
It's free and has all the tools others may have, but the AccurateRip feature is the main reason to have it. I can only complain about the GUI it's really old looking and needs an update, but it's functional.

You can be at ease to know that your music files will have no crackling or distortions that may ruin your speakers(it happened to me once). EAC will rip your CD perfectly or near-perfect. I prefer EAC over other rippers because I favor the AccurateRip feature that is rarely found in others. But when you calibrated it correctly it's simple to use from there. The calibrating may be a problem for some who don't understand how to calibrate EAC and end up having problems with it, so it isn't that simple to set-up for everyone. I had this problem and wrote an earlier review and gave a lower score, but I researched the problem more, found the solution and rewrote my review. If you use a CD that doesn't calibrate it well, EAC will spit out CDs and only copy certain ones. You need a good standard legit CD to help calibrate it.

It's fairly easy to use, but setting it up may be tricky if you don't know about the calibration well. Exact Audio Copy(EAC) is a CD ripper, tagger, metadata searcher and burner which uses AccurateRip to verify the copy.
