We have published a lot of great CD & DVD ripping software earlier. CDex is another popular open source & free CD ripper that has close to 40 million users!

CDex can extract the data directly (digital) from an Audio CD, which is generally called a CD Ripper or a CