Review: Exact Audio Copy 0.99 - Perfect CD copies or just hype?
Over the last few years Exact Audio Copy (EAC) has gotten a reputation as one of the best (if not the very best) audio CD ripping tool around. Despite being officially designated as “prebeta” software it’s actually one of the most reliable and full-featured audio tools available. We’ve recently added three guides that take you from installation to ripping CDs, and even explain how to work with the unusual CD Image backups it produces. But before you read these guides you may want to find out more about the program to see if it’s right for you.
Secure Ripping
Although most people tend to think of CDs as sounding the same every time they’re played, in reality almost every time a disc is read there are errors. With modern media like DVD, or even CD-ROMs, this can be dealt with using very sophisticated error correction to re-create the original data. Audio CDs, on the other hand, primarily use a strategy of hiding errors instead of correcting them. While this increases the amount of damage it takes to audibly reduce quality, it also increases the complexity of performing perfect backups.
| Afterdawn’s new EAC guides |
| Exact Audio Copy Installation and Configuration |
| Rip CDs With Exact Audio Copy |
| Split CD Images To Individual Tracks |
EAC uses something called Secure Ripping to address the problem. Most CD rippers simply read each block of data once and assume the results are correct. EAC reads each one multiple times and compares the results to make sure they’re the same. If they aren’t the same it reads them again. For damaged CDs this can result in rips that require hours to complete, but for discs in good, but not great condition it can be the difference between a copy that’s perfect and one that’s just pretty close.
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