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All-in-one audio application. Rip audio cd's, convert audio files and burn audio cd's.

Easy CD-DA Extractor supports following audio file formats: MP1, MP2, MP3, Windows Media Audio 8, Windows Media Audio 9, Windows Media Audio 9.1, Ogg Vorbis, MP4, M4A, AAC, FLAC, Musepack, VQF, WAV, AIFF, Monkey's Audio, and Shorten.

Features:

• Audio CD Ripper features :
- Hi-performance multithreaded buffered CD-ripping & encoding
- Copies "Copy-Protected" CDs
- Error Recovery, reads audio from badly scratched CDs
- Download and upload disc information from/to the freedb, the Internet Compact Disc Database.
- Volume Normalizer and Compressor
- Fade In/Out
- Silence deletion from the start and end of a song
- Reads CD-Text
- Output Formats: MP3, Windows Media Audio 8 and 9, Ogg Vorbis, MP4, M4A, AAC, FLAC, Musepack, VQF, WAV, AIFF, Monkey's Audio, and any command line encoder
• Audio File Format Converter features :
- Volume Normalizer
- Volume Compressor
- Fade In/Out
- Silence deletion from the start and end of a song
- Input formats: MP1, MP2, MP3, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, MP4, M4A, AAC, FLAC, Musepack, WAV, Shorten, and Monkey's Audio
- Output Formats: MP3, Windows Media Audio 8 and 9, Ogg Vorbis, MP4, M4A, AAC, FLAC, Musepack, VQF, WAV, AIFF, and Monkey's Audio, and any command line encoder
• Audio CD Creator features:
- Supports all CD-recorders without need to update the program when a new CD-recorder becomes available, all CD-recorder parameters are automatically detected!
- Writes CD-Text
- Supports buffer underrun prevention technologies
- Input Formats: MP1, MP2, MP3, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, MP4, M4A, AAC, FLAC, Musepack, WAV, and Monkey's Audio

What's New:

11.5

Easy CD-DA Extractor supports following audio file formats: MP1, MP2, MP3, Windows Media Audio 8, Windows Media Audio 9, Windows Media Audio 9.1, Ogg Vorbis, MP4, M4A, AAC, FLAC, Musepack, VQF, WAV, AIFF, Monkey's Audio, and Shorten. Also, the Nero Digital (Nero AAC) is supported if you have the Nero Burning ROM installed on your computer.

Easy CD-DA Extractor actually contains three separate programs:

• Audio CD Ripper - Rips audio CD's.
• Audio File Format Converter - Converts audio files from one format to another.
• Audio CD Creator - Creates audio CD's from audio files.

Features of Easy CD-DA Extractor 11.5 :

• Audio CD Ripper features :
- Hi-performance multithreaded buffered CD-ripping & encoding
- Copies "Copy-Protected" CDs
- Error Recovery, reads audio from badly scratched CDs
- Download and upload disc information from/to the freedb, the Internet Compact Disc Database.
- Volume Normalizer and Compressor
- Fade In/Out
- Silence deletion from the start and end of a song
- Reads CD-Text
- Output Formats: MP3, Windows Media Audio 8 and 9, Ogg Vorbis, MP4, M4A, AAC, FLAC, Musepack, VQF, WAV, AIFF, Monkey's Audio, and any command line encoder
• Audio File Format Converter features :
- Volume Normalizer
- Volume Compressor
- Fade In/Out
- Silence deletion from the start and end of a song
- Input formats: MP1, MP2, MP3, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, MP4, M4A, AAC, FLAC, Musepack, WAV, Shorten, and Monkey's Audio
- Output Formats: MP3, Windows Media Audio 8 and 9, Ogg Vorbis, MP4, M4A, AAC, FLAC, Musepack, VQF, WAV, AIFF, and Monkey's Audio, and any command line encoder
• Audio CD Creator features:
- Supports all CD-recorders without need to update the program when a new CD-recorder becomes available, all CD-recorder parameters are automatically detected!
- Writes CD-Text
- Supports buffer underrun prevention technologies
- Input Formats: MP1, MP2, MP3, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, MP4, M4A, AAC, FLAC, Musepack, WAV, and Monkey's Audio

Easy CD-DA Extractor 11 adds MP3 DVD, Data DVD, and DVD Video burning and Metadata Editor. Easy CD-DA Extractor 11 also includes improved user interface, improved performance, improved Windows Explorer context menus, and bug fixes.

Changes in Easy CD-DA Extractor 11.5 :

- New AccurateCDDA(tm) Audio CD -ripping engine
- Improved Audio CD -ripping & CD/DVD-burning performance
- Make disc image (CD/DVD)
- Burn disc image (CD/DVD)
- Faster startup
- FLAC 1.2.1 encoder/decoder
- Improved user interface
- Ogg Vorbis cover art metadata update (now uses standard method for storing cover art)
- Bugfix: Adding files to the Audio Converter no longer hangs the program (which happened in rare cases)
- Bugfix: Trying to convert unsupported or corrupt audio files in Audio Converter no longer crash the program
- Bugfix: Browse to network now works