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Planned For The Next Release
* Bug fixes again...
* Improvement of the audio editor
* Big surprise :) (I know already what it is ;)
* More features to come
Whats New
So, here comes EAC 0.85 beta 4. I added the beta version
number in order to prevent disinformations in the mailing
list, to identify the version correctly. All main
remaining bugs from beta 3 should be removed now and I
will start work on version 0.9 beta.
Mainly the bugs with NT are removed now, further the wrong
ending times of some CDs on some drives should now be
corrected, although it is still possible that very few CDs
will still not work (mainly CDs with only few tracks). If
you have such a CD you should start EAC (for that CD) with
2-September-99 the command line option -nomultisession then. Also it is
now possible to create CUE sheets with CD-Text additions
(but I heard, that sometimes CDRWin does not create
CD-Text CDs on such CUE sheets even if it does accept the
CUE sheet).
I have now two domains that will be ready somewhen next
week, so I will move... The new address for EAC will be
http://www.ExactAudioCopy.de and my private homepage will
be at http://www.Andre-Wiethoff.de. I will keep up this
site a month or so and then all users will be redirected
to the new pages automatically...
Again sorry, I just found another possible bug, that I
just removed. It has to again with some WAV files in the
wave editor making EAC stop. It only happened when having
selected "No use of null samples for CRC calculations".
2-August-99 Further I corrected the bug with the CDDB batch function.
It should now work also. So please download again that
version... Sorry!
I think this is still not the "final" 0.85 beta version,
as I want to fix the Toshiba/etc "Can't find matching read
mode" bug first... So keep updated ;)
I am terribly sorry, but I could test as much as I want,
it would never be enough ;)
I just returned from my weekend, so I hadn't the
possibility to do anything on it until now...
So users already reported my three severe bugs. I just
removed these bugs and already put up an updated version
(same version number though)
* If no WM Audio Codec was installed, EAC would produce
WMA files instead of WAV files when using Internal
WAV Routines
* Some WAVs loading in the audio editor make EAC stop
at FFTWnd.2338
* If no system TEMP directory was specified EAC started
1-August-99 up with an error message at WndProcs.1093
Thanks for all reports on these bugs, but I will not
answer the mails that only reporting one of these bugs,
there were much too many of them ;)
It is possible that some drives will now make problems
with 0.85beta when inserting a CD. If so, try the
commandline options -nomultisession and -nocdtext when
starting EAC (as explained on my Tips & Specs page)!
Further, several persons asked me not to use such a
mailing list. They thought that Onelist.com will spread
their email addresses and that they will be mail bombed
with SPAM. On the homepage of Onelist.com is declared that
they will not distribute any email address and that they
will not send any unsolicited email. The only bad thing is
that a small advertisment is added below each mail.
Finally, EAC 0.85 beta is out! I hope you like it, there
were really many changes to 0.81 beta, but I think you
will see for yourself.
New features that in 0.85 beta adding to the features
listed in the previous news
* Certified Escient « CDDB(TM) Compatible
* Absolute sample offset detection
* Overreading capability for extracting correctly with
non-zero offsets
* Preliminary WMA (MS Audio) support
* Sorry to say that interpolation in the audio editor
is still not really improved, I will do it for the
next version...
There are still some more informations...
I started a new CD-ROM drive database, please help me to
fill it out as good as possible. Have a look at the table
and send me the information for your drives. Please make
30-July-99 sure for the sample offset to test it with at least two
different CDs and to use at least 0.85 beta!
I don't have the time anymore to give email support for
EAC or similar problems. From now I started two mailing
lists at www.onelist.com. The first list is for users
asking other users for help. I hope that many experienced
users will help the other... The second mailing list is,
like the mailing list I maintained so far, only a
announcement mailing list. If you are not interested in
tips and help from other users you probably want only
subscribe to eac-announce. In the announcement list all
news about EAC are spread.
