When I was looking at the open-source community SourceForge I saw that the number one project was CDex. I just downloaded it, and it's a very nice piece of software for those who want to rip their CD's.
What is CDex? |
CDex is a freeware application, which is able to extract audio tracks from a CD-ROM digitally, and save those files to disk as either regular WAV file or MP3 files.
Why use CDex?
Well 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.
Feature list:
- Direct recording of multiple tracks
- Read track information from cdplayer.ini file
- Read track information from local/remote CDDB
- Jitter correction
- Indicates track progress and jitter control
- Normalization of audio signal
- Supports multiple drives
- Conversion of external WAV files
- Support for M3U and PLS play list files
- Best of all, it's free
Source: Sourceforge.net
