EAC release history

This is an unofficial compilation of release history info for Exact Audio Copy (EAC). If you spot missing or incomplete info, please fill it in.

Release list

1998

• 0.1 beta
• 0.2 beta
• 0.3 beta
• 0.4 beta
• 0.5 beta
• 0.6 beta
• 0.7 beta

1999

• 0.9 beta* 0.81 beta
• 0.85 beta 1
• 0.85 beta 2
• 0.85 beta 3
• 0.85 beta 4
• 0.9 prebeta 1 [was only available to prebeta testers]
• 0.9 prebeta 2 [was only available to prebeta testers]
• 0.9 prebeta 3 [was only available to prebeta testers]

2000

• 0.9 prebeta 4 [was only available to prebeta testers]
• 0.9 prebeta 5 [was only available to prebeta testers]
• 0.9 prebeta 6
• 0.9 prebeta 7

2001

• 0.9 prebeta 8
• 0.9 prebeta 9
• 0.9 prebeta 10
• 0.9 prebeta 11

2002

• 0.9 beta 1
• 0.9 beta 2
• 0.9 beta 3
• 0.9 beta 4

2003

• 0.95 prebeta 1
• 0.95 prebeta 2
• 0.95 prebeta 3
• 0.95 prebeta 4

2004

• 0.95 prebeta 5

2005

• 0.95 beta 1
• 0.95 beta 2
• 0.95 beta 3

2006

• 0.95 beta 4

2007

• 0.99 prebeta 1
• 0.99 prebeta 2
• 0.99 prebeta 3

2008

• 0.99 prebeta 4
• 1.0 beta [was only available by request]

2009

• 0.99 prebeta 5 [with eBay icon]

2010

• 0.99 prebeta 5 [new bundle with Ask toolbar instead of eBay icon]
• 1.0 beta 1

2011

• 1.0 beta 2

Detailed history

Key to columns:

• Date — An ISO 8601-formatted date, as close to the actual release date as is known, based on announcements and/or file last-modified dates.
• Version — Version name, spelled out in the visible text, like "1.0 beta 2" rather than "1.0b2", but abbreviated for the anchor ID.
• Info — Any announced or otherwise known info about the release. This can include the logfile version string, the date in which is often earlier than the actual release date.

Date	Version	Info
1998-06-25	0.1 beta	Features: Usage of the Windows 95 and Windows NT ASPI Interface, so both SCSI and ATAPI CD-ROM drives are supported Hidden sector synchronization (jitter correction) Read error and complete lost of sync detection and correction, as far as possible Output of time positions of all non exact corrections Usage of the Windows Audio Compression Manager (ACM Codecs) for direct compression e.g. to MP3 waves Program is Cardware, so feel free to copy Known bugs: On some computers the whole system hangs after a short period of time. I didn't find the solution to this problem yet, because it never happened on my computer. It is possible that any cd-player causes these problems. So try to stop any play in progress before starting EAC. Some CD-ROM drives or computer configurations does not return the correct values on drive detection, so no drives could be selected even if a drive is installed. On some computer it will work nevertheless. If a CD is inserted it will show up all tracks correctly. On some CD-ROM drives occur extreme jitter errors so the extraction will slow down to a non acceptable value (e.g. Mitsumi FX240) Sometimes the program will not copy any tracks and finish immediately. Try to restart the copy more often, it will help on some computers. The readme (EAC.TXT) includes the following: "This is a only a beta version from the final program that will be distributed later in this year, at least I hope so."