WinDAC32 Version 1.0
Christoph Schmelnik's
Digital Audio Copy
for Win32

Sorry about my terrible English. If my teachers could read this, they would
get Nightmares.

This Program is SHAREWARE.
You can test it for a period of 30 days, after that you must register it.

You are allowed to copy the Shareware Version of this program and distribute
it on all medias, but registered Users are not allowed to copy their
Version except to make a personal Backup.

THE AUTHOR (Christoph Schmelnik) DOES NOT UNDERTAKE ANY LIABILITY FOR ANY DAMAGE CAUSED BY THIS PROGRAM. THERE IS ALSO NO GUARANTEE OF AN ERROR FREE PROGRAM EXECUTION.

This is new !!!!!!!!!
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If someone has proteced the name 'Digital Audio Copy' or have used it before me (but I did not find something like this during my searches) he should write me before he runs to his lawyer. I'am sure that we could solve those problems without aplying for injunction or claiming damages.

OVERVIEW
1. Functions
2. System requirements
3. Installation
4. Using WinDAC
5. Where can you download the latest versions?
6. Problems
7. List of tested drives
8. Registering
9. Notes

1. Functions
•	Copy Audio Tracks from CD
•	Save Data in Wave files
•	Convert Audio Data from 44kHz 16 Bit Stereo to
	- 11 or 22 kHz Samplefrequency
	- 8 or 16 Bit per Sample
	- Mono (even the separatet Channels)
•	Kill Zero-Samples at the beginning and end
•	Copy selected tracks in different Wave files
•	Use all recognized CDROM drives simuleously
•	Show information to all tracks
•	Full drive control (eject, play ...)
•	Show main drive states
•	Copy selected sectors of the CD(*)

(*) only available for registered users

2. System requirements
•	Installed Windows 95 or Windows NT (Version 4.0 an above)
•	Installed 32 Bit ASPI Manager (included in Windows 95)
•	SCSI CDROM drive, which is able to read digital audio data and is supported by DAC. Currently drives from the following vendors are supported: Toshiba,NEC,Hitachi,Sony,Pioneer,Plextor,Yamaha,IBM,Philips,Grundig,HP,Mitsumi (die letzten 4 sind CD-Brenner)
•	Hard disc with much of free space

3. Installation
You can start the program without installing (even from write protected drives like CD's), because all needed information is dectected during the first start and is stored in the windows registry. So you'll need to clean up the registry if you decide to use this program no more. To make this more easy i included two installation scripts for Winows 95 and NT 4.0. To install DAC click with the right mouse button on INST95.INF for Win95 and on INSTNT.INF for Windows NT and choose install in the pop-up menu. This will cause that in the Program directory a new directory named DAC32 is created and all needed files are copied to it. The program is also added to the start menu. The deinstallation is Windows like.

4. Using WinDAC32
This is a Windows program and therefore use it like a Windows program.
This means:
•	This program uses a MDI (Multiple Document Interface) userinterface. All recognized drives are displayed in its own window. In the drive windows a list of all tracks on the CD is displayed. Music and data tracks have different icons. All menu and toolbar commands works in the context of the active window.
•	In the drive windows it is possible to select windows like one or more tracks. For the CD-player functions only the focused track is used, but for the copy function for all selected tracks - all selected tracks are used. The richt mouse button will display a context menu which allows you to play or copy a track.
•	In the DAC menu it is possible to configure the CDROM drives and the general copy parameters. The copy method is configurable for all drives separated, so one drive could copy in Burst-mode and one with Sectorsynchonisation. The settings for the Wave file is global for all drives. You can also manually add or remove drives.
•	The Actions menu contains all functions for direct CD access. This are CD-Player and the copy commands. The eject and reload command works only with drives with a tray. Caddy drives can only eject CD's. There are also some tray drives available which are not able to reload the CD by Software command.
•	In the View menu you'll find the well known functions from windows to arrange the windows. The special funktion here is that you can select here the drives which are displayed in DAC. This is very useful for CD-Changers, because the checking of those drives will cost a lot of time. With the Refresh command DAC rereads the TOC of the actual drive.
•	The Help menu is not worth of decribing. There is no online help.
•	The Toolbar contains all functions for CD-control. The forward and reverse command results in a changes start position by 2 seconds.
•	The Statusbar shows only two things: is a CD inserted or not and the current play position. Please notive that even the first track doesn't start at second 0 but normally at second 2.
•	The Copy dialogs are extended System dialogs which allow to select a filename and some other different settings. If you copy selected tracks the filename is only the base name and is extended by the current track number as shown in the dialog. In the dialog for copying selected sectors you can choose the range by time index or by sector number. You are also able to play the selected range.
•	In the window displayed during the copy progress there is a detailed progress report. The animated icons indicates the current action (reading from CD, writening to disc and synchronize sectors). The status filed displays error messages and which track is currently copied. The button aborts the copy prohress or if it already done it closes the window.

5. Where can you download the latest versions?
The latest versions of DAC are allways available at the following sites:
•	In the Fidonet you can request the DOS-Version with the Magic DAC and the Windows Versioon with the Magic WINDAC at the following Addresses:
		2:2448/2009 +49 201 8535023  ISDN X75
		2:2448/2010 +49 201 8535023  19.200 Zyx
		2:2448/2011 +49 201 8535024  ISDN X75
		2:2448/2012 +49 201 8535024  33.600 V.34+
	You could also download the latest version as a Online-User.
•	In the Internet from my homepage:
		http://members.aol.com/schmelnik/dac.html

6. Problems
It is possible that DAC refuses copying a Track (specially the first on a disc). Here you have to increase the start sector until DAC starts (only available for registered users). Similar problems are possible at the last Track. My Toshiba refuses to read
the last sector on a disc, but it is definitely present.
If you want to try a new and unknown drive and the the copy progress doesn't work, try to change the drive type in the settings. Unknown drives are mapped as SONY by default. You can also try one of the other default types: TOSHIBA, NEC, PHILIPS.
New drives are only detected if you have installed an additional SCSI controller, so you have to rescan the SCSI Bus with the Command Reset in the DAC menu.
You can't use this program with NT 3.51, because the copy dialogs are extended System dialogs and have the explorer style which is not available under normal NT 3.51 installations. But if there are many who want to use DAC with this old version of NT and don't want to upgrade to 4.0, i will fix this problem in a later version.
BTW: I couldn't test the Philips CD-Writer family, so be careful.
If you encounter other problems, E-Mail me.

7. List of tested drives
I will no longer keep here this list because i don't release so much updates to keep the list always actual. Generally I recommend the drives from Toshiba, which can read Audio with single speed, the drives from Pioneer, which read with drives maximum speed and the drives from Plextor currently reading at the maximum speed of 8x (even with the 12x drives).
For those who want see the experience of others i suggest to have a look at
Stewart Addisons CDDA Page (http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~psyche/pc/cdrom/CDDA.html).

8. Registering
For registeration please fill out the form in the File REGISTER.TXT and send it along with the registration fee to me.
Bank transfers from outside germany cost a lot of fees, please note this when you register.

And remember that any donations are welcome.

Adress:
Christoph Schmelnik
Stolzingweg 29
D-45307 Essen
Germany

Email:
Fido: 2:2448/2010.4
Internet: christoph@kali.rhein-ruhr.de
Compuserve: INTERNET:christoph@kali.rhein-ruhr.de

9. Notes
Some of the terms i used here are registered trademarks like Windows 95, Windows NT, Win32, Toshiba, Plextor, Pioneer, ...

So that's all, Enough is enough