CDex can extract the data directly (digital) from an Audio CD, which is generally called a CD Ripper or a CDDA utility. The resulting audio file can be a plain WAV file (useful for making compilation audio CDs) or the ripped audio data can be compressed using an audio encoder such as MP3, FLAC, AAC, WMA or OGG.
Supported encoders:
- Lame MP3 encoder 3.99.5 - MPEG Audio Layer III (.mp3)
- FLAC encoder 1.31 - Free Lossless Audio Codec (.flac)
- Ogg Vorbis encoder - Ogg 1.3.2 and Vorbis 1.3.4 (.ogg .oga)
- Monkey's Audio encoder - Lossless Audio(.ape)
- Microsoft WMA encoder - Windows Media Audio (.wma)
- Internal MP2 encoder - MPEG Audio Layer 2 (.mp2)
- Yamaha VQF encoder - TwinVQ (.vqf)
- Astrid / Quartex AAC encoder
- Psytel AAC encoder
- External Xing encoder
- WAV output encoder
- FAAC encoder - Freeware Advanced Audio Coder, etc.
A versatile tool to convert your DVD/Blu-ray discs into Apple-compatible media.
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1) Experimental Hybrid version 1.70 beta 4 (recommended). = File version: 1.70.4 (I have this one).
2) Unicode version (Win 7 / Vista / 2003 / XP / 2000 /NT) - beta 2, 2009 update. = File version probably: 1.70.4.2009 (now reported as latest version in software informer).
3) Non-Unicode version (Win 95 / NT / 98 / ME). - beta 2, 2009 update. = File version unknown to me.
So versions 1.70.4 (hybrid) and 1.70.4.2009 (unicode) are basicly both the same (and latest) beta program versions.