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CD+G Support in Exact Audio Copy

I'm trying to find people who would be interested in having support for ripping karaoke cds - i.e. CD+G subcode channel reading capabilities to the excellent audio extraction tool - Exact Audio Copy (EAC).  I personally have much use for this, and I'd love to see EAC support it because it is so much better than any other comparible program out there in this vein, but it does not have support for CD+G as a feature.  Yet.

I'm hoping that if I can find enough people with such an interest, I can encourage the author, Andre Wiethoff to add support to the program.  I personally am willing to donate some money for his efforts, if that would encourage him further.

If anyone is interested, you may post here, and alternatively contact me at jdlien-ha /\T fullspec.ca.

CD+G Support in Exact Audio Copy

Reply #1 –
I would be interested in this as well, but my understanding is that you need a CD player capable of extracting the sub-code data to do so.  I currently use CDRWIN  to work with Karaoke CDs extracting a .BIN file which I can then split into a .RAW and a .CDG file. Once I make a .MP3 file from the .RAW file I can play the Karaoke track with the CDG plug-in of WinAmp.

Unless there is now general support for extracting the sub-code data I suspect it will be difficult to get support added to EAC.  I would like to see it, but I won't hold my breath waiting for it.
Dave

CD+G Support in Exact Audio Copy

Reply #2 –
Well, yes, one does need a CD-Rom drive capable of reading CD+G subcode data, but it does seem to be more readily supported than it had been in the past.

One problem that many programs have is that they only supported drives that read the subcode channel data, and do hardware deinterlacing.  This is more rare, and usually requires plextor drives and the old Yamaha drives.  Most lite-on, a lot of sony drives, and even the phillips drive in my laptop support basic CD+G subcode data extraction.

I've talked to Andre about it, and he's kind of said "He'll look into it" but I don't suspect he'll put much effort into it unless there are quite a few users who can obviously benefit from it.  So that being the case, I'm glad to hear from you dhdurgee!