Wiethoff's motivation for creating the program was that other such software only performed jitter correction while scratched CDs often produced distortion.

These include lossy ones such as MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, or lossless ones such as ALAC, FLAC, or WavPack using external encoders.

EAC is popular among audiophiles for its accuracy and ability to rip slightly damaged audio compact discs.

[citation needed] A licensed version of Exact Audio Copy called Rockstar Custom Tracks was released by Rockstar Games in collaboration with Andre Wiethoff for use on the PlayStation Portable release of Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories.

Wiethoff stated that he became "fed up with other audio grabbers"[7] that only do jitter correction while scratched CDs often produce distortions, and decided to develop his own.