Good CD ripper proggie??

[Paul Mather]

On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 14:41 -0500, E F wrote:
> Frankly I use it in 'out of the box' mode, but it does allow you to set a
> drive off set and select some ripping modes including using the
> paranoia.library.
>
> D/L it and take it a look, it's not big and the price is right.
>
> Good Luck.
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> On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 14:25:10 -0500, Paul Mather <paul at GROMIT.DLIB.VT.EDU>
> wrote:
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> > PS: Personally, I normally use cdparanoia because I don't run Windows.

I think you might have overlooked the above PS. :-)  I noticed this is
stated on the CDex Web page: Operating System: All 32-bit MS Windows
(95/98/NT/2000/XP)

So, I don't think it'd be much practical use for *me* to try it out.  (I
use cdparanoia for DAE, or something like abcde if I want to do batch
conversion/tagging.) :-)

I do remember using CDex many many years ago, but switched to EAC when
using Windows.  By what you say, they have improved the feature set and
DAE since then.

Looking at the feature requests on the CDex site, it doesn't appear to
support converting to lossless formats like SHN or FLAC (though you can
always go CD > WAV, WAV > SHN/FLAC using different software, I suppose).
DBpowerAMP has plugins for those, making direct conversion very easy
indeed.  (It also has many plugins for other audio formats, like MP3,
OGG, etc.)

Cheers,

Paul.
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