Ripping your CDs was never so easy thanks to CDex
August 14th, 2009 | Published on: Guides
If we are thinking of recording the content of a music CD in our computer we will need an application that allows us to do so. For example CDex, an application destined to rip CD that gives us the possibility of storing all our music in the hard drive.
Ripping your CDs was never so easy thanks to CDex
By its sound quality and reduced size, the MP3 has been set as the standard music format for all computer and portable devices. This reality also shows that music CDs, are now being obsolete before the functionality of the MP3. The problem we often have is how to convert one into the other.
The solution comes with the ripper, that is to say, an application able to read CD, DVD, HD DVD or Blue Ray in the reproduction format and record its content to the PC to edit, store, duplicate or create backup copies. We will now talk about CDex, a program that although does not stand out by its popularity or the amount of it options, it does it by the simplicity of its use.
When running the software, we recommend you to set it in your own language to avoid errors and complications. Go to “Options” and select the option “Languages”. From the drop-down menu select the language icon. We will then see how all the elements of the interface change.
Now we are ready to start converting. As we see on the image, CDex automatically recognizes the presence of an audio CD ready to be ripped in our reader and show us its tracks in detail. We can also specify on each track the name of the album, the artist, the genre and the year. To do so, fill in the boxes “Title”, “Artist”, “Genre” and “Year”. If we want to rename a track click with the mouse´s right button on it and select “Rename track”
We can now start to convert songs to the MP3 format, simply select the tracks to convert and click on “Extract CDs tracks to compressed format”, that is the second icon of the panel on the right. Another way of doing this faster is by selecting the tracks and then pressing the “F9” key. The delay of the extraction is determined by the size of the file.
We have finished! To see the location of our new MP3 files press the “F4” key. When the CDex set up window is opened, select the tab “File name”. In the box “Extracted Tracks” we will see the destiny of the files in our hard drive.
Ripping with CDex is really simple. We must only insert the CD we want to rip on the reader and the program will read it automatically. Then select the tracks you want to copy and press the F9 key so that the process starts.
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