Exact Audio Copy

Exact Audio Copy is a new audio grabber for CD-ROM drives. The main differences between most other audio grabbers: It works with a new technology, reading audio CDs almost perfectly. If there are any errors that ca not 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.It uses the Windows Audio Compression Manager (ACM Codecs) for direct compression e.g. to MP3 waves. EAC also supports automatic ID3 tagging via freedb or a local Database.

The main differences between EAC and most other audio grabbers are :
· It is free (for non-commercial purposes)
· It works with a technology, which reads audio CDs almost perfectly. If there are any errors that cannot 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

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.