Poikosoft releases Easy CD-DA Extractor version 6.5

January 20, 2004

Poikosoft informed us that Easy CD-DA Extractor has been updated to version 6.5. Easy CD-DA
Extractor can be used to convert your audio CDs to all kinds of other formats
such as MP3, WMA, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis and AAC. The software is also able to beat
the nasty copy protections currently available on the market which make it
difficult to convert your CDs to e.g MP3 so you can play them on your portable
MP3 player. The changelog for this version is as follows:

Easy CD-DA Extractor v6.5:

Updated MP3 encoder;
Speed & Quality improvements (LAME 3.95.1)

"Turboed" WMA
decoder; Conversions from WMA files to other formats are now up to 100
times faster

Compressor;
Similar to normalization except it adjusts volume level higher on quiet
parts of a song; Useful for music that is going to be listened with a
portable player or in a car CD-player

Latest ID3V2 tag
standard supported; ID3V2 v2.4.0

Updated interface
allows entering additional ID3V2 fields such as Comment, URL,
Copyright

Speed up MP3 decoding;
File Converter and CD Creator now has more powerful MP3 decoding

Enhanced the CD-ripping
robustness; Added timeout that cancels the operation if the CD-reader does
not respond for commands plus prevention of illegal CD-reader settings for
error recovery modes

AAC (MPEG-2/AAC); updated encoder

MP4 (MPEG-4/AAC); updated encoder

M4A (MPEG-4/AAC); updated encoder

Ogg Vorbis; updated encoder and decoder (Ogg
Vorbis 1.0.1)

Ogg Vorbis; Fixed a bug reading the metadata

FLAC; Fixed a bug reading the metadata

FLAC; Compression Levels 0-8 (Improved
lossless compression ratio when CL8 is used)

M4A (MPEG-4/AAC); Changed metadata reading
& writing iTunes compatible

Audio CD Creator; Shows the track number
from ID3 tag, sort by filename, title, number, and length

Bugfix: Auto freedb now works when Auto read
CD-Text is enabled and no CD-Text is found from the disc