iPod VideoConstructor

The great variety of formats has brought a problem to most users. We also have devices that work with a specific format, reason why we need to have additional software like iPod VideoConstructor.

To take full advantage of the iPod and its benefits, we need to have an incredible amount of software according to the functions this device has. iPod VideoConstructor is one of them, since it allows us to carry out different actions with video files, offering the possibility of converting format to play them in an iPod, rip any DVD to the computer and capture videos from a camera or a TV tuner.

An interesting option of iPod VideoConstructor is that has support to convert everything or just part of any video, offering the possibility of getting rid of those part we do not want. Another advantage that is worth mention is the “Preview” option that allow us to watch the video before converting it, to verify how it will be according to the modifications we have made regarding the audio and video quality. It is also important to mention that iPod VideoConstructor has support for most of the popular video formats like AVI, DIVX, XVID, MP4, MPG, and many more.

iPod VideoConstructor has a non original interface although it is very simple and practical, features “Rewind” and “Forward” buttons that makes their use easy, and a direct access to the different elements of the program in a handy drop-down menu. We can also access all these options easily from the left part of the screen, where we found a pleasant module with detailed options. The searcher stands out by its simplicity, through it, we can look for files through out our computer in the search for files we want to convert without the need of closing the software and look it on Windows.

The length of the conversion process might vary from computer to computer, but iPod VideoConstructor consumes very few resources and processes data fast, something that is positive in comparison to other converters. In spite of this, we cannot let mention the annoying that can be the advertisements published on its interface.

As we could see, iPod VideoConstructor is a really interesting software that stands out by its capacity to carry out these three important actions regarding video: converting formats, ripping, and capturing videos. All things considered, we can say that this application is an interesting option when looking for a software that allows converting and ripping your videos.

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.

In order to enable users to copy CD audio tracks to the hard driver, there are numerous converters or CD audio rippers. In this case, we will review CDex, one of the most popular audio CDs ripper and converter.

As soon as the installation wizard finishes, a simple medium-size interface will display the program window. In this way, CDex is provides and extremely user-friendly interface enabling the user to rip audio CDs quickly and easily

CDex features an automatic track CD reader which connects to CDBA, an internet CD database that provides information about albums, artists and songs about the audio tracks you extracted.

CDex also includes an embedded audio player to listen to CDs as well as to check the tracks we extracted. In addition, WAV and MP3 files on the hard drive can be converted to a Compressed Audio File (and visa versa). CDex also supports many audio file tag formats like the ID3V1 and ID3V2 tags, which can be automatically inserted as part of the ripping process. Last but not least, CDex includes an analog sound recorder to register our own sounds.

As regarding ripping features, CDex converts audio tracks –either full tracks or segments- to WAV and MP3 formats. All conversion are done quickly and with just a few clicks, but yet again CDex formats shortage is still an issue since there other massive audio formats out there. Still, CDex features Multilanguage support while other converters may not.

All in all, CDex presents itself as an easy-to-use and efficient converter when it comes to extracting MP3 and WAV files from audio CDs quickly and easily.