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This is the content of the EAC homepage at http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/ Exact Audio Copy 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 Marco Masini L'Amore Sia Con Te 991950133352 - 2641-B Marco Masini Marco Masini 991950102203 - 1420-B Marco Masini Scimmie 74321628272 Marco Masini T'Innamorerai 991950114078 - 1251-A Mariah Carey Butterfly S0148853710 Marillion Fugazi CDP 7 46027 2 Marla Glen This Is Marla Glen Matt Bianco Whose Side Are You On 240 472-2 2895 269 01# McLaughlin, Di Meola, Friday Night In San De Lucia Francisco 800 047-2 02 Meat Loaf Bat Out Of Hell II 839067 2@3 Meredith Brooks Blurring The Edges EMI UDEN 8369192 Metal Church The Dark DIDX 995 21A1 Metallica And Justice For All 2 60812-2 SRC-04 Metallica Garage Inc. (CD 1) 5383522 01 Metallica Garage Inc. (CD 2) 5383532 02 Metallica Kill 'Em All 2 60766-2 SRC-03 Metallica Load 532618-202 Metallica Master Of Puppets 838 141-2 01 Metallica Metallica 510 022-2 00B L7 Metallica Reload Metallica Ride The Lightning 318-028-003-A Metallica S & M (CD 1) 07314 546 798-2 01 Metallica S & M (CD 2) 07314 546 799-2 01 Michael Franks Objects Of Desire 256973 SRC-01 Michael Jackson Bad CDEPC-450290 123 A1 Michael Jackson Dangerous 01-465802-10 83 Michael Jackson Thriller 85930 41 Michael Jackson Thriller 35 8P-11 91A2 Mike Oldfield Crises CDV2262 100441 02 Mike Oldfield Heaven's Open Mike Oldfield Mike Oldfield Boxed SONOPRESS F-1355 / CD (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 Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells 2 4500990618-2 Mike Oldfield Voyager Miles Davis Doo-Bop 759926938-2.2 WME Miles Davis Kind Of Blue S0106493510-0101 14 Milli Vanilli Girl You Know It's W.O. 11591-4 ARCD8592 True Motley Crue Too Fast For Love 755960174-2 RSA Murray Head Watching Ourselves Go 846 405-2 00 L7 By Musik Research Cocorico 3 SCD 310 PHC 1523-A Musical Highlights From Miss Saigon Musical Highlights From The Phantom Of The Opera Musical West Side Story Nat King Cole The Unforgettable CDP 7992302 Nazareth The Best Of Nazareth LA41 157 402 Nik Kershaw The Best Of Nik Kershaw Nina Hagen Band Nina Hagen Band CDCBS-83136 11 Nirvana In Utero GED 24536 Nirvana Nevermind DGCD24425 06 Orchestre de Paris Ravel - Bolero 400 061-2 03 # Ozzy Osbourne No More Tears 01-467859-10 11 Ozzy Osbourne Ozzmosis S0148102210-0101 31 Paolo Conte Collezione 258 902 A Paul McCartney Off The Ground 780362 2 Peggy Lee All-Time Greatest Hits 77379-2 MO L3106K Volume 1 Pet Shop Boys DISCO2 Peter Gabriel Passion DIDX-005048 10 Peter Gabriel So PGCD-5 11 Phil Collins Face Value 2 99143 SRC 01 Pink Floyd Dark Side Of The Moon UDCD 517 5C (ORIG. MASTER REC.) Pink Floyd The Division Bell 7243 8 28984 2 9 Pink Floyd The Wall CD 1 : 746036 2 3 CD 2 : 746037 2 4 Portishead Portishead 539189-2 03 Queen A Kind Of Magic CDP 746267 2 AR Queen A Night At The Opera 789492 2 @ 2 Queen Greatest Hits 746033 2 AR 3 Queen Greatest Hits II 797971 2 AR @1 Queen Innuendo 795887 2 00 @3 Queen Jazz 789495 2 @ 4 Queen Made In Heaven M-4684/4835542A Queen News Of The World 789494 2 @ 1 Queen Queen I 746204 2 AR 10 Queen The Miracle C-7698/CDP7923572 A Queen The Works CDP 746016 2 AR.4 R.E.M. Automatic For The 936245055-2.2 WME People R.E.M. UP 9362-47112-2 Radiohead OK Computer 8552292 2 Rancid ...And Out Come The A0100183294-0101 21 Wolves Ray Brown & Laurindo Almeida Moonlight Serenade 123/1CD 504071 Rexanthony Audax 1840969 REX004-CD 5507 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 Rexanthony Fine Pleasure 1840823 REX003CD 5516 Rexanthony Polaris Dream SOCD 244 PHC 1547-A 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 Rolling Stones Voodoo Lounge 839782 2 @ 3 Roxette Joyride 796048 2 A0 2 Roxette Look Sharp! 791098 2 00 @ 1 Roxette Tourism 7999292 13 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 Sisters Of Mercy Vision Thing 9031-72663-2 Skeptiker Harte Zeiten 084-80262 Slayer Reign In Blood DIDX-2036 Slayer Show No Mercy 71034-2 (V) Slayer South Of Heaven DIDX-003551 Sonic Youth Goo 0064536000000 01 Soundgarden Superunknown 540 215-2 01 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 Steve Miller Band Italian X-Rays 822 823-2 01 # Sting Brand New Day 4904512 02 6 Sting Fields Of Gold 540 321-2 0 1 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 Songtrack The Corrs Unplugged 756780986-2 10/99 The Cure Pornography 827 688-2 01 * The Doors The Best Of The Doors 7559-60345-2 (CD 1) The Doors The Best Of The Doors 7559-60345-2 (CD 2) The Drifters Special Editions 812271230-2 WMME The Eagles The Very Best Of 954832375-2.2 WME The Frank Cunimondo Trio Feelin' Good MPV 100401 The Gathering Nighttime Birds 77168-2 The Jacksons Live DIDP-10817 11 The Jam Wasteland PWKS4129P 10203241 02 % 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 + Blues (Disc 1) The Moody Blues This Is The Moody 820 158-2 01 # Blues (Disc 2) The Police Greatest Hits 540 030-2 00 L7 The Prodigy Experience Y4699 - 2 61365-2 03 The Prodigy Music For The Jilted 1735004 PHC UDP-CD1021 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 Tom Waits Rain Dogs SONOPRESS/610486 SA7118 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 Toure Kunda Live CELCD 6106 (V) U96 Das Boot 513 185-2 01 / Ultravox Dancing With Tears In My Eyes Vangelis 1492 Vangelis Oceanic 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 Overread feature "I" stands for Lead-In / "O" stands for Lead-Out Contact If you need help or want to be notified of any news regarding EAC, please subscribe to one or both of the mailing lists below. This mailing list is for users This mailing list will notify you helping users. If you are willing to of any news regarding EAC help or if you have questions, subscribe this list and ask your questions. If you encountered severe bugs, please check it twice and read the documentation (the homepages), perhaps this problem is already in work or even already removed. Otherwise you may contact me on my private e-mail address Do not use this email address for questions of usage ! If you want to registrate in order to support me or just want to send me snail mail please use this address Andre Wiethoff Stockumer Str. 412 44227 Dortmund Germany