For all persons already in my mailing list : The current
database will be lost, so please subscribe again at
eac-announce. I try to answer to problems in the mailing
list, if no one else find a solution to a problem, but do
not mail me to my email address for help. I will not
answer on such mails. The only exception would be if you
encountered an unknown bug and I want you to help me
debugging the problem.
Thanks for your understanding!
As I still have no confirmation of CDDB that EAC complies
to the license agreement, I have to move the release date
by a week. On the other hand I have some more time to do
some additional features for the audio editor ;) It took
some time, because there were always some terms of license
not correctly implemented. The last thing I had to change
was the proxy and the proxy authentification... Sorry, but
complying to the license agreement I had to remove them
for 0.85 beta! If there are any complaints, please mail to
them directly... So, new release date will be 30.7.99..
Hope you are not disappointed too much ;)
Other new features that will be in 0.85 beta
21-July-99
* Nearly complete change of the audio editor, now it
becomes usable ;)
* Loop record mode for always having an amount of time
in memory buffers, making it possible to start
recording that amount later (for records from radio,
etc. )
* Automatic rename of MP3 files according to their ID3
Tag
* Catalog of audio CDs, allowing to extract a specified
time from the start of each track with optional fade
out
* Copy with gap prepend at the beginning of the correct
track (with matching CUE sheet generation)
* Some more bugfixing and some more new features...
Sorry to say that version 0.85beta is still not completed,
but following a list of new features already implemented.
A prebeta version is tested at the moment, meanwhile I
will work on improvements of the audio editor. I expect
that the official 0.85beta will be released somewhen
around 23. July 99...
Already implemented
* Secure mode for accurate stream drives that caches
* Proxy authentification for CDDB and lyrics accesses
* Multisession CD support
* CD playing digitally possible (without cable)
* Position slider for CD playing
* Automatic creation of directories by filename
specification
* Power down computer after extraction
* Priority selection for extraction and compression
* More drive options (e.g. swap channels, spin up,
etc.)
* 3 different gap detection methods, so at least one
should work with each drive
* Better support for external compressors
* Support for 10 types of external compressors (MP3,
VBR, AAC, VQF, RA)
* Batch compression feature with selected compression
scheme
3-June-99 * Batch decompression feature with automatically
choosen decompressor (only .WAVs and .MP3s)
* Compression and decompression could make an offset
correction, as some compression schemes do not
compress correctly. Also including autodetection for
offset value
* Local CDDB support
* Saving options to registry
* Creating and loading user profiles
* Automatic changes to track names (e.g. upper all
first characters)
* CD-Text support
* Submission of CD data to the official CDDB database
* Export of CD data to text files, etc.
* WAV recorder with dB level meter and peak level
search (in dB) for checking on overamplified
recordings
* ID3 Tag editor with drag and drop from track list or
CD database browser
* Some more smaller features...
* Really many bugfixes, e.g. IDE Yamaha crash on
startup, Sync Error at the end of the last track,
etc.
Moreover, I am sorry to say that version 0.81beta will pop
up a dialog telling the version is rather old, without
having a new public version out. I will try to patch that
version and put a "new" 0.81beta version again on my
page...
Work for 0.85 beta is in still progress and will most
probably take two more month... I nearly finished CDDB
submission and also implemented some other features like
three different methods for gap detection to support now
nearly any drive out. Therefore I already removed a bug
that caused EAC to hang in index retrieval (not gap
detection). It could happen that EAC will not leaving a
loop :( But it is fixed already. A faster gap/index
11-March-99 detection mode will work for Plextor/Yamaha/etc.
Further there is a bug that occurs sometimes when a track
has been extracted, causing EAC to stop around Utils.5707.
Hope that it will be fixed soon...
Because I will buy a new computer tomorrow, I won't be
able to read or answer mails until my system is build up
and installed all software again. I think it will be
completed something around sunday or monday. So please be
patient...
