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CD-DA Extractor 3 2nd beta (build 168)
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Background
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CD-DA Extractor 3 has completely redesigned/rewritten since version 2.xx.

Package (cddae3_build168.zip) should contain following files
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CDDAE.EXE       ; Main module 
CDDAENT.EXE     ; NT Launcher - NT SCSI interface (not using WNASPI32.DLL)
ACM.DLL         ; Audio Compression Manager - Compression driver
ASPICD.DLL      ; CD Interface
BLADEENC.DLL    ; MP3 Compression thru BLADEENC.EXE
L3ENC.DLL       ; MP3 Compression thru L3ENC.EXE (Fraunhoffer)
MP3ENC.DLL      ; MP3 Compression thru MP3ENC.EXE (Fraunhoffer)
NTASPI.DLL      ; ASPI for NT (NT SCSI interface)
PCM.DLL         ; PCM Converter
TOMPG.DLL       ; MP3 Compression thru TOMPG.EXE (Xing technology)
BETA.TXT        ; Readme file - you are reading it right now

What is new? (since 1st beta)
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- BUGFIX: Access violation if file creation occured
- BUGFIX: File creation error if folder name ending with a space character
- Background of the main window uses Windows color
- NT SCSI interface
- MP3 Compression thru BLADEENC
- MP3 Compression thru L3ENC
- MP3 Compression thru TOMPG
- NEC support changed to same as it is in Windows NT
- Miscellaneous changes

Note
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COMCTL32.DLL version 4.70 or later is required. (included in Windows NT 4.0, Windows 98
and Windows 95 with Internet Explorer 4, maybe included in Windows 95 OSR2)

Final shipping version will have latest COMCTL32.DLL in it.

NT-SCSI
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CD-DA Extractor 3 can now use CD-devices without ASPI for Win32 under Windows NT.

CDDAE.EXE - Uses ASPI for Win32 (WNASPI32.DLL)
CDDAENT.EXE - Uses NT-SCSI interface (No ASPI for Win32 required), propably fixes the 
problem of detecting some ATAPI devices on some systems under Windows NT (which really is 
ASPI for Win32 problem). This mode uses less processor time than 'ASPI for Win32' - mode.

Beta testing
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Following features should be tested with different computer configurations:
- NT SCSI interface (launch CDDAENT.EXE)
- Normal ASPI mode (launch CDDAE.EXE)
- Audio Compression Manager - Compression driver
- MP3 Compression thru BLADEENC.EXE
- MP3 Compression thru L3ENC.EXE (Fraunhoffer)
- MP3 Compression thru MP3ENC.EXE (Fraunhoffer)
- PCM Converter
- MP3 Compression thru TOMPG.EXE (Xing technology)

BLADEENC.EXE, L3ENC.EXE, MP3ENC.EXE and TOMPG.EXE can be downloaded from different
shareware sites like http://www.mp3.com

L3ENC.EXE - http://www.iis.fhg.de/audio
MP3ENC.EXE - http://www.iis.fhg.de/audio
BLADEENC.EXE - http://home8.swipnet.se/~w-82625
TOMPG.EXE - included in rJPa MPx Encoder


