I'm trying to set up CDex 1.51 to encode to FLAC, but I'm having problems with the commandline. I couldn't find a specific commandline for CDex, so I tried a couple EAC commandlines I found here @ HA, but neither worked. I'm new to encoding in FLAC, and so far I haven't been able to find an answer here, or CDex pages, or FLAC pages...

If anyone has a known working commandline for CDex 1.5x, please share it. Also, are there any special options that need configured in CDex? I have the current 1.1.0k FLAC distro. TIA.

Try these settings, they work for me!

CDex Configuration | Encoder
Encoder = External Encoder
Hide Dos box window = X
On The Fly encoding = X
Send WAV header to stdin = X
Parameter string =


This encodes to FLAC "On The Fly" with Quality-8.

Strange, I tried your string yesterday and it didn't work, but today it is. A couple more questions:

- What about tagging? CDex is creating tags when I make MPC/Ogg/MP3 encodes, but didn't create tags for FLAC. Is it possible? I know FLAC uses Vorbis comments, but there doesn't seem to be any option in CDex for creating them, only ID3 tags.

- There is a 2nd FLAC file created when I rip, one is trackname.flac, the other is trackname.flac.flac. The track with flac.flac is only 1KB, the other is the full encoded audio file. ???

Strange, because the string is working as intended on my system.
Fully tagged and ready for use!

I really don`t know what to suggest.

Well, strangely enough, now tagging is working. But I still get an extra .flac file for each track that is 1KB in size. If I watch the output folder while the rip is proceeding, I see first a temp.flac file. Then immediately after the encoding is finished, I get two files, trackname.flac and trackname.flac.flac.

Any CDex devs around??? It will be kinda annoying to have to delete all those 1KB files after a mass ripping session...

The only thing I can suggest is to search the CDex forums!
I am pretty sure I have seen this problem before, but I can not find the case now..

what does the %2 do?