EAC - Exact Audio Copy

What works

• Ripping tracks in secure, paranoid, fast and burst modes, with and without testing.
• Running external compressors (FLAC tested).
• Submitting AccurateRip results.
• Detecting gaps.
• Creating CUE sheets with CD-TEXT and UPC/ISRC.
• Creating log files.
• Fetching external metadata via the built-in metadata provider.
• Fetching external metadata via the CUEtools plugin.
• Adding CUEtools and AcoustID information to the log file.
• Configuring plugins via the configuration dialog.

What does not

• Running the application without installing native .NET

Workarounds

The following installation will give you a working EAC installation, given you are running Wine 4.17 or higher. In this version the sxs patches have been applied. Follow the instructions at https://wiki.winehq.org/Ubuntu for winehq-devel. Install winetricks, https://wiki.winehq.org/Winetr...

My impression is that the follow method gives reproducible results.

WINEPREFIX=~/wineac WINEARCH=win32 winetricks -q dotnet20 vcrun2008

WINEPREFIX=~/wineac WINEARCH=win32 wine ~/Downloads/eac-1.3.exe

Run the installation, but don't run EAC after you are done.

WINEPREFIX=~/wineac WINEARCH=win32 winecfg

In winecfg go to libraries, add an override with the name mscorwks. Click on it edit and modify it to the option Windows. It will now show as mscorwks (native).

You are now ready to lauch!

WINEPREFIX=~/wineac WINEARCH=win32 wine ~/wineac/drive_c/Program\ Files/Exact\ Audio\ Copy/EAC.exe

The best way to check if the above works: check in de EAC options, if any plugins are present. If so: do a metadata search on a common Audio-CD. If the metadata search using CUETools does not return any results you are missing a dll override.

What was not tested

• Range ripping.
• Functionality from the "Tools" menu concerning processing WAV files (Compare, Compress, Remove Gaps, etc).
• Burning CDs from non-compliant CUE sheets.
• Erasing CD-RW discs.
• Write offset testing.
• Write features testing.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: Nvidia
• Driver: proprietary

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