Download Exact Audio Copy 1.0 beta 1

After a series of alpha releases, or ‘prebetas’ as the makers call it, the first beta release of version 1.0 Exact Audio Copy has now been released. Exact Audio Copy is an advanced audio extraction program for reading protected or unprotected audio CDs into the computer, whereby you can choose almost any compression format imaginable. The program was developed by Andre Wiethoff, out of dissatisfaction with the extraction programs at the time, which often had poor results with damaged CDs. Exact Audio Copy uses a reading technique with which errors can be detected with very high reliability and in many cases even corrected. Through the AccurateRipplugin, the quality of the rip can be compared with that of other users. Below is the changelog of this release.

Here comes a list of the new features:

• Unicode support for all fields (but not CD-Text)
• New database engine for storing CD information (old databases can be imported)
• Metadata plugin support, for now there is a freedb plugin included. This will be released as open source freeware soon.
• Cover support, can be drag’n’dropped from a file, a web page or can be retrieved via a metadata plugin (support included in the freedb plugin). Cover can be written into tags or in the extraction directory
• AccurateRip v2 support
• Better Windows 7 support (like progress display in taskbar icon, storage of user data in the correct folders, etc.)
• Free selection of first track track number (including option to continue numbering from the last inserted CD)
• Option to always write the log file in english language
• Option for writing a checksum over the extraction log data to the log file
• Average extraction speed is listed in the log file
• Possibility to write only V2 tags (and no V1 tags)
• Free choice of replacement characters for filenames
• Range copy selects now the first selected consecutive range of tracks as default
• New folder browser dialog (system dialog for folders)
• Added two placeholders for filename creation for track length (min and sec)
• Test for (command line) compression options (and display of a sample command line)
• Menu for removing unwanted/doubled spaces from “cd title”, “artist” & “track titles”

And some features are now removed:

• Removed Windows 2000 support (and any older OSs)
• Removed ID3V1 tag editor
• Removed compression offset

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