AutoFLAC

AutoFLAC is a simple-to-use software application designed to help you back up and restore audio CD collections easily with the help of Exact Audio Copy (separately installed). It comes loaded with several useful settings that should be easy to figure out.

The installation procedure does not take a long time to finish. Apart from the AutoFLAC binary files, you can include or exclude FLAC binaries from the setup. What's more, you can add AutoFLAC binaries to your system path as well as integrate a shell extension into Windows Explorer for CUE sheets.

The interface is not particularly attractive, yet simple to navigate because it provides direct access to all available options.

Once the audio CD is inserted into the PC, you can select the tracks you want to extract (or all of them), optionally create a CUE sheet and write a log file with statistics such as errors (if any), enable ReplayGain to normalize volume across all tracks, specify a temporary directory, choose the encoder to use, as well as enable sound alerts on task completion and pick the preferred audio file.

As soon as you establish the output base, EAC, FLAC and Metaflac binaries, you can proceed with the audio grabbing procedure.

We have not come across any stability issues in our testing, since AutoFLAC did not hang, crash or pop up error messages. It has a good response time and carries out extraction jobs rapidly while remaining low on system resources. It gets the job done.