CDex
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CDex version 1.77 running on Windows 10 Technical Preview
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| Developer(s) | Georgy Berdyshev |
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| Initial release | 2000 |
| Stable release | 1.81 / April 22, 2016 |
| Written in | C, C++, Python |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
| Type | CD ripper |
| License | GPL (free software) |
| Website | cdex |
CDex is a free software for Digital Audio Extraction from Audio CD (a so-called CD ripper) and audio format conversion for Microsoft Windows. It converts CDDA tracks from a CD to standard computer sound files, such as WAV, MP3, or Ogg Vorbis. Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL), CDex is free software. It is developed and maintained by Georgy Berdyshev. It was originally written by Albert L. Faber.
Features[edit]
CDex is able to convert CD audio into several formats including WAV, Vorbis, MP3 (using the LAME encoder), VQF, Musepack, APE, and many others. As of version 1.70b2 FLAC encoding is native, but for version 1.51 FLAC[1] and other codecs can be used by using an external encoder. For convenience, it supports CD-Text to allow ripped tracks, with reduced user effort, to have the names of songs, artists and albums. It can also automatically identify (most) inserted audio CDs and look up the metadata by means of an online database (freedb) for automatic tagging, naming and sorting of ripped files.[2] It also includes cdparanoia for robust CD reading. CDex is considered to be very configurable and relatively easy to use.
History[edit]
In 2000, at the start of the beta phase for version 1.30, CDex was turned into a free software project (cdexos: CDex Open Source) and hosted on SourceForge.net.[3] In January 2006, the CDex homepage requested a new project manager and developer, implying that Albert L. Faber had abandoned development of CDex. On 2006-06-05, CDex 1.70 Beta 1 was released via the SourceForge.net website. It was the first official update to the program in almost three years, with CDex 1.70 Beta 2 following soon after on 2006-06-23. On 2009-11-18 CDex 1.70 Beta 4 was released. CDex 1.70 Final was released on 2014-06-29 featuring a Unicode and Multibyte version.
On June 30, 2007, just one day after the release of the GPLv3, the license of CDex was updated. However, the last version for which source code was made available is 1.70 Beta 2, and the SourceForge project appears to have been shut down in July 2015, shortly after the release of version 1.79.
From version 1.76 the installer includes the ad-ware OpenCandy.
Potential risk[edit]
The recent reincarnation of CDex has seen a number of sponsored programs being automatically selected during installation with little information about their nature. Scan results suggest there may be a substantial risk to any system these are install on[4] along with the source code no longer being publicly accessible, preventing independent code review.
References[edit]
- ^ "Using CDex with Flac hints". Pfarrell.com. Retrieved 2010-05-28.
- ^ Christian Brochec: Audacity 2: Enregistrez, montez, mixez. 2nd edition, Pearson Education France, 2012, ISBN 978-2-7440-9402-6, chapter: CD, section: Extraction audio aved CDex (Windows), page 96
- ^ Archived March 4, 2000, at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ "beware of adware/malware". alternativeto.net. Retrieved 2015-11-28.
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