- Exact Audio Copy (EAC) v0.9 beta1

The author of EAC at the latest version also added special features in order to make reading/ripping of protected AudioCDs easier. The secondary C2 extraction mode and the manual detection of TOC are useful if a CD is defective and displays wrong track positions or data tracks instead of audio, EAC will try to detect the CD structure by analysis. For this, your drive must support Gap Detection mode B.

When the EAC v0.9x version is being used will automatically detect the copy protected CDs and will display only the correct Audio tracks. Under the Drive properties we can found a new setting for ripping our protected Audio CDs (Use C2 error information for error correction). Note that even EAC's new features many drives will not be able to rip the disc's contents!

- AOpen RW5120A (Burst Mode)

As the following picture shows, the reading/testing CRC checksums are not the same at all audio tracks!

- AOpen RW5120A (Secure Mode - C2 error information for error correction)

This time we had better results. We had problems only at 3 tracks, meaning the ripping quality wasn't perfect (as we would like too). Lower reading speed doesn't seem to affect the ripping quality.

- AOpen CRW2440 (Burst Mode)

With AOpen CRW2440 we have better results but still some tracks are not correctly ripped:

- AOpen CRW2440A (Secure Mode - C2 error information for error correction)

This time only 2 tracks didn't ripped correctly: