rexanthony Techno Shock 6 - 1840589 PHC SCD 400 1609-A
- Future Shock 6
- Rexanthony Techno Shock Seven 1840773 REX001 4416
-
- Robert Miles Dreamland (First DBX030 - 1622-A
- Edition)
- Rolling Stones Bridges To Babylon 8449092 @1
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- Roxette Joyride 796048 2 A0 2
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- Sade The Best Of Sade
- Samhain Initium A31.203.009.002.0 @ 1
- Santana Supernatural Z-7133/7822190802
-
- Scooter Rough And Tough And A708844-01
- Dangerous CD1
-
- Scooter Rough And Tough And A708844-02
- Dangerous CD2
- Sesamstrasse Live 1-2-3...Wir TrΣumen! A15112/4321714522
- Sex Pistols Flogging A Dead Horse CDV 2142 / B-5399 A
- Shania Twain Come On Over 558000-2 01
- Simple Minds Glittering Prize
-
- Simple Minds The Street Fighting
- Years
-
- Sisters Of Mercy First And Last And 240616-2
- Always
- Sisters Of Mercy Floodland 242246-2
-
- Sisters Of Mercy Some Girls Wander By 9031-76476-2
- Mistake
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- Skeptiker Harte Zeiten 084-80262
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- Sonic Youth Goo 0064536000000 01
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- Soundtrack
- Sesamstrasse 25 Hits Aus 25 Jahren T-9135/4321542342A
- Soundtrack Armageddon
- Soundtrack Evita 936246450 -2
-
- Sountrack Once Upon A Time In C-2618/ND71704D
- The West
- Soundtrack Pretty Woman 793492 2 AR 4
- Soundtrack Star Trek Insurrection GNPD 8059-2
- Soundtrack The Bodyguard G-5872/7822186992A
-
- Soundtrack The Rocky Horror
- Picture Show
-
- Soundtrack Titanic S0100239681-0101
- S0106321310-0101
- Soundtrack The Matrix 936247390-2 03/99
- Soundtrack - Music
- From The Motion The Matrix 6026.2 P+O-42759-A1 04-99
- Picture
- Soundtrack Ultima Ascension OW684 9264 1407537
- Spandau Ballet The Twelve Inch Mixes
- Spice Girls Spice 8421742 @ 1
-
- Stan Getz With Guest Art. 823 149-2 02#
- Laurindo Almeida
- Stephan Micus Twilight Fields 835 085-2 01
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- Sting Brand New Day 4904512 02 6
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- Sting Mercury Falling
- Sting Nothing Like The Sun 393 912-2 07%
- Sting Ten Summoner's Tales 540 075-2 01
- Sting The Soul Cages 396 405-2 01
- Sting The Very Best Of Sting 540 321_2 00 L7
- Stratovarious Visions TT 00312 MPO 11 @@@@ 1
- Supertramp Breakfast In America A&M 393 708-2
- Talk Talk (Natural
- History) The Very Best Of CDP 793976 2AR3
- Tanita Tikaram Ancient Heart 243877-2.2 RSA
- Tanita Tikaram The Sweet Keeper 9 26091-2
- Tear For Fears Tears Roll Down
- Ten Sharp Under The Waterline 17-468451-1021
- The Alan Parsons
- Project The Instrumental Works
- The Art Of Noise Below The Waste 450995911-2 WME
- The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour CDP 748062-2
-
- The Beatles Past Masters Volume CDP 790044 2 AR
- Two
- The Beatles Please Please Me CDP 746435 2AR4
-
- The Beatles Sgt.Pepper's Lonely CDP 7 46442 2
- Hearts Club
-
- The Beatles Yellow Submarine UDEN 5214812@1
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-
- The Doors The Best Of The Doors 7559-60345-2
- (CD 1)
-
- The Doors The Best Of The Doors 7559-60345-2
- (CD 2)
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- The Eagles The Very Best Of 954832375-2.2 WME
- The Frank Cunimondo
- Trio Feelin' Good MPV 100401
- The Gathering Nighttime Birds 77168-2
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- The Legendary Joao The Original Bossa
- Gilberto Nova Recording C2-93891 S2314I
- The London
- Philharmonic Vivaldi - 4 Seasons EC 1006 2898 541 01 /
- The Mamas & The Papas Monday Monday
- The Monkees Greatest Hits 260 174 A
-
- The Moody Blues This Is The Moody 820 157-2 01 +
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-
- The Moody Blues This Is The Moody 820 158-2 01 #
- Blues (Disc 2)
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- The Prodigy Experience Y4699 - 2 61365-2 03
-
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- Generation 1637-B
- The Prodigy The Fat Of The Land 3395517 NR1150-2 1247
- The Psychedelic Furs Talk Talk Talk DIDP 70008
- Thomas Dolby The Flat Earth CDP 7 460282
- TLC Fanmail 73008 26055 2
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- Tom Waits Small Change 960612-2 RSA
-
- Ton Steine Scherben Keine Macht - Fⁿr EFA 02007-26
- Niemand !
