What's new

CDex 1.30 beta 1 (see download page) 
CDex source code is now available, see Open Source page for more details. 
CDex 1.30, what is new CDex 1.30 beta 1

Avoid double dot when converting MP3 file back to WAV files 
Fixed initialization problem in MPGLib which could produce artifacts 
Fixed problem in ripping library that the file size was depending on Read Overlap parameter 
Added logo to About box 
Added initial support for CD-Text 
Added initial support for CDDB submission 
Added audible beep when ripping/converting is completed 
ASPI retries parameter was not persistant, is fixed now 
ID3 V1.1 support 
Comment field of ID3 tag can be filled out in config dialog box 
Windows 2000 Issues
Many people have problems running CDex with the Windows 2000 operation system. However, you have to make sure that you have installed the proper ASPI drivers that are supported under Win2K. You might try to the to install the following wnaspi32.zip file, some ppl have succesfully used it in conjunction with CDex.

What is CDex?
CDex is a freeware application, which is able to extract audio tracks from a CD-ROM digitally, and save those files to disk as either regular WAV file or MP3 files.

Why use CDex?
Well CDex can extract the data directly from an Audio CD, which is generally called an Audio CD Ripper or a CDDA utility. Of course you can do that also by recording through your sound-card However, recording by sampling the signal with your sound card implies that the signal is first has to be converted to an analog signal by the CD-ROM, which is fed into the sound-card and digitized by the sound-card. In practically all situation the quality of the recording will be deteriorated (unless you have a CD-ROM that has a digital output of course). CDex on the other hand, is reading the digital audio data directly from the disc, which can be stored in either a WAV file or a MPEG (MP2 or MP3) sound file.