Exact Audio Copy is abbreviated as EAC, which is used to save audio tracks in CDDA (Audio CD) to the computer.
Note: It is not possible to obtain digital audio tracks by copying records directly in Windows Explorer.
Download link: https://www.exactaudiocopy.de/en/index.php/resources/download/
Currently, the latest version of EAC is 1.6, and the update date is 2020-10-23.
Run the installer after downloading, and open it after installation. EAC supports Simplified Chinese.
Select an appropriate database in EAC, such as FreeDB, to obtain CD information.
When you hover the mouse over each item in the option, a help message will pop up. E.g:
In the EAC→EAC option of the menu bar, set the error correction quality to high.
In EAC→Drive options, on the Capture Mode tab, select the detection and reading characteristics. After the detection is completed, cancel the check. The drive has the ability to correct C2 error reports.
There are three modes in this tab:
fast capture can get the same speed as other audio track capture software, but it may not be so accurate;
burst mode just captures the audio track data without any synchronization processing, the result is that there may be popping , The sound is interrupted;
and in the safe mode, as much as possible to detect and correct reading errors and complete synchronization detection. In this mode, the reading rate can be much lower than the nominal rate of the optical drive.
On the Drive tab, click Now automatically detect the read command.
The check drive supports CD-Text reading.
In the menu bar EAC→compression option, in the external compression program tab, check the use of external compression program.
The parameter transfer scheme selects a user-defined encoder.
Use the file extension to modify the .flac
compression program and select the path where flac.exe is located.
If flac is not installed, you can download and unzip it at https://xiph.org/flac/download.html .
Fill in additional command line options
-8 -V -T "ARTIST=%artist%" -T "TITLE=%title%" -T "ALBUM=%albumtitle%" -T "DATE=%year%" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%tracknr%" -T "GENRE=%genre%" -T "COMMENT=%comment%" -T "BAND=%albuminterpret%" -T "ALBUMARTIST=%albuminterpret%" -T "COMPOSER=%composer%" %haslyrics%--tag-from-file=LYRICS="%lyricsfile%"%haslyrics% -T "DISCNUMBER=%cdnumber%" -T "TOTALDISCS=%totalcds%" -T "TOTALTRACKS=%numtracks%" %hascover%--picture="%coverfile%"%hascover% %source% -o %dest%
Insert the disc that needs to be ripped audio tracks. If prompted to configure AccurateRip, follow the prompts for one-key automatic configuration. This process corrects the offset.
In the menu bar Operation → Grab selected audio track, select the compressed sub-menu to start sub-track grabbing.
Or click the 
icon on the left to grab the entire track.
After selecting the directory, start crawling and wait for the crawling to complete.
Every time a track is fetched, flac.exe will be called to compress and fill in metadata such as track number, title, artist, and album.
After the fetch is completed, a log file will be generated in the directory where the fetched result is located. If you grab the entire track, there will be an extra AccurateRip summary.
The EAC compares the fetched results with the results already in the AccurateRip database. When there is a match, it means that the CD is captured correctly and is genuine.
If it fails to match, it may be:
[1] An error occurred during the capture process and the calibration failed.
[2] The CD is relatively old, and data has been lost.
[3] The CD is not genuine.
[4] The hash of this CD is not included in the database.
PC optical drives cannot support SACD capture, except for some of the earlier PS3s and a few optical drives running older versions of firmware may capture successfully. When the SACD disc only contains the SACD layer, the optical drive cannot read the disc, and only a special SACD player can play the disc (SACD’s copyright protection is very strict, and the player cannot capture SACD data); if the SACD disc contains Audio -CD layer, non-SACD players can read this ordinary CD layer.
Example of log generated after crawling:
Tracking
Whole track
