Exact Audio Copy

Exact Audio Copy: FREE audio grabber for CD-ROM drives

Exact Audio Copy is a free CD ripping application capable of reading audio CDs with great accuracy, even for some damaged or scratched CDs.

Exact Audio Copy was designed to convert audio tracks from CDs to WAV files that support conversion to a large number of popular audio file formats such as MP3, AAC, OGG, ALAC, FLAC and others.

Features:
- Supports a large number of CD and DVD drives.
- Hidden sector synchronization is enabled.
- Secure, fast and burst extraction methods are available.
- Secure mode allows detection of read errors and complete losses of sync and correction.
- Time positions of all non-exact corrections are provided.
- Capable of copying ranges of music data besides tracks.
- Speed is automatically reduced on read errors and returns to higher speed afterwards.
- User-defined volume normalization.
- Direct compression performed using Windows Audio Compression manager.
- LAME DLL is supported.
- External MP3, WMA, FLAC and OggVorbis encoders are supported.
- Batch compression/decompression to and from WAV files is supported.
- Support for compression offset is enabled, allowing exact compression and decompression.
- Pre-track gaps detection and detection of silence in pre-track gaps is enabled.
- CUE sheets for Burnnn, Feurio, Nero and Exact Audio Copy are created automatically.
- CD player functionality and prelistening to selected ranges is supported.
- Drive features are automatically detected.
- Sample offsets for drives with non-accurate streams.
- Synchronizing between tracks for non-accurate stream drives.
- Track-name editing is enabled, with support for local/remote CD databases.
- Certified Escient ® CDDB(TM) Compatible.
- Local support is enabled for CDDB.
- Record and loop record functions are available for recording from various sources such as LP, radio and others.
- MP3 automatic renaming function based on the ID3 tag.
- Function for catalog extraction.
- Multisession support is enabled.
- CD-Text support and CD-Write support (for some drives).
- ID3 V 1.1 tag editor from track listing and CD database browser with drag and drop support.
- Post-extraction glitch removal function.
- Small WAV editor allows you to delete, trim, normalize, pad, glitch removal, pop detection, interpolation of ranges, noise reduction, fade in/out, undo …etc.
- Free for non-commercial use.