Hi everyone. I need a some help with CDex. Yes, I know EAC is better but I occasionally get CDs that EAC takes forever to rip and CDex is the next best thing. On to the question...

How do I configure an external encoder with CDex? The help file gives these steps:

1. browse to the encoder.
2. put in the parameter string. the basic string is "%1 %2" which is "inputfile.wav outputfile.mp3". This is like "%s %d" in EAC.
3. change the extension to mp3 or mpc or whatever.
4. I leave the options hide dos box, on the fly encoding, and send wav header to stdin unchecked.

simple enough. but i've tried LAME and mppenc and and I can't get it to work. After CDex rips the wave file, the black encoder window pops up then disappears immediately. What am I doing wrong?

Your help will be very much appreciated.

I recommend using the version of LAME 3.97 that has the DLL configured with INI setup. It works perfectly with CDex.

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....amp;hl=CDex+dll

you mean this http://www.rarewares.org/files/mp3/lameexe3.97_MOD.zip ?

i was using it for a while at -V 5 until recently when a cd i ripped came out at an average of 80 kbps. upon checking the lame settings in cdex, i found out someone had picked mono instead of jstereo. (im using a shared computer.) until then i believed that whatever settings you picked in that tab, cdex would ignore it in favor of the ini file. guess i was wrong.

now i just want to use same exe i use with eac.

About EAC:
EAC takes a very long time to rip a copy protected CD.

DVD43
http://www.dvd43.com
DVD43 is a free decrypter.
Works in the background.

If the CD is copy protected it most probably would be the same with CDex

Your EAC speed issue is probably something else.



try EAC with Adaptec ASPI layer 4.71.2
http://force_aspi_18.w.interia.pl/

I use this and it always works for me.

i think the problem with some cds i get is that they have too many scratches. i have aspi installed and working fine.

I find this irrelavent to the question that was asked




It would just be easiest to use encoder DLL instead.

yes it's the easiest but i don't want to be limited to the lame dll. i also use itunesencode and nero digital audio on a regular basis.

This is how you configure CDex to work with the regular lame.exe:

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HotshotGG, it is irrelavent!
Worth to mention.

Helped a user at another forum before, he ripped a copy protected CD in 2 hours but with errors
With DVD43 it got ripped as normal CD.



twostar, try another mode in EAC?