cdex
 

http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdexos/

your thoughts? love/hate? why?

nice ripper. fairly straight forward and simple to use

but imho EAC is better

Yeah EAC is the best ripper out right now. But it is also a little harder to use and alot slower "which is good"

CDEX is a bit easier to use but I find it more use for encoding than ripping as CDEX still lacks behind EAC for error correction on damaged CD's. CDEX is probably the best all in one ripper/encoder out there right now.

When using CDEX set your thread priority to low "one down from default" maybe lower if you have a slower system. Otherwise you may get errors from open programs and other things during extraction.

i have modem, hence, slow. but never had one problem with cdex. at all. rips excellent. easy, straightforward and just plain great.

of course, our schmook, the undisputed tech head, for all your tech questions and new products..............heed the man!!!!!!!!!!!!!:ND: :love:

Like schmooky said, nice ripper..Easy to use.

me? tech head?? :N:........ i wish

I never had a problem with it, but I make sure to shut down all running programs, like the antivirus and anything else I have before ripping to mp3.

Error correction? I would just dl the song if it could not correct after a second pass on a "funky" track.

Sounds good as long as that song is out there:BL: I had a rare cd once that was scratched all to hell. I had a heck of a time finding half the tracks but still did not get all of them. As a matter of fact I could not even find this CD in stores or Online anywhere. I tried every ripper I could find and all of them failed at getting me a error free copy except EAC. It took almost 4hrs but EAC did it and earned my trust in it ever since:tu:

There are very few secure rippers out there that can correct errors from scratched cd's.