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There are many alternatives to Exact Audio Copy for Windows if you are looking for a replacement. The best Windows alternative is fre:ac, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Exact Audio Copy and many of them are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to Exact Audio Copy are File Converter, MediaMonkey, Format Factory and dBpoweramp.




File Converter is a very simple tool which allows you to convert and compress one or several file(s) using the context menu in Windows Explorer.


MediaMonkey is a music player and a music library manager with support for 50,000+ files and many features for organizing, tagging, converting and burning your music. It also has advanced podcasting and syncing features.




Format Factory is a multifunctional media converter and ripper offering video, audio, and image conversion. It rips DVDs and CDs, handles PDF and archives, supports diverse formats, and includes a screen recorder. Optimized for various devices and easy to use.




dBpoweramp contains a multitude of audio tools in one: CD Ripper, Music Converter, ID Tag Editor and Windows audio shell enhancements. Preloaded with mp3 & Wave codecs, practically every audio codec can be installed from Codec Central, as well as Utility Codecs (perform...


EZ CD Audio Converter is the most comprehensive multi format audio converter and is extremely easy to use.




CDex is a CD-Ripper, extracting digital audio data from an Audio CD. The application supports many Audio encoders, including WAV, MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, VQF, Musepack, APE, and many others.




CUERipper is a utility for extracting digital audio from CDs, an open-source alternative to EAC.

Express Rip CD ripper can convert CD audio to mp3 or wav file formats. Express Rip lets you rip, convert, encode, and decode music and other audio tracks directly to files on your hard drive.




XRECODE can convert multiple audio files in parallel by taking full advantage of multi-core CPU. Can also extract audio from video files.

A free powerful software for ripping audio CD tracks to WMA, MP3, OGG, VQF, FLAC, APE and WAV formats files on-the-fly. Free CDDB is supported(Querying & Submiting). It supports normalization when ripping, and also support ID3 tag.

Audiograbber grabs digital audio from CDs, it can automatically normalize the music, delete silence from the start and/or end of tracks, and encode them to a variety of formats including MP3. It can also access freedb, an Internet compact disc database.

Because EAC has problems with some CD drives but fre:ac does not. There is no alternative nearly as good as fre:ac.