http://www.cdex.n3.net/
CDex 1.50 (beta 3)

Changes since CDex 1.50 beta 2:

*Fixed problem: files were not always encoded with the correct encoder


CDex 1.50 (beta 2)

Changes since CDex 1.50 beta 1:

*CD Settings were not saved correctly in CDex beta 1
*Ripping to WAV file did not always work
*Improved Ogg Vorbis quality setting


CDex 1.50 (beta 1)

Changes since CDex 1.40:

*Added Auto Shutdown feature
*Added option to convert Artist / Track name fields
*Added feature to retain the original directory layout when converting from WAV<->MPEG, or MPEG->MPEG
*Switched to NSIS 1.96 installer
*Added encoder selection when recording from analog in
*CDText read option is now made configurable
*Added option to specify the Sample Rate of the MPEG file for the lame encoder
*Avoid duplicate entries in the playlist files
*Added additional short-cut keys for WAV->MPEG and MPEG->WAV option
*Support for Windows Media Encoder (WMA8) encoder
*Swithced to standard Ogg Vorbis SDK libraries
*Support for libfaac encoding library
*Switched back to standard winsock function (no need anymore for ws2_32.dll)
*Fixed bug in Lame encoder, it did under certain circumstance write an empty frame in front of the MPEG stream
*Check if input file = output file when doing MPEG->MPEG conversions
*Added lame VRB presets
*Added support for user defined profiles (presets)

The addition of user defined presets is a welcome feature,something I missed before.

Anyone manage to download this?

I'm getting a badly broken archive, no matter how I try.

# wget http://west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge...x_150b1_enu.zip
--19:12:09-- http://west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge...x_150b1_enu.zip => `cdex_150b1_enu.zip'
Connecting to west.dl.sourceforge.net:80... connected!
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

[...]

# md5sum *.zip

2edfa98022d6e86f7e20822f73d9db16 *cdex_150b1_eng.zip

Will try again later.

neither the exe and zip will open =(

archive corrupted

Something went wrong when releasing the cdex 1.50 beta files. I re-uploaded the files and they seem now to work again, so please try again

Yeah, it works now.

Here, at least.

Edit: Although there is some strange bug with Vorbis. It complains it can't find vorbisenc.dll, although it's in CDex dir.

can MPC be fully integrated into CDex (or EAC) ?

First explain "Fully Integrated" please.

Well it's not easy for me to explain (not english ) It could be like Ogg via a DLL... there would be a "Encode to MPC" button... titles, artist and all the rest wouldn't be lost during the ripping etc ...

Well, there's no DLL to encode to MPC. The encoder was never released as a DLL.

But you can encode files to MPC using CDex (using the "External Musepack Encoder" option), and apply ID3 tags. Hopefully, Faber will soon start supporting APE tags.

Regards;

Roberto.

Membrax: Until APE tags are supported natively by CDex, you can use the MPCencT utility as a "workaround" to be able to encode to MPC using APE tags.

http://www.inf.ufpr.br/~rja00/mpc.html

Follow the instructions in the text file included in the ZIP archive, the steps necessary to get it working are nicely described.

CU

Dominic

Thanks !
I'll try it as soon as i can (my exams can't wait lol)
And one more thing : I just love this forum

Me too

--
GCP

Is it just me or is something (ini-file?) borken.

Seems CD-Ex 1.50 won't accept/keep changes regarding the CD-ROM settings. I can't change from generic to Plextor and standard to paranoia and keep those settings. Not unless I edit the CDex.ini file manually.

i can confirm the problem with cd-rom settings.

- cdex 1.50 b1 crashes, when i try to choose "record from line-in" (win98se, sb-live)
- encoder-settings: it seems that the bitrate-settings (min/max) affect the lame-presets. as far as i remember, the old "hacked" lame_enc.dll was not affected by these settings.

suggestions...

1. the ogg quality slider is nice, but it's too short... can't land even close to the numbers i wanted... like 4.99. atleast make it a little longer so you can atleast get closer.

2. make a input box where you can simply type in the quality setting instead of using the slider... and to make it cooler... when you type in a number in the input box, make the slider move automaticly to that number...

3. when you have the slider on quality leval 0.0, it disables the slider.... but 0.0 is actually a quality setting. 0.0 is equal to 64kbps. subsequently, don't have that disable the slider. have a check box or something that enables or disables the slider.

that's it for now

someone can post cd-ex on another place please? the sourceforge links don't work again
thanks

forget it! i tried again and now it worked
sorry!

I think you'll find after moving the slider that you can use the left and right arrow on your keyboard to fine tune it.

Besides EAC, I always had Cdex installed on my machine.
Cdex is a very good app and easy to use.
Its great to generate mp3 on the fly(w/ Lame.dll) and all
perfect tagged!
I think it needs improvements on its standard ripping routines.
Can it generates a .LOG like EAC?(showing where errors ocurred)
Everything else is perfect.
I still found the same ripping problems like the previous versions.
Using brand new CD's, some tracks shows skips.
Even re-ripping to wav dont solve the problem.
I had to do the job using EAC(secure).