-
- Ton Steine Scherben Warum Geht Es Mir So EFA 02008
- Dreckig
-
- Tori Amos From The Choirgirl 7567830952 A
- Hotel
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- Ultravox Dancing With Tears In
- My Eyes
- Vangelis 1492
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- Vangelis Themes
- Various Artists De Pre Historie 1960 EOD BOD01 BMG 74321162162
- Various Artists De Pre Historie 1970 SONOPRESS 260 742 A
- Various Artists De Pre Historie 1980 SONOPRESS 261780 A
- Various Artists Feelings 2 D-8679/77612-0
- Various Artists Rock Ballads 4 954833711-2 WME
- Various Artists Rock Garden EMI 8315892 01
- Various Artists Rock Garden 3 EMI 8340692 02
- Various Artists Rock Super Stars 8405342 - K-8890 A
-
- Various Artists The Tarantino SONOPRESS R-7233/ MCD80325
- Connection A
- Various Artists Top Hits 90-95 (CD 1) EOD BODO1 ARC 0110154/1
- Various Artists Top Hits 90-95 (CD 2) EOD BODO1 ARC 0110154/2
- Viktor Lazlo Sweet, Soft & Lazy 521 122-2 02
- Violent Femmes Hallowed Ground 820093-2
- Westernhagen Affentheater 450997018-2.2 WME
- Whitney Houston My Love Is Your Love X-7098/7822190372
- Whitney Houston The Preachers Wife 441252
-
- Wiener Philharmoniker Dvorak / Symphonie No.
- 9
- Wim Mertens Best Of A0100231424-0101 15
- Xavier Naidoo Nicht Von Dieser Welt S1248986913-0101 104
- Yello Baby 848 791-2 01
- Yello Flag 836 426-2 03 #
-
- Yello You Gotta Say Yes To 812 166-2 03 %
- Another Exc
- ZZ Top One Foot In The Blues 936245815-2
-
-
-
-
- Sound Editor
-
-
- From version 0.8 on EAC includes a small wave editor that will have some
- neat functions that could be handy when handling extracted audio files. At
- the moment only uncompressed 16 bit 44.1 kHz stero samples files could be
- used. Following some functions are described more in detail.
-
-
- Glitch Removal
-
- From version 0.6beta on it is possible to remove glitches from extracted
- wave files. This will work only on uncompressed files.
- What are glitches? Glitches are single samples that are completly out of
- the wave stream. Best to see on these pictures, which is a really extreme
- example that probably won't occur with EAC.
- Only these glitches are removed. When hearing a wave file with glitches it
- is usually a high frequent 'tick'. Linear interpolation is used for removal
- of these glitches. Pops and other artefacts are more deep in the sample
- structure and are not removed yet, but is also planned for future releases.
- Pops occurs mainly in a lost of sync, where two parts of a wavefile are
- joined that does not fit correctly at these points of change of parts.
-
-
- Interpolation
-
- At first I want to note that this feature is not fully correctly
- implemented and would create not always clean replacements of the selected
- wav range. The selected range has to be pretty small, otherwise the menu
- entry will be disabled.
- This function will work on the frequency spectrum of the wave. The spectrum
- of the selected range will be interpolated from spectra of ranges left and
- right of the selected one. This function should be used to remove detected
- pops.
- Linear Interpolation will create a linear connection between the points of
- the wave in the selected range. This should only be used for very small
- ranges.
-
-
- Automatic Detection Of Pops
-
- This function tries to find automatically pops in the selected range. This
- is something slow, so you shouldn't select the complete file, but a smaller
- area. This algorithmus is also not very good yet, it will find some pops
- where no are and also not found all real pops... In the next version
- improvements are planned that will add user defineable parameters to nearly
- all these edit functions.
- After EAC ended the search it will display a dialog with all found
- positions. With a double click on such a position it will select the
- matching range.
-
-
- Noise Reduction
-
- To reduce noise from a wave it is necessary to have a noise profile. This
- could either be loaded from disk (or saved after created), or created from
- a selected range. This range should at least something around half a
- second. This range used for the creation of the profile should consist of
- pure noise, no other sound/music should be found in the selected range.
- After having a noise profile this could be used on any range of the wav
- (usually the complete file) to reduce the kind of in the profile analyzed
- noise.
-
-
- Spectral Display
-
- If the Spectral button is selected, it takes some seconds to calculate a
- frequency spectrum for the displayed range. This kind of display has some
- advantages. E.g. pops are easily be recognized, as example you should have
- a look at the top of the page.
- The Y axis will be used for different frequencies, at the bottom low
- frequencies are displayed and at the top high frequencies (up to 22.5 kHz).
- Further the color of a point describe the amplitude of each frequency band.
- If there are discontinuties in this view, there is sometimes something
- wrong in the wave.
-
-
- Smooth Samples
-
- This function will smooth the amplitude of a sound. This is usefull for LP
- recordings or other pops/clicks. The amplitude is smoothed, what means that
- high frequent parts are filtered out. So this function will perform a kind
- of low pass filtering, but it won't cut of frequencies about a special
- limit, but lower the volume according to its frequency.
- This function will also help on removing pops/clicks. This function could
- be called as often as needed for the same range.
-
-
-
- Documentation
-
- This is only a prerelease, so no work on the user documentation has been
- done yet. A complete user guide and documentation will be done as soon as a
- stable version has been published.
- If you encounter any further bugs, please report them by mail or e-mail.
- Also report any drives that work or don't work, to complete the list below.
- If you want to report anything, please don't forget these important
- informations
-
- * Operating system
- * Hardware configuration (CPU, memory, CD-ROM drive, etc.)
- * CD-ROM drives working / not working, drive caches audio data / don't
- caches audio data, accurate streaming / non-accurate streaming
- * Any bugs that occurred
-
- Please do not bother me with simple questions like "How could I save my
- wave file with 22.050 Hz, 8 bit, mono ?". I will try to answer all reports
- / questions but I don't know how long it will take. I am a student and I
- also have to work to earn some money, so I have not much time for these
- things, so please be patient.
-
-
-
- Registration
-
- As I mentioned before, this program is and will be Cardware. This means,
- using the program will cost you no money, but a nice picture postcard from
- your hometown or a beautiful countryside nearby (perhaps it will also be
- possible to use a nice stamp for sending the postcard). This support helps
- me developing the software to more and more functionality and safety.
- Please tell me what you like (or dislike) and please don't forget your
- e-mail address. If I ever decide that not enough users register (to my
- subjective decision), I will add nag screens which key codes will remove to
- registrated users. So if I have already your e-mail address, it will be
- much easier to send you your personal registration code. Of course, this
- will only be done if there isn't enough support. But I released until now
- also some other programs and so I am already disillusioned.
- Of course I would greatly appreciate any donations made freely by you to
- help me to improve EAC by using the donations for compiler updates etc.
-
- If you want to register in order to support me please use this address
-
- Andre Wiethoff
- Stockumer Str. 412
- 44227 Dortmund
- Germany
-
-
-
- Legal Limitations
-
- Even if you are free to copy the program for private purposes, it is not
- allowed to
-
- * Make changes to the executable and distribute it
- * Disassemble / decompile the executable
- * Spread it together with other programs on CD-ROM, web sites or any
- other media without my permission. It is allowed to put it up on free
- FTP sites or make links directly to my homepage. Of course you can
- pass a copy of it to your family and friends.
- * For commercial use, a special license is needed
-
- Read the license agreement on the installer, or when having got these
- files as archive, read the file Legal.rtf
-
-
-
- Bugs
-
- Please report if a version starts or stops working on your computer, or if
- you find any suspicious behaviour. But try everything multiple times before
- reporting and specify as exactly as possible where and how the bug
- occured.
-
-
- CDDB
-
- FreeDB (CD database) is an information database containing artist, disc
- title, track titles, and other information for digital audio compact discs.
- Over time, this archive has grown to contain a substantial collection of CD
- information and is continuing to grow at a rapid rate. This database can be
- accessed by applications via the FreeDB server hosts that have been set up
- on the Internet around the world.
-
-
- Caution ! Beta Version !
-
- This is a only a beta version from the final program that will be
- distributed later in this year, at least I hope so. This version should
- only be used by experienced users.
- I will not take responsibility for any damage to your hard- and/or software
- that is caused directly or indirectly by this program. So download this
- beta version on your own risk.
-
- Daniel Schmid created a PDF file including most informations from these
- webpages. This is still no real documentation, but is in a better printable
- form.
-
- If you encounter problems with this version you should step back to v0.85b4
-
-
-
-
- Tips & Drive Specifications
-
-
- Did you know :
-
- * In the audio editor it is possible to use the time bar and the sample
- value bar for moving the waveform by moving the mouse while having the
- left mouse button pressed on these bars.
- With the right mouse button it is possible to zoom a range on the time
- or sample value bar. A right double click will zoom out the specific
- bar.
- * Some drives make problems reading TOC informations from CDs. As
- version 0.85 beta has some more features regarding the TOC, I
- implemented two more command line options to help on problems when
- starting EAC or inserting a CD. You could use
- -nocdtext
- -nomultisession
- and it again it is possible to combine any of the command line
- options.
- * An unofficial EAC page that has plenty of tips for offset correction,
- etc. can be found under Unofficial EAC Page .
- * Some CD-ROM drives will perform better DAE when updating the firmware.
- For example the Creative DVD drives and some Teacs will perform better
- when a new firmware was flashed in.
- * The WAV comparison feature could also be used to determine a combined
- reader/writer offset for exact audio duplication. This offset will be
- different for each pair of reader/writer.
- To determine the offset, you need an already copied audio CD where the
- WAV files were extracted with 0 offset.
- Now extract the same range (somewhere in the middle of a track) with
- your prefered audio drive of the original and the copied CD.
- When extracted call compare WAV files and have a look at the number of
- the first missing/extraneous samples. This number will be the combined
- reader/writer offset. To determine wheter the number should be
- positive or negative, you have to look if the samples are missing or
- are extraneous. If the original wav file has extraneous samples at the
- beginning, the offset should be negative otherwise positive (if the
- file of the copied CD has extraneous samples the offset should
- otherwise be positive, etc.)
- To check the correct offset, you could enter the offset value in the
- options and extract again the same range from the copied CD and
- compare it again with the range of the original CD, both should then
- be the same...
- * With the WAV editor it is also possible to compare the actual file
- with another WAV file. This has the advantage that the differing
- positions could automatically be selected by double-clicking the
- position in the list box. This will make correction of badly read
- tracks very easy.
- * EAC will crash on some systems. Therefore I implemented some command
- line options that will disable some functions that could crash the
- system. You could combine any of these options, I hope that works for
- this version. I will try to remove these problems in the next
- version... The options are
- -nostopcommand
- -notestunit
- -nospeedsel
- -noreadsub
- e.g. EAC -noreadsub -notestunit
- You should have CDs already inserted in ALL your drives when starting
- EAC. On some systems it will still crash if no CD is present when EAC
- is running.
