Freeware CD track ripping and extraction tool supporting WAV, MP3 and OGG/Vorbis audio file formats with marginal losses in quality.
If you're looking for a freeware tool to create backups of audio tracks for your CD collection, then Exact Auto Copy might be a tool to take a look at.
With this software utility, you can create perfect copies of music in digital audio format which is suitable for playing back on your PC, portable audio device or inside your car with a Bluetooth connection or USB thumb drive.
Exact Audio Copy features a clean user interface that's easy-to-use and provides a number of shortcuts. Notably on the left-hand side, you can copy your audio tracks to WAV, CMP, IMG or WRI format. You may also specify other formats such as MP3, FLAC or WMA Lossless in the Encoder Selection while using the wizard tool.
On top of the ability to create digital audio file formats for playback on other devices, Exact Audio Copy can also help you out by applying ID3 tags to the music files it saves.
All in all and with the wizard tools, Exact Audio Copy is a useful tool for backing up music from audio CDs instead of lugging around jewel cases in your glovebox.
Features of Exact Audio Copy
- Automatic creation of CUE sheets for Burnnn, Feurio, Nero or even EAC, which can include all gaps, indicies, track attributes, UPC and ISRC and also CD-Text for an exact copy.
- Automatic detection of drive features, whether a drive has an accurate stream and/or does caching.
- Automatic speed reduction on read errors and fallback to a higher speed afterwards (depends on the used drive).
- Batch compression to WAV files and decompression of supported encoded files to WAV.
- CD player functionality and prelistening to selected ranges.
- Compression offset support for exact compression/decompression.
- Copy ranges of music data, not only tracks.
- Detection of pre-track gaps (positions where negative track times runs towards 00:00:00).
- Detection of silence in pre-track gaps.
- Sample offsets for drives with noaccurate streams, including the option of filling up missing samples with silence.
- Support for the LAME DLL that is usable like an ACM Codec for on-the-fly MP3 compression.
- Support of external MP3, WMA, flac and OggVorbis encoders for automatic compression after extraction (supports multi-processor environments).
- Synchronizing between tracks for non-accurate stream drives.
- Usage of the Windows Audio Compression manager (ACM Codecs) for direct compression to e.g. MP3 waves.
- Volume normalization of extracted audio to a given percentage.
Compatibility and License
Exact Audio Copy is provided under a freeware license on Windows from CD ripper software with no restrictions on usage. Download and installation of this PC software is free and 1.6 is the latest version last time we checked.
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