LIF

I (hopefully) addressed all the problems that have surfaced in CDex 1.50 beta. In addition, I changed the way to set the Ogg Vorbis quality (now you should be able to select quality zero, and changed the control to a scroll bar for better control. The patch can be downloaded form the CDex web page using the following link:

http://www.cdex.n3.net/cdex_150b1p1.zip
Keep in mind, this patch file only contains the exe, so you have to replace the CDex.exe that is distributed with CDex 1.50 b1.

Just replaced the executable. Now I got many empty messageboxes (Yellow excl. triangle + OK-button) as I entered "Options", and I also get them when changing encoder, and the encoder options does not appear.

Renamed CDex.ini -- same thing. I think something is badly b0rken :-)

Yup. Me too. Cute yellow triangles.

BTW. Thanks for a nifty program Mr. Faber.

Same thing happening here.

And I keep having problems about "vorbisenc.dll not found", although the dll is in CDex's dir.

empty boxes confirmed here too. the patch is badly broken. :confused:

awww... look at all those cute yellow triangles

Beta2 is available.

I can only find Beta 1 links :confused:

Edit; No worries,I just modified the download link to http://telia.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforg...x_150b2_enu.exe

Download links are there now

That still points to beta 1

I just can't download that file!

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.p...elease_id=88266

It just won't work (that was the case with the beta 1 files, as well)... :confused:

Edit: Oops, I overlooked Tinribs' link. Where did you get that one from?

Mirrors:

http://web.sercomtel.com.br/slaphappy/cdex...x_150b2_enu.exe
http://web.sercomtel.com.br/slaphappy/cdex...x_150b2_enu.zip

Elementary my dear Volcano Just relied on it being in the same directory,just changed the name

Yeah I realise that, but I actually meant: Where did you get the link "telia.dl.sourceforge.net/..." in the first place?

I didn't see it on any of the download pages because the Sourceforge mirror selection page wouldn't pop up when I tried yesterday, so forget it

<enough off-topic posts from me in this thread>

Anybody notice, the new CDEX comes with LAME Version 1.29, Engine 3.93? Haven't seen that mentioned on any of the usual Lame download sites yet.

on mitioks site there are 3.93 versions for some days now

Yes... some of them with seriously broken VBR. The devs are currently discussing if they should revert some changes back to a previous, usable version.

There are no stable versions of 3.93 on mitioks site, but I did find one developer that had an alpha version. You would think CDEX would have a pretty good in-road for getting the latest LAME stable version. Anybody know where they got their 3.93?

cdex 3.93 versions are alpha ones too

yea, haha, I know they are Alpha versions. I'm just curious that the new CDEX has the 3.93 Lame, but nobody is talking about it. Usually CDEX only puts the newest, most stable version of Lame in their releases. Doesn't really matter, just seems a little odd.

newest is correct but most stable isn't

And why did you search for a stable 3.93 version if you knew that it was in alpha stage

I don't ever recall seeing a new stable version of Lame, that wasn't called Alpha. Have you? So, you don't think because CDEX included 3.93 Alpha 2 in their new release, that it is stable? Ok. that was my question to start? This seems to be going round and round, without anybody offering any helpful advice. If nobody knows if 3.93 Alpha 2 is considered stable, then I have a little e-mail to send to CDEX. The CDEX site, says it fixed a flaw in Lame, hence Alpha 2. :confused:

yeah, version 3.91 and 3.92

Umm, what? Alphas have never been considered stable. Alphas are often buggy,buggy, buggy...
No, alpha2 is considered very very far from stable. Infact as CiTay already told, they had to go back in builds, because there were so serious bugs that it was considered better to go back than continue.

I really don't understand these people using alpha software in their 3rd party software. Many times Lame alphas, Vorbis alphas etc. are horribly broken.

I've had all sorts of problems with all kinds of various alpha software,my advice is always wait for a full stable release,encoders are no different.

Ok, I am learning. So, to end this, are you all suggesting when CDEX does a new release, that we should not use the included LAME encoder, if it is Alpha? If that's true, since I always D/L the recent CDEX, I have been using buggy encoders forever. That's pretty strange, since my mp3's sound great.

Yeah, you shouldn't ever use Lame/Vorbis alpha encoder for anything else than testing. It can be that alpha is perfectly ok, but it can be also horribly broken.

MPC alphas (Frank's encoders) seem to be quite ok, probably because there's only one people working on them, and he (hopefully) lists every larger change which may affect quality...

well, there is no official *release* of a LAME alpha version. OK, everyone can check out the work in progress from CVS and make the best out of it. The alphas at Dmitry's site are intended for testing purposes only. If Frank *releases* an alpha of his MPC snapshort, I'm quite sure he does not take some arbitrary snapshot of his sources, but something he thinks that works.

Now I am even more confused. I checked the CDEX version 1.40 release, and it contains the LAME 1.27 Eng. 3.92 Alpha 1. And then I checked several other CDEX releases, mostly beta, and I can't find ONE, that doesn't contain an Alpha designated LAME encoder. So, even with a CDEX major release, you still get an Alpha Lame encoder. What the phuck does this all mean to the average mp3 encoding user? You think the average CDEX user even knows what that means? I doubt it, they download CDEX and start ripping/encoding. That's why I said, I've never seen a stable release (via CDEX) with anything BUT, an Alpha designated Lame encoder. But then again, I'm way off base, according to you guys. If it's Alpha, then it's not stable. Who's on first, no, who's on second, what is on first.... :confused: