Download Exact Audio Copy 1.0 beta 4

More than three years after the previous beta release, beta 4 of version 1.0 of 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 André Wiethoff, out of dissatisfaction with the extraction programs at the time, which often achieved 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 are the release notes for this release.

what’s new

The last update was a really long time ago, but finally here comes a new version of EAC.
There are no larger new features, but bug fixes mainly regarding drive detection and problems on installing the .NET plugins made it necessary to release this service update.

Also I updated the freedb++ plugin, so that it again finds more covers to choose from. This plugin will be released as public domain shortly (I always wanted to do that, but I always wanted to comment the whole code first – I gave up on that…)

Finally I updated several included external components, like CTDB and Flac.

Hopefully everything works right out of the box, as there aren’t that much changes in it anyway.