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<!-- Use the structure provided in this template, do not change it! --> <!-- Note that to use the image field, you should leave the value as {{PAGENAMEE}}.png (or similar) and upload a copy of the image. Hot-linking is not supported. If you don't want an image, just remove that line. --> <!-- Add relevant categories to describe the content type that the tool addresses, such as: [[Category:Audio]] or [[Category:Document]] or [[Category:Research Data]] Choose carefully, and view the list of existing categories first (see the Navigation sidebar on the left). If the tool works on any content type, do not add a category. --> == Description == <!-- Describe the what the tool does, focusing on it's digital preservation value. Keep it factual. --> Exact Audio Copy (EAC) has three options for copying media: Copy Selected Tracks Uncompressed, Copy Selected Track Compressed, and Copy Image and Cue Sheet. In secure mode EAC either reads every audio sector at least twice or relies on extended error information that some drives are able to return with the audio data. By using this technique non-identical sectors are detected. If an error occurs (read or sync error), the program keeps on reading this sector, until eight of 16 retries are identical, but at maximum one, three or five times (according to the selected error recovery quality) these 16 retries are read. So, in the worst case, bad sectors are read up to 82 times. Exact Audio Copy uses several technologies like multi-reading with verify and AccurateRip. ==== Online Help ==== http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Category:EAC_Guides http://www.digital-inn.de/forums/exact-audio-copy-english.14/ ==== Owner ==== The software is owned and managed by Andre Wiethoff. == User Experiences == <!-- Add hotlinks to user experiences with the tool (eg. blog posts). These should illustrate the effectiveness (or otherwise) of the tool. Use a bullet list. --> * http://campuspress.yale.edu/borndigital/2016/12/20/to-image-or-copy-the-compact-disc-digital-audio-dilemma/ * http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/9581 * https://archives.library.illinois.edu/staff-resources/digital-workflow/born-digital-workflow/accessioning/extract-from-source-media/ripping-audio-records-using-exact-audio-copy/ == Development Activity == <!-- Provide *evidence* of development activity of the tool. For example, RSS feeds for code issues or commits. --> All development activity is visible on http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/en/index.php/resources/whats-new/whats-new/ <!-- Add the OpenHub.com ID for the tool, if known. -->