- Furthermore, you might want to disable the flag 'DMA Transfer' from
- system properties, hardware manager for each CD-ROM drive in the
- system.
- * On some systems EAC will not find a matching read mode. In that case
- select the correct read command in the drive options menu directly. If
- your drives seems to still make a bus reset (red blinking LEDs for
- some seconds) or still does not find a matching read mode, please tell
- me about it!
- * The lyrics server address changed a while ago, so I added an option to
- change the address. But I couldn't test if the new server worked
- because a few days ago it was forced to close down, at least for the
- moment.
- * If a CD has songs from various artists, you could select the option
- 'Various Artists' from the 'Edit CD Informations' menu. This will
- enable split track names. The first part of each track name is then
- the artist name and the second part is the song title. Both parts are
- separated by the character '/'. For example :
- Metallica / Nothing Else Matters
- * The caching that is supported by Windows 95/98/NT does not affect a
- cache that is included in a CD-ROM drive. Even if you reduce or
- disable this Windows cache, it does not affect grabbers that use the
- ASPI interface. So you can't make your drive non-caching, in what EAC
- understands by this, by changing that cache.
- * CDDB servers require an E-mail address in the CDDB options. If a
- server times out or does not respond, you can select another CDDB
- server from the list supplied in the list box. From time to time you
- should update the server list by pressing the button below that list
- box.
- * If your computer doesn't show any drives or shows an access violation
- after starting EAC, it is often the ASPI interface. There are many
- versions out there which will work (more or less reliably) with EAC.
- Changing the interface could help. To install a new ASPI, you should
- choose one from Adaptec. If you do not own an Adaptec SCSI adapter you
- should download the file "aspiw95.exe" (after locating it on the
- internet, e.g. with help of a search engine), or perform a search for
- "ASPIME" or "ASPI_ME" on the internet or have a look at the page of
- Official Undernet... I did not tried ASPI installation on NT yet, so I
- can't guarantee success!
- If this still does not help, you should probably look around to find a
- matching one... There should also be ASPI interfaces for NT4 out
- there.
- * You can open two instances of EAC, enabling you to read audio data
- from two different CD-ROM drives simultaneously.
- * To exactly position the sliders in selecting a range to copy, you
- could move the sliders secondswise by clicking left or right of the
- sliders (same as pressing the <page up> and <page down> keys) and
- blockwise by pressing the <cursor left> and <cursor right> keys.
- * If your drive caches audio data, you have to use the appropriate
- extraction mode, or if you still use the old secure mode, you have to
- enable the option 'disable CD-ROM drive cache'. If not, only the same
- result as 'Fast Extraction' is achieved (No error detection).
- * To detect if your drive has the accurate stream feature, you should
- set the options 'secure extraction' and 'emulate cache'. After reading
- a track (a few percent should also be enough) the status window will
- report if it has or not.
-
-
-
-
- Here is a premlimitary list of tested CD-ROM drives. There could of course
- be mistakes in this list, so please tell me of any you know of.
-
- Results of secure extraction :
-
- CD-ROM drive name offset overreads cache accur. stream
- ACER CDRW4432 +740 - no yes
- ASUS CD-S400 +1858 I no yes
- COMPAQ CR-589 +102 - yes yes
- HP 7100 +1566 - no yes
- PHILIPS CDD 3600 +1263 - yes yes
- PHILIPS 4201 +433 I no yes
- PIONEER 24x DR-A02S +1582 I/O no yes
- PLEXTOR CD-ROM PX-32TS +679 I/O no yes
- PLEXTOR CD-ROM PX-40TS +676 I/O no yes
- PLEXTOR CD-R PX-R820T +355 I/O no yes
- SAMSUNG SCR 3211 ? - no yes
- TEAC CD532E-B +684 I no yes
- TEAC CDR56S-600 +687 I yes yes
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- Overread feature "I" stands for Lead-In / "O" stands for Lead-Out
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