Surely over the years we have been accumulating all kinds of original music CDs (or not so original). These used to be heard on music channels, on the computer and even in the car. However, nowadays music CDs are barely heard anymore. MP3 music, and streaming music platforms have completely revolutionized the way we listen to music in our daily lives. Therefore, if we still keep our old music CDs at home and want to continue enjoying them, the best thing we can do is pass them to MP3.
Exact Audio Copy is a simple free program that, as the name implies, allows us to extract audio from any music CD easily.
This program makes use of a high precision algorithm that, unlike other programs, allows us to extract music from discs with hardly any errors. In the event that a reading error occurs on the disk that cannot be solved, the program will tell us where the problem is. So we can choose to search for the song in another source, or repair the distortion with some music editor.
Main features
Although at first glance it may seem like the simplest program, its developers have implemented a large number of internal functions to make the program as simple as possible to use and, above all, ensure maximum accuracy.
This program is compatible with all types of audio CDs and DVDs. In addition, it has hidden sector synchronization functions, which allows the jitter of many disks to be corrected. The program detects all kinds of reading errors and synchronization losses and repairs them, whenever possible.
The extraction methods used by this program are:
- Safe: guarantees the highest quality and synchronization in the extraction.
- Fast: faster method, but without jitter correction.
- Burst: Capture the audio without any synchronization.
The program is very easy to use. If we have an audio CD in our reader, it will automatically recognize and read it. We can see all the audio tracks of it in a moment. After filling the metadata of the disk, with a couple of clicks we can begin the conversion of the document. In addition, it is compatible with various external encoders, such as MP3, WMA, FLAC and OggVorbis.
Other of the most important features of this program are:
- It allows you to copy music ranges, not just tracks.
- Automatically adjust the reading speed of the songs.
- Normalize the extracted audio.
- Use the Windows audio compression manager to adjust direct compression.
- Use DLL LAME together with the ACM codec to compress the MP3 on the fly.
- Detect the silences at the beginning of the song.
- It allows to edit the metadata of the songs according to local and remote databases. And rename the files according to the ID3 information.
In addition, if we are advanced users who like to customize every detail of the programs, it has an advanced mode that will allow us to adjust to the last parameter of the program from the Settings menu.
How to download Exact Audio Copy
Exact Audio Copy is a completely free program for personal use. If we want to use it, we can download the latest version available from the following link .
This program has no limitations (as long as it is not used for commercial purposes), and also does not install any type of unwanted software on our computer.
