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Audio / Rippers
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Description of CDex
CDex can extract the data directly from an Audio CD, which is generally called an Audio CD Ripper or a CDDA utility. Of course you can do that also by recording through your sound-card However, recording by sampling the signal with your sound card implies that the signal is first has to be converted to an analog signal by the CD-ROM, which is fed into the sound-card and digitized by the sound-card. In practically all situation the quality of the recording will be deteriorated (unless you have a CD-ROM that has a digital output of course). CDex on the other hand, is reading the digital audio data directly from the disc, which can be stored in either a WAV file or a MPEG (MP2 or MP3) sound file.
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| By po (11/03/2001) |
| I've never had problems with CDex, even in earlier betas, but since Adaptec/Roxio's Windows XP update for Easy CD Creator 5 Platinum, I can't seem to run ANY CD program other than it. I hope they release a fix, or CDex is updated or something of that nature... I can't imagine how many programs are having the same problem because of the update. |
| By busta (10/18/2001) |
| Yeah, LAME is still under major development and is getting better and better at quite a fast rate. For the people using AudioCatalyst/RealJukebox please for the love of humanity stop and switch to CDex at least for ripping/encoding. Choose the encoding option R3MIX and you'll get far better audio quality then anything that AudioCatalyst or RealJukebox can do.
If you really want the highest sound quality in a lossy audio compression format I'd highly suggest MPC (formerly MP+,MPplus). That is the encoder to beat. CDex has the option to use the MPC encoder. If you want to look for it, at this moment the encoder's name is mppenc.exe, and as a guess it might be changing to mpcenc.exe in the weeks ahead.
For low bitrate encoding I'd suggest trying OGG (Vorbis), as it seems to be excellent for such applications. It's included with CDex, so no additional downloading, except maybe a Winamp plugin which might actually be included with Winamp by now. |
| By jashley21 (08/12/2001) |
| Mainly because it is free.But also because it converts mp3to wav and visa-a-versa. |
| By jrepin (07/29/2001) |
| I agree. LAME is much better then other encoders for MP3. But it's sad that so much users use bad encoders like Xing. |
| By busta (03/29/2001) |
| I haven't had any crashing problems with any Cdex version released in the last 3 months. I really wish more people would use Cdex with its LAME MP3 encoder rather then lousy Music Match/Real Jukebox/Xing. Great when using 160-196 or higher VBRs, clearly superior in most cases to those I've mentioned earlier while keeping a reasonable file size. Want more specific info check out www.r3mix.net, they're really serious when it comes to MP3 encoding techniques. |
| By Shark (01/30/2001) |
| Beta 8 kept crashing.
Beta 7 existed for about a week.
Beta 6 is what I've had to use.
Hopefully this one fixes things. |
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| Author: |
Albert L. Faber |
| License: |
Freeware |
| File Size: |
2.0 MB |
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119 |
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