I am sorry that it took that long to finish the bug fix,
but on the one hand I wanted to remove all that really
bigger bugs and on the other hand I got the flu and
couldn't concentrate on anything week before last week...
Now I am almost ok again ;)
So here is the (new) version that should fix most of the
bugs of 0.8beta. 0.8 beta will be removed completly from
the server, as the new one has nearly the same features...
The new version includes
* Fix of error detection and correction that does not
worked correctly in 0.8beta! Further I replaced the
guessing routines with the ones from 0.7beta, as many
mailed me that the newer ones worked not as good as
them. When I find out how to improve them, they will
be back again, but for now the older guessing
routines should work ok for most users.
* Fix of not finding matching read modes for some
Philips and Toshiba drives. On these drives it is
also necessary to select the option 'Check for
density parameters'. Further, some drives need to
19-February-99 change wordnibbles to get correct results (otherwise
only noise is extracted). For that a new option is
included.
* The obsolete part that slowed down burst copy is now
removed. Now it will copy on my Plex 14/32 with max
16.5X (accesses to harddisk too slow, because I only
use a cheap Fast-SCSI card) and test tracks with
something around 23.0X.
* Added 'intelligent' WAV file comparison. It will
detect missing and extraneous bytes everywhere in the
files and also gather other differences of both
files. This feature could also be used in the WAV
editor to easily select ranges of differences.
Furthermore it could be used to determine the
combined reader/writer offset.
* The WAV editor now has another filter, smoothing.
This is helpful for many kinds of defects beside
clicks and pops.
It seems that the IDE versions of the Yamaha CD-R(W)
drives will cause many problems, mainly crashing EAC on
startup. Therefore I added command line options for these
drives for the moment. I will soon debug this on such a
drive. No other drives seem to cause such problems...
Now here it is, the new official 0.8beta. ;)
It was really a long time without any updates, but I think
it was worth the time. Even if it has no really big new
features, but many improvements and bugfixes on nearly all
functions.
The new version includes
* New fast secure read modes for accurate readers and
also for drives that caches
* Complete improvement of read modes and Test read
function, allowing to calculate CRC checksums without
using disk space
* BladeEnc DLL support
* Remove leading and trailing silence
* Fill missing offset samples with silence
* Automatic detection of drive features
22-January-99 * Selection of extensions for headerless WAV files
* Test detected gaps on silence
* Save extraction log
* Selection of error recovery quality for faster
extraction on bad CDs
* WAV editor with already some functions for editing,
more to come...
* Many bugfixes, too many to mention
There are still many bugs, but I hope to remove them
sooner or later. If EAC makes problems on your computer,
please read the What's New page.
I will do nothing on EAC the next week, but then work for
0.9beta will begin. Many people told me a lot of ideas of
improvement. Because there were too much mail the last
month, I would ask to tell me the not yet implemented
ideas again, if not stated in the 'Planned for next
release'. But also experiences are appreciated!
I am sorry to say that the release date will be some days
later. New expected release date will be the 22.1.98. The
last weeks I had lot of work at the university and EAC
also took much work to finish all features I planned for
14-January-99 0.8 beta. You will surely be surprised which features are
now really in it... :)
I have to say the 0.8 beta will not have these announced
features: Submission of CDDB entries, Support of other
local CDDB databases and Proxy authentification. But I
will try to include it in version 0.9 beta then.
I did not had as much time as I wanted the last two weeks.
So I didn't work on EAC very much. But now, I have
christmas holidays and work will go on a little bit faster
again.
From now on, I will not only send notifications on new
versions to the people in my mailing list, but also
everytime a news entry is added to the What's New page.
The mail will contain the newsentry... If you don't want
to be in the mailing list anymore, just send me a mail.
22-December-98 Thanks.
Expected release date of EAC 0.8 beta will be 18.1.99, but
I have to wait if there are still bigger problems with it,
this release date could change.
By the way, today I visited the 'Star Trek World Tour',
but was not as big as I thought... The ratio of fun/money
could be much better, but Star Trek fans will nevertheless
have a look at it ;)
So, I wish everybody merry christmas and a happy new year!
Work is going on pretty well, but I have to say that it is
most probably, that CDDB submission will not be in
0.8beta.
I am sorry for that, but if I would implement it right
now, the release date will move at least a month... So I
decided to put it back until 0.9beta.
All other features are implemented in time, at least I
hope so. There will be plenty of new features in version
0.8beta, also some that are not named in the list above :)
But furthermore there will be some annoying bugs removed,
at first the bug, that the last sector of a CD is not read
in any case. So the last track will be one sector too
short always. This was a really silly bug and I am sorry
for that. Moreover there are error poping up like Assign
Range at Utils.2593 and that the system slows down totally
29-November-98 when starting EAC. So please do not mail me if you
encounter any of these bugs, I know them already and I
work on their removal. I don't know if I am able to remove
them all completly, but I will try so.
I have to say, that NOBODY mailed me regarding my last
news entry (a few lines down) from the 5-November. :( If
you are not getting pops, you probably made a CDDB
database by yourself...
There is one more favour, I would like to ask. If you
encounter any new link of a really big shareware site to
my page, please tell me. And moreover if you find any
review of EAC (or something similar) in a computer
magazin, I really would like to have a copy of it (or at
least the according pages, or if postage is too expansive,
also a scan of that page would be sufficient)... Thanks in
forward!
I am already working on the next version, and for that I
want to ask everybody who often got pops on extraction to
send these to me to test my routines... I am in need of
some real pops! ;)
Furthermore I will start a EAC database project now. If
you have build up your own database (perhaps also some
with lyrics), please send it to me. I will build one huge
5-November-98 database of all your CDs and put it somewhere in the web.
This will help those, who don't have internet access (or
not always).
Please send me a short mail if you want to send me WAV
files or databases that are over 10 kb in size... Thanks
in forward!
Don't expect any program updates until christmas, only if
big bugs have to be removed :)
Release Date of version 0.7beta
This version mainly bugfixes many small and some bigger
problems, also the hanging on some systems and some CDDB
problems...
The new version includes
* CRC checksum calculation for tracks
* Test read function, allowing to calculate CRC
checksums without using disk space
* Disabling CD Autostart feature for runtime of EAC
* Lyrics support (first try ;)
* External MP3 compression support (including long
filenames and ID3 tagging)
* Automatic CUE Sheet creation of CD's (including all
track indices!)
* Time format could be changed from hundredth seconds
2-November-98 to frames
* Leaving out WAV header (optional) for true MP3 files
or raw audio data
* Batch CDDB queries
* Lots of bug fixes, and as always some new bugs
(drive reset, speed selection and CDDB bugs should be
fixed now)
One of the main bugs still in EAC reported by my beta
testers is that after extraction the system is not really
stable anymore at least on some systems. I don't know why
yet, because on my system everything seems to be ok. But
to be on the safe side you should reboot if you need a
real stable system. Sorry!
By the way, my Plextor came back like new after a week of
repair... But I decided to sell that one and bought a new
Plextor 32TSI already. Furthermore today I bought a
Soundblaster Live! :)
I already removed many bugs of version 0.6beta, but there
is still the main bug in it... On some systems (until now
only SCSI systems are affected) the system hangs after
starting extraction. The drive LEDs are flashing like the
drives doing a reset. The flashing LEDs bug is already
removed, but on these systems there is another bug on it
(perhaps very similar to that other bug), that will read
now the first part of the track only zero samples and the
21-October-98 rest correctly. I will go debugging it on a friends
computer next week.
Because of that many bugs, I decided to bring out a new
version earlier than planned. If everything works fine and
I will find that bug, version 0.7beta is planned to come
out end of next week. It will not have all features
described above, to be honest the main features
(Submission, Pop Removal and Secure Mode for Caching
Drives) will miss. But I think bug fixing should be done
first.
