Changes since Version 1.54

• Bugfix: Intermittend program faults while accessing freedb for several CD's at the same time.
• Bugfix: While copying all tracks to one file the last track have not been copied.
• Bugfix: While copying from several drives the copy process may have been interrupted.
• Bugfix: Intermittend program faults with normalisation activated.
• Bugfix: No access to external USB CDROM drives.
• Bugfix: Programm hangs at program start with some CDROM drives.
• New: Support for ISRC and freedb ID in file names and paths.
• Changed: The temp path will be used for storing intermediate data when using normalisation (more performance if the destination path is a network drive).
• Changed: Improved ASPI support.

• Bugfix: Check for duplicate filenames only within the list of selected tracks.
• Bugfix: Don't replace spaces by underscores in the base path.
• Bugfix: No longer division by zero error if the installation of Audio CoDecs is changing.
• Bugfix: Uninstall will work again using Windows 2000 and fast PC's.
• New: Copy all tracks to one file.
• New: Automatically start copying all tracks from a CD after its insertion and remove the CD afterwards.
• New: Copy all tracks from the selected drives one after the other.
• New: Support for UW-SCSI devices (with ID 8-15).
• New: Support to get track and disc names using CD-Text.
• New: Option to disable the screensaver while ripping audio tracks.
• New: Show drive capabilities.
• New: Create playlist files (global and per CD).
• Changed: Read incorrect mastered CD's.
• Changed: Support extended error detection for more CDROM drives.
• Changed: Default Internet Database is now freedb.
• Changed: Display a message if no new version is available and the user has started the update check manually.
• Changed: If the artist name for a track is empty the artist name of the CD is used.

• Bugfix: Immediatly remove queried entries from CDDB Batch list.
• Bugfix: Show complete error message while accessing CDDB.
• Bugfix: Removed some resource leaks.
• Bugfix: Fixed resources in english and hungarian languages.
• Bugfix: Sourcepath during installation couldn't be found under some circumstances.
• New: Handle tracknumber to PlugIn's to allow them to write ID3 V1.1 tags.
• New: The category can be used for file and path naming options.
• New: Added all CD information to the available parameters in scripts.
• Changed: Reduced CPU utilisation.
• Changed: Show disk number while CDDB Batch queries.

• Bugfix: Now the program is able to run again with Windows versions since 95b.
• New: Now it is possible to normalize the output files to a configurable level.
• New: The new installation allows to select a target directory.
• New: Hungarian language resources have been added.
• Changed: The paranoid mode now accepts 2 identical copies as minimum.
• Changed: The program saves now the minimized and maximized state.

• Bugfix: Removed several bugs regarding the GUI.
• Bugfix: PlugIn Initialisation of incorrectly installed PlugIns will not longer crash the program.
• New: Added Paranoid Copy mode option to reread the sectors several times until some identical copies have been found.
• New: French language resources have been added.
• New: Switched from one multi-language rescource to separate language modules, allowing the user to choose the prefered language.

• Bugfix: Spin-Up Feature doesn't worked in version 1.49 (without Service Pack)
• Bugfix: Copy selection feature may hang in error case until user aborts it manually
• Bugfix: Check some additional parameters for valid values to avoid program hang
• Bugfix: Remove double slashes from the pathname if no disk and artist name is given
• Bugfix: Long entries in CDPLAYER.INI have not worked
• Bugfix: Possible page fault during drive detection under Windows NT
• Changed: Toolbars have been splitted into groups which can now be enabled and placed like you want
• Changed: Custom configuration of displayed columns in the track list, including the order of them
• New: Swap left and right channel
• New: Automatic check for Online Program updates
• New: Track and Disk names can be read from the internet over the Escient ® CDDB (TM) Database
• New: Batch mode to access several CD's in the CDDB Database at once
• New: Several functions are now available directly over a toolbar button

Changes since Version 1.48:

• Bugfix: The detection of the beginning of a track is termintated more quickly if a read error occurs at the beginning of a track
• Bugfix: A rate of 2:1 between the read sectors and the sectors to be synchronized could result in an endless loop
• Bugfix: It has been possible that the copy process hangs at the end due to a wrong calculated buffer level
• Changed: The length of the last audio track of an CD-Extra CD is corrected
• Changed: Improved detection of the available reading speeds
• Changed: With the stop Button the CD will no longer spin down immediatly
• Changed: The speed selection has been extended for the current Plextor CD-Writer models
• Added: With Plextor CDROM drives (not with the CD-Writers) an enhanced error detection can be performed and if a problem has occured the data can be read again
• Added: Now is is possible that the reading speed is automatically lowered if a read problem occurs

Changes since Version 1.47:

• Bugfix: Duplicate names are now correctly detected
• Bugfix: Improved check for invalid file- and pathnames. Additionaly spaces in pathnames can now replaced with other chars
• Bugfix: Under some circumstances WinDAC32 was not able to start
• Bugfix: The PCM format of the ACM filters has been used incorrectly (especially for mono formats)
• Changed: The buffer level for the ring buffer is now displayed. An additional result of this that the application doesn't seem to hang any longer, while only data from the ring buffer is written
• Changed: The displayed speed and percent value are now refering the the written data. The old way can be used alternatively
• Changed: The used CDROM drive name is displayed in the copy dialog
• Added: A standard sound can be played after finishing the copy process
• Added: Support for PlugIn's, enabling WinDAC32 to write directly in special file formats

Changes since Version 1.46:

• Bugfix: In the Normal-Copymode it comes to music fragments at the end of a track
• Bugfix: The speed selection for Plextor CD-Writer has not worked
• Bugfix: Since version 1.45 the wait for the end of an external program hasn't worked
• Changed: The speed selection capabilities for the current Plextor models has been added
• Changed: Moved copy process to it's own thread to support real simaltanous audio extraction with more than one CDROM drive

Changes since Version 1.45:

• Added: Added Windows 2000 compability
• Bugfix: Fixed bug in ring buffer
• Bugfix: Wrong dialog for file name settings in english version
• Bugfix: Save size of tracknumber column

Changes since Version 1.41:

• Added: Support for Cyberdrive SCSI CDROM drives
• Added: "Classic" Copy mode with user interface as in versions before 1.40
• Changed: The copy process is performed in separated threads to allow more flawless working
• Changed: CDPLAYER.INI can grow above 64kB
• Changed: More flexible settings for filename and path
• Changed: Script variables updated to new settings
• Bugfix: Various spelling errors in the English version
• Bugfix: Check for valid chars in filenames
• Bugfix: Calculation for CDPLAYER.INI CRC values for CD-Extra CD's
• Bugfix: Apply changes to CDPLAYER.INI on program exit

Changes since Version 1.40:

• Bugfix: Detection of ASPI manager configuration was wrong
• Bugfix: Under Windows NT without an ASPI manager the drive configuration causes a program failure

Changes since Version 1.33:

• Added: The Digital Audio Compatibilty test can be disabled
• Added: The drive can be spinned up before copying data
• Added: The speed selection for Plextor drives is implemented
• Added: The file names can be edited directly in the drive window
• Added: The file names can be read from the CDPLAYER.INI
• Added: The configuration has been extended and modified
• Added: The auto play function can be disabled while WinDAC32 is running
• Added: The files can be written directly to the RAW (or MP3) format
• Added: Buffer Underruns while copying in Burst copy mode can be displayed
• Added: The wave files can be written to subdirectories depending on the CD
• Added: General information about the CD like the Bar-Code could be displayed
• Added: The drive configuration has some additional error checks
• Added: If a wrong configuration of the ASPI manager is detected, WinDAC32 tries to correct it and prompts the user to reboot
• Added: Detailed error messages are displayed if the drive could report it (the messages are only in english language)
• Changed: Matsushita (Panasonic) support will now work (i hope so)
• Bugfix: Some SCSI-Flags has been wrong. this has caused some problems with some ATAPI CDROMs and with Windows NT
• Bugfix: A handle is now correctly used and so there should be at least a lower CPU utilisation
• Bugfix: Some drives has opened the tray immediately after closing it
• Bugfix: Under some circumstances the programms caused an error in the copy dialog, some more security checks should fix this
• Bugfix: The window state and position of the drive windows are correctly saved, even if the window is minimized or maximized

Changes since Version 1.31:

• Changed: Compution of required disk space make use the actual compression factor
• Changed: Matsushita (Panasonic) supports doesn't work. I have changed this but it is still untestet
• Bugfix: Ricoh drives doesn't swap the low and high Bytes as i thaught, so i reversed this
• Bugfix: Compution of required disk space doesn't work on partitions over 2 GB
• Bugfix: Some drives (Philips) detects a new CD while opening or closing the tray
• Bugfix: The speed selection for Philips CD-Writer doesn't work
• Bugfix: General protection failure while adding a new drive
• Bugfix: The error message regarding the unsupported formats has been displayed much to often. This causes that the other settings could only be done on certain circumstances
• Bugfix: After adding or removing a SCSI controller from the system no drives are displayed
• Bugfix: Some additional initialisations and checks have been added to prevent possibles program failures

Changes since Version 1.20:

• Added: Support for the installed Audio CoDecs over the Windows Audio Compression Manager
• Added: Select the copy speed for most drives if possible
• Added: Support faster copy on newer Toshiba drives
• Added: New drive types added
• Added: Display actual copy speed during copy process
• Added: Display Pre-Emphasis flag for each track
• Added: Configure displayed columns in drive window
• Added: Tool added to strip the wave header from wave files to get RAW files (or to make a pure MP3 file out of a MP3 encoded Wave file)
• Changed: Up to 5 read retries on errors in Normal- and Synch-Mode
• Changed: Prevent the disc from being removed during copy if possible
• Changed: The message box indicating to low disk space can be ignored
• Changed: The toolbar is display in the "97" style if possible
• Bugfix: General Protection Fault in Context Menus and during maximize/restore fixed

Changes since Version 1.10:

• Added: Now ATAPI CDROM drives are supported. This means not that this program work with all ATAPI CDROM drives
• Added: Now it is possible to create and edit scripts, which are executed after copying each track
• Added: If more than one track is selected, the required disc space for the selection is displayed in the statusbar
• Added: Now you can configure the default filename
• Changed: The polling for the Burst-Mode is so modified to take lower CPU time
• Changed: Any read command on Audio Data times out after 12 seconds, because without this the aplications hangs on some drives
• Changed: The TOC of the CD is read in a different way to avoid a bug in the Philips Firmware
• Changed: If a SCSI driver response an illegal value for the supported memory window, a valid value is assumed
• Bugfix: Using of less than 3 Sectors per Read causes a protection failure
• Bugfix: In the Wave format configuration the "Kill zero samples" tab couldn't detect changes

Changes since Version 1.04:

• Bugfix: Wave converting to Mono/mixed has been fixed
• Added: Display actual track in the statusbar
• Added: Support for NT Device IO