Easy CD-DA Extractor to Support AAC/MP4

It’s all about the AAC these days, mostly thanks to the hype that Apple iTunes have created. Poikosoft has announced an updated version 5.1.0.4 of their powerful audio CD ripper/encoder/burner with AAC support. Besides being one of the oldest and most popular audio CD rippers, the Easy CD-DA Extractor is best known for it’s powerful anti-copy protection routines.

How Easy CD-DA Bypasses Copy Protections
The copy protected discs have a data session and an audio session on the CD. Regular CD audio player bypasses the data session and plays the audio portion of the disc. One major issue with copy protections is that some players don’t find the audio session on the disc (for example some MP3 enabled players). Computers read the data sessions and the audio tracks are kind of "behind" the data session.

Easy CDDA uses several measures in order to discover the audio session from the protected CD.

In the "Action" menu you’ll find the "Read Table of Contents" function:

Auto = reads the disc as usual and recognizes if the TOC is invalid = the disc is protected. The software performs session analysis in order to extract proper TOC information. If this fails the software performs sub-code analysis on the disc for the same purpose.

Normal = Easy CDDA reads the disc normally and doesn’t detect protections

Session Analyze = Reads the session information on the disc and looks for the audio session information

Subcode Analyze = Scans every track on the disc and detects all sessions.

Not all drives support the 'Session Analyze' function and therefore the 'Subcode Analyze' function was also developed. With these two methods, any CD drive should be able to discover copy protected audio tracks from the disc.

Easy CD-DA Extractor website: poikosoft.com.