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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, Faster, 756792112-2
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 /
Version MRCD3239 A
Adiemus Songs Of Sanctuary
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
Art Garfunkel The Art Garfunkel Album 1004611A4
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
Bob Mintzer Urban Contours CD-467 21
Bobo In Thite Wodden
Range Cosmic Ceiling
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
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
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
Clanned 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 Doing 514 156-2 00A L7
It, So...
Cranberries No Need To Forgive 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
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
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 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
Frankie Goes To Welcome To The
Hollywood Pleasuredome 450994745-2 WME
Fugees The Score S0100184186-0101 12
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 Gloria L134 5196652 02
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
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 Edition H-5797-1/4321182752 D
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*
Hot Chocolate Platinum (The Very Best 827311 2@2
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 The Velvet Rope 84476229
Jean-Michel Jarre Oxygene 800 015-2 04 *
Jean-Michel Jarre Oxygene 7-13 S 0 100208238-0101 22
Jean-Michel Jarre The Concerts In China CD 2: 811 553-2 05 #
Jennifer Rush Credo
Jennifer Rush Movin'
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
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
Lenny Kravitz Mama Said 786209 2@1
Leonard Cohen So Long, Marianne
Level 42 A Physical Presence 825 677-2 02 #
Level 42 Love Games 821 935-2 02 #
Litfiba Mondi Sommersi EMI 8557422
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
Metallica Garage Inc. (CD 1) 5383522 01
Metallica Garage Inc. (CD 2) 5383532 02
Metallica Load 532618-202
Metallica Master Of Puppets 838 141-2 01
Metallica Metallica 510 022-2 00B L7
Metallica Reload
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
(Disc 2) A
Mike Oldfield Mike Oldfield Boxed SONOPRESS D-6487/CDBOX1-3
(Disc 3) A
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
Motley Crue Too Fast For Love 755960174-2 RSA
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
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 Wall CD 1 : 746036 2 3
CD 2 : 746037 2 4
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
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 - Future SCD 270 PHC 01 @
Shock 5
Rexanthony Techno Shock 6 - Future 1840589 PHC SCD 400
Shock 6 1609-A
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
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
Soundgarden Superunknown 540 215-2 01
Soundtrack Sesamstrasse 25 Hits Aus 25 Jahren T-9135/4321542342A
Soundtrack Armageddon
Soundtrack Evita 936246450 -2
Soundtrack Pretty Woman 793492 2 AR 4
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 Picture The Matrix 6026.2 P+O-42759-A1 04-99
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
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 Two CDP 790044 2 AR
The Beatles Please Please Me CDP 746435 2AR4
The Beatles Sgt.Pepper's Lonely CDP 7 46442 2
Hearts Club
The Corrs Unplugged 756780986-2 10/99
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 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 Blues 820 157-2 01 +
(Disc 1)
The Moody Blues This Is The Moody Blues 820 158-2 01 #
(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
Ton Steine Scherben Keine Macht - Fⁿr EFA 02007-26
Niemand !
Ton Steine Scherben Warum Geht Es Mir So EFA 02008
Dreckig
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 Super Stars 8405342 - K-8890 A
Various Artists The Tarantino SONOPRESS R-7233/
Connection MCD80325 A
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
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.
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
CDDB (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 CDDB server hosts that have been set up on
the Internet around the world.
The CDDB data format and the CDDB servers are designed to be open, and are
used by many client applications requiring CD information. CDDB has become
the de facto standard for Internet access of compact disc information.
Music CD-related data is provided through the Internet from the Escient «
CDDB(tm) Music CD Database.
Copyright ⌐ 1999 Escient INC. All rights reserved.
Escient is a registered trademark of Escient INC. CDDB(tm), the Escient
CDDB Logo, are trademarks of Escient INC.
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.
The new prebeta version is officially available just this once, 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
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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
