EZ CD Audio Converter (formerly Easy CD-DA Extractor) is a complete software solution that combines an Audio CD Ripper, Audio Converter, Metadata Editor, and Disc Burner. It is easy to use and delivers excellent audio quality.
The software can rip audio CDs, make copies of discs, convert MP3s, and convert audio files. Also, it will possibly burn audio CDs, MP3 CDs, and data discs.
EZ CD Audio Converter supports all popular audio file formats, including 3G2, 3GP, MP1, MP2, MP3, Windows Media Audio (WMA), Ogg Vorbis (OGG), MP4, and M4A (AAC and Apple Lossless).
It also supports AAC, aacPlus (HE-AAC, AAC+, HE-AAC+PS, eAAC+), FLAC, Musepack (MPC), WavPack (WV), WAV, AIFF, Monkey’s Audio (APE), CUE, and M3U. Nero Digital (Nero AAC) is supported if Nero Burning ROM is installed on your computer.
State-of-the-art audio encoding technology. EZ CD Audio Converter probably includes the best audio codec available, the AACPlus from Coding Technologies. It also supports command-line (.exe) encoders.
EZ CD Audio Converter contains 3 separate programs:
- Audio CD Ripper – Copies audio CDs to the chosen audio format.
- Audio File Format Converter – Converts audio files from one format to another.
- CD/DVD Creator – Create multiple types of discs: burn Audio CDs, MP3 CDs/DVDs, Data CDs/DVDs, and DVD Videos.
Audio CD Ripper
Converts audio CDs to MP3 and CDA to MP3. Rip audio CDs with accurate error detection and automatically download metadata, including high-resolution cover artwork. Detects an audio CD’s CD-Text, Pre-Gaps, Pre-Emphasis, Catalog, and ISRC properties. Allows on-the-fly conversion to the selected audio format. Additionally, it can create a complete image of the original audio CD using its Disc Image feature and supports single-file and multi-file Cue Sheets (.cue).
Audio Converter
EZ CD Audio Converter efficiently converts audio files between different formats (e.g., CD to MP3, FLAC to MP3, WAV to MP3) while maintaining the best audio quality. It delivers maximum performance through parallel multicore conversions. Metadata can be downloaded automatically or entered manually, and a cover art downloader is included. Importantly, metadata is preserved during audio file conversion, with full support for ReplayGain metadata normalization. The software also converts audio from video files.
Metadata Editor
Integrated into Audio Converter – allows editing of the metadata of the present audio files. DOWNLOAD metadata and cover artwork from multiple providers. Rename files based on metadata. Calculate and save ReplayGain values of the present files.
Disc Burner
Burns audio CDs, MP3 discs, and data discs. It supports burning Cue Sheets (.cue) in all variants. It offers ReplayGain normalization and CD-Text burning. Furthermore, it burns disc images (ISO, BIN, CUE).
EZ CD Audio Converter Key features
- Easy to make use of
- Reliable
- Best audio high-quality
- Secure audio CD ripping with error detection
- Converts between all audio formats with metadata preservation
- Burn audio CDs, MP3 discs, and data discs
- The best audio codecs are included
- Automatic updates (free lifetime updates included)
- Automatic high-quality cover artwork downloads
- Features: ReplayGain, normalization, silence removal
- Convert audio from video files
- Makes 1:1 copies of CDs and DVDs
Power features of EZ CD Audio Converter
- Fast audio converter, can convert as many as 8 files in parallel
- Automatically download metadata with high-quality cover artwork from multiple providers (GD3, MusicBrainz, Freedb)
- Utilizes multi-core processors and special processor multimedia instructions (SSE, MMX) for best performance
- Gapless audio conversion, gapless pattern rate conversion
- Supports Cue Sheets (.cue), all types
- Full ReplayGain support
- Rips have hidden audio tracks (HTOA)
- CD-Text, ISRC, pre-gap, and pre-emphasis detection
Changes in EZ CD Audio Converter 12.1 :
- FLAC Codec update
- FLAC reference 1.5.0 re-optimized
- Significantly improved encoding and decoding performance
- FFMPEG 7.1 Codec Update redone (was supposed to be done in v12.0.1+, but it was not done due to a mistake)
- FFMPEG decoder update (for various media formats)
- AC-3 encoder update
- DTS encoder update
- E-AC-3 encoder update
- TrueHD encoder update
- MP3 Decoder update
- 64-bit decoding accuracy
- Significantly improved performance
- All other Audio Codecs
- General improvements in encoding and decoding performance thanks to new processor optimizations adjusted and verified for each codec
- Integrated Windows Explorer components update
- ShellTree: A possible application freeze when loading a folder item for an unreachable element is now prevented
- Some shell operations that might have caused application freezes for very slow or non-accessible elements are now handled asynchronously.
- High DPI improvements
- Context Menu: The modern “Share” command, which was introduced with Windows 10, is now working in ShellBrowser’s context menu
- ShellList: The latest update enables you to remove file extensions during renaming operations, even if Windows Explorer is configured to hide them — a feature that was ineffective in prior versions
- Filename Preview now shows CUE, LOG, M3U, and Album Art filenames.
- New metadata support
- PERFORMER
- SPARS code
- Improved “Delete Source files after conversion” so that the deletion is done after the final metadata update (so the source file(s) will not be deleted if the final metadata update fails)
- Improved Cue Sheet [.cue] metadata support
- Added support for (optionally) writing ‘Label’, ‘Catalog number’, ‘Copyright’, and ‘Conductor’ metadata
- Added support for reading ‘Publisher’, ‘Comment’, ‘Label’, ‘Catalog number’, ‘Copyright, and ‘Conductor’ metadata.
- The cosmetic UI scaling bug in Settings/General/Metadata was fixed.
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 11.