There seems some problems with EAC v0.6beta on some
systems. There was one report of extracting too slow
(possibly only Plextor 32TSI) and one report of not
ripping of second or third drives. Only the first drive
was used for extraction even if another one was
5-October-98 selected...
If you also think you have found a bug, please test it
also with older versions (like 0.5beta and 0.4beta). If
both are not working, it is an old bug not found yet,
otherwise it is one that is new in 0.6beta (What is
interesting for me to know...)
Release Date of version 0.6beta
I hope this is a pretty stable version and that the main
feature, the CDDB support will work properly.
The new version includes
* Remote CDDB database support
* Listen to suspicious positions
* Glitch removal
* Fix of speed detection and selection
* Browse and edit of the local database
* Spindown on errors and fallback afterwards
* Some bug fixes, some new bugs
* Update of almost all my webpages, but still no real
private homepage... It will be done as soon I find
1-October-98 time next week... ;)
* Moved old versions to a subdirectory, because some
web pages still points to these old versions like
0.1beta or 0.2beta...
Development will slow down a little bit, because at the
moment there is lot of other work to do at the university
(that start again next week), preperations for
examinations and seminars, furthermore I still have to
work besides to earn some money.
But really bad is that yesterday my nice Plextor TSI 12/20
cdrom drive killed itself somehow. The drive will not
accept any CDs anymore and sometimes the red LED flashes
five times, over and over again. This will delay
development at least some weeks, I hope I find my
guarantee billet, I don't want to buy a new drive... :(
I am back from holidays... The holidays at home were nice
(of course not as nice as REAL holidays...), I did a lot
of cycling and relaxing.
I just got informed that there is a bug when using the
27-September-98Fraunhofer Codec and selecting 48 kHz samplerate... You
shouldn't use it until 48 kHz mode is fixed (or
removed)...
The expected release date is still 1.10.98... Only smaller
things to do and some bugs to fix.
Now I have completed nearly all new features, only some
more fixes to 'Listen to possible Errors'. There is still
some work to do, e.g. in this 'Listen' dialog it will be
possible to remove glitches from the wave (only if
uncompressed). Of course this will remove only glitches,
that means if only one sample is out of the stream and
create by this a pop, it will be removed by the routine. I
plan to also add a routine to remove pops that are bigger
17-September-98and burried in the sound... But not in this version.
Expected release date for version 0.6beta is 1.10.98,
because I want wait for the people at CDDB to check the
CDDB support to be bug-free...
Important:
I will go on holidays tomorrow (only some holidays at home
(where I come from, not here at the university) :(, that
means I am not able to respond to mail until 27.9.98...
Please be patient.
I am still working on CDDB routines, but I already
finished CDDBP support (hopefully), still lacking HTTP
support. I hope to finish the rest of it in a week, so I
could send the admins of CDDB a pre-beta version to get an
ok for public release. Meanwhile I will work on the rest
of the new features, that also should be finished until
end of september, that will be a release date of the next
version. Of course it could be a week more or less... If I
10-September-98know an exact date, I will publish it here.
I need more informations on Offset Sample feature, so
please help me to improve it. If you own a Plextor drive
(12x or more) then test all CDs you own in the list on the
Technology page. Get the sample offset of each CD
(should(!) be 0 on all Plextors) and send it to me
together with the code written on the inner ring on the
back of the CD (e.g. 532 618-2 02) and the title of the
CD. Thanks...
Release Date of version 0.5beta
A few days ago I saw that the program crashes on some
systems, even the version 0.4beta. Damn. Why didn't anyone
told me that this happened? Now it is too late for this
version to fix it. I will have some tests if I can get
hold of such a computer. I have to install my complete
programming environment and then debug the whole thing...
It still seems to be a problem with the ASPI interface.
The new version includes
* Local CDDB database
* Import/Export of cdplayer.ini entries
* Filename construction and ID3 Tags
* Sample Offset detection and correction
26-August-98 * Speed detection and selection. This feature was made
in a hurry and will work or not. It should show up
the possible speeds in the selection box. If you
think, that the values are not correct or the speed
actually read is faster than the selected, please
tell me!
* Beep or eject CD after task finished
* Some more safety checks and other stuff
* Two more extraction methods
* Still old bugs
* Update of almost all my webpages
* Making all old versions available for download
I am not able to read or answer mails until next monday,
so please be patient...
I have nearly finished the local CDDB and Cdplayer.ini
support. I will try to finish both speed selection and
18-August-98 sample offsets until expected release date 26.8.98, but I
can't promise. It's a problem to me, testing my speed
selection routines with my drives and my ASPI interface...
I am terribly sorry, by accident I changed the link to EAC
v0.4beta back to v0.3beta...
11-August-98 It is now fixed again... Sorry...
The student server will go down next weekend. It should be
up again on monday morning.
Release Date of version 0.4beta
At first I have to excuse me about a speed calculation
bug. The calculation uses a wrong constant and the result
was slightly higher (to be precise, 1.176 times higher).
So this is now fixed and the cd-rom drive table is
updated. I just wanted to tell, because otherwise some
will think the program is getting slower.
I hope to have found the solution of the ASPI bug, not
showing up any drives, but I will wait if this is correct.
ASPI Error EBh still comes up in some versions of ASPI,
sorry.
The new version includes
7-August-98
* CD player functions and prelistening to ranges
* Detection of pre-track gaps
* Burst extraction method
* Some new bugs
New known bugs are
* The detection of pre-track gaps will take far too
long on some computers (usually it should take a
second per track). I will need some more tests on
these computers. The detected values are not 100%
correct in these cases.
* Find out yourself...
Our student server was down yesterday. If somebody send me
5-August-98 an e-mail that I haven't answered yet, please re-sent the
e-mail.
I have nearly finished two new features of EAC: CD player
functions and gap length determination.
All CD rippers, I know of, will append the gap between two
audio tracks to the previous track. My program will now
analyze the CD and determine the length of each gap. It
31-July-98 will be possible to append the gap or to left it out.
These two features are surely in 0.4beta (it will take a
week more until next update), but I will try also to
implement block offsets for non-accurate stream drives. I
don't know if I could do the spindown already in this
version...
Release Date of version 0.3beta
This new beta is forced to come out, because version
0.2beta made problems on a huge number of computers.
Main problems was "Access Violation" and "ASPI interface
could not be initialized". These errors are still in EAC,
but it should run on more computers again. I still don't
know why the ASPI Interface often could not be initialized
(This is not only a bug in my program - try starting
22-July-98 ASPICHK from Adaptec. On my computer it always shows the
same intialization failure). Have a try with different
ASPI versions to install.
The new version includes
* Normalization of extracted audio
* Safety check for available harddisk space
* Compile-time dynamic linking of the ASPI interface
* more or less bugs ;)
I recognized that EAC won't work on many computer having
either an "Access Violation" or an error message "ASPI
interface could not be initialized". I'm already working
on this problem and I hope to bring out a new bug-fixed
version on 22-July.
20-July-98 Interfacing the ASPI dll caused these problems, because my
compiler has not a C compatible parameter passing. So I
will use compile-time dynamic linking in that version. I
hope it will work.
Normalization is nearly done and probably also in the new
version.
Release Date of version 0.2beta
including
* Copy of ranges of audio cds
15-July-98 * Fast reading mode
* Still some bugs
* New homepage
This "Whats New" page will updated more often than
the downloads
5-July-98 Back from my one week england holiday ;)
Release Date of version 0.1beta
including
* Secure reading mode
25-June-98 * Emulate deactivate cache
* ACM CODEC support
* Hidden sector synchronization
* Usage of the Win 95/NT ASPI Interface
* A lot of bugs
