Just wondering if anyone knew if there would be any issues with using Exact Audio Copy on Windows Vista, the new Microsoft OS that will be coming out early next year.

That program needs hardcore update for functionality and compatability....but still great nonetheless

EAC works flawlessly in Vista

EDIT: Screenshot below

Yes it does, but 'Christian Rock'?! :-/







;-)

I guess whoever submitted that freedb entry thought it was

what about 64 bit??

should work just the same.

The issue w/ 64 bit is drivers, not application compatibility

Wow, Vista is so ugly.

They ARE Christian Rock!

I think the parent poster's question would be better phrased as: "Creed?!"

(okay, i'll leave you alone now... )

I ripped a CD in 32bit Vista RC1 using EAC and it went fine. My main concern was the built in DRM stopping me but it didn't happen.

I run EAC on Vista Ultimate x64 without problems.

There is no "built in DRM" for CD ripping. What's implemented in Vista are all things necessary to enforce restrictive DRM. For example, the audio drivers aren't allowed direct hardware access anymore. This affects EAX/DTS/Dolby/AC3/etc. decoding via the soundcard, which is no longer possible. Creative is working on a so-called OpenAL wrapper as a workaround for EAX sound on their X-Fi soundcards, but all other hardware features will remain unused, it seems. They are all done by the CPU in software now. This is all to ensure that DRM can't be easily hacked.

And that sort of restriction is absolutely ridiculous. I can't wait until someone cracks that and rubs it into MS's face.

Thanx for that Vista DRM clarafication. There is a lot of FUD out there.

When Vista beta 2 was installed on my computer, I had terrible skipping issue with the sound. I suspected k-mixer or whatever Vista uses because the kernal driver plugin for Winamp and foobar 2000 played skip free while WMP11 couldn't. So this is still software decoding but the faulty k-mixer was bypassed. Subsequent releases of RC1 and RC2 didn't have the problem.

Vista is such a resource hog already that it's a shame MS is breaking the advantages of direct hardware decoding. They figure the multiple core processors can handle it for the average PC user.

All the new Intel chips and most likely newer AMD chips also have the hardware DRM built in so Vista can enforce it to the point that it might not be worth the hassle for people to try and hack it.

I wasn't sure what level of DRM to expect from Vista so I tested a few of my everyday fair usage media/data copy/ripping/encoding/playing to test multimedia apps and purchased recordings. I am still also able to rip online mp3 streams to my hard drive.

Who knows what future Vista updates might do?

wait...you mean to say my spdif output on my digital mystique will NOT OUTPUT TO MY RECEIVER ANYMORE???

It should still work. I had Windows Vista RC2 on my notebook and its digital coaxil connection (SPDIF) worked just fine. I just had to use software to output to Dolby Digital 5.1, I could not longer use hardware acceleration. I did have a audio glitch of a different type. My notebook is a Dell Inspiron XPS Gen. 2. It has a larger speaker located underneath of it, right by the battery. This larger speaker really improves the sound output when I use my notebook's speakers (which I use a lot due to others sleeping during the day). Windows Vista RC2 was unable to output sound through this speaker so my notebook sounded just like any average system.

Slight correction. Audio card vendors can use hardware level acceleration with Vista... but they'll need to use OpenAL. FYI: http://www.openal.org/openal_vista.html Anyway, the changes/improvements in the audio subsystem was a good move in my opinion... especially for overall stability/compatibility.

kornchild2002, you'll probably need an updated driver from your vendor to get back your "special" speaker. That's expected.

Wow, way off topic...

But the question is "does it still report C2 errors, and does it still flush the drive's cache in order to detect errors ?"



Does it mean that bit-exact playback will become eventually impossible ?

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This topic is important to me. Someone could answers these questions above?

c2 error reporting and cache flushing work with all my drives in Vista x64

Anyone have an answer to Pio's question about bit-exact playback maybe being impossible on Vista?

FWIW, Vista x64 still allows me to rip my CD collection with EAC even with all the secuity patches and updates LOL