Exact Audio Copy is a so called audio grabber for audio CDs using standard CD and DVD-ROM drives. The main differences between EAC and most other audio grabbers are :
With other audio grabbers you usually need to listen to every grabbed wave because they only do jitter correction. Scratched CDs read on CD-ROM drives often produce distortions. But listening to every extracted audio track is a waste of time. Exact Audio Copy conquer these problems by making use of several technologies like multi-reading with verify and AccurateRip.
Download Lame's windows binaries at http://www.rarewares.org/mp3-lame-bundle.php or directly lame3.98.2.zip
To install Lame, unzip inside “c:\program files” or “c:\program files (x86)” for Windows 64bits.
Download the latest version of EAC : http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/en/index.php/resources/download/.
Installation is quite simple, click “next” :
Click “next” :
EAC will then search for Lame binaries on the hard disk. It's possible to let it search or select the position manually.
To submit freedb info, an valid email need to be selected :
Define here the filename format :
Additionnal config :
These reports indicates how the rip was done (options, reading errors…).
Activate the reports :
Filename format :
The following screenshots show how to configure a 192kbits/s framerate and tag personnalisation :
The commandline options ”-h -m s -b 192 %s %d” indicates :
Note : disable Wav deteltion to reuse them.
To save the CRC inside tags :
To get the same filename in MP3 :
AccurateRip allow people to compare the result of the rips through an Internet database.
The screen appear when the first Audio CD is inserted :
This is a CD rip example.
After the CD is inserted, tracks are displayed :
Use Freedb to get track names :
Ready to go, click the MP3 button :
Select the destination :
Ripping :
End of ripping :
Sample status report :
Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 5 from 4. May 2009 EAC extraction logfile from 20. December 2009, 11:42 U2 / War Used drive : TSSTcorpCD/DVDW SH-S183A Adapter: 0 ID: 1 Read mode : Secure Utilize accurate stream : Yes Defeat audio cache : Yes Make use of C2 pointers : Yes Read offset correction : 6 Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No Null samples used in CRC calculations : No Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000 Gap handling : Not detected, thus appended to previous track Used output format : User Defined Encoder Selected bitrate : 192 kBit/s Quality : High Add ID3 tag : Yes Command line compressor : C:\Program Files (x86)\lame3.98.2\lame.exe Additional command line options : -h -m s -b 192 %s %d TOC of the extracted CD Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector --------------------------------------------------------- 1 | 0:00.03 | 4:39.32 | 3 | 20959 2 | 4:39.35 | 3:11.25 | 20960 | 35309 3 | 7:50.60 | 5:35.45 | 35310 | 60479 4 | 13:26.30 | 4:47.23 | 60480 | 82027 5 | 18:13.53 | 4:14.43 | 82028 | 101120 6 | 22:28.21 | 3:40.69 | 101121 | 117689 7 | 26:09.15 | 4:03.03 | 117690 | 135917 8 | 30:12.18 | 3:46.04 | 135918 | 152871 9 | 33:58.22 | 5:33.71 | 152872 | 177917 10 | 39:32.18 | 2:37.51 | 177918 | 189743 Track 1 Filename I:\mp3\u2 war\01 Sunday Bloody Sunday.wav Peak level 99.6 % Track quality 100.0 % Copy CRC 321B024B Accurately ripped (confidence 70) [5D3D8856] Copy OK Track 2 Filename I:\mp3\u2 war\02 Seconds.wav Peak level 100.0 % Track quality 100.0 % Copy CRC FC8AB3AB Accurately ripped (confidence 70) [380495BE] Copy OK Track 3 Filename I:\mp3\u2 war\03 New Year's Day.wav Peak level 100.0 % Track quality 99.9 % Copy CRC A795B230 Accurately ripped (confidence 70) [2D4984F3] Copy OK Track 4 Filename I:\mp3\u2 war\04 Like A Song....wav Peak level 100.0 % Track quality 100.0 % Copy CRC 20C0CC47 Accurately ripped (confidence 70) [3FA6A333] Copy OK Track 5 Filename I:\mp3\u2 war\05 Drowning Man.wav Peak level 100.0 % Track quality 100.0 % Copy CRC F12E8AC3 Accurately ripped (confidence 71) [52A52FDD] Copy OK Track 6 Filename I:\mp3\u2 war\06 The Refugee.wav Peak level 100.0 % Track quality 100.0 % Copy CRC 3B4DFC0D Accurately ripped (confidence 71) [ABD9B5DC] Copy OK Track 7 Filename I:\mp3\u2 war\07 Two Hearts Beat As One.wav Peak level 100.0 % Track quality 100.0 % Copy CRC 42F02F16 Accurately ripped (confidence 71) [48C0C0CE] Copy OK Track 8 Filename I:\mp3\u2 war\08 Red Light.wav Peak level 100.0 % Track quality 100.0 % Copy CRC 964484EA Accurately ripped (confidence 71) [1F979B2B] Copy OK Track 9 Filename I:\mp3\u2 war\09 Surrender.wav Peak level 100.0 % Track quality 100.0 % Copy CRC 8A7E9272 Accurately ripped (confidence 71) [EA3DB800] Copy OK Track 10 Filename I:\mp3\u2 war\10 '40'.wav Peak level 100.0 % Track quality 100.0 % Copy CRC 9F483310 Accurately ripped (confidence 70) [97AF8EE9] Copy OK All tracks accurately ripped No errors occurred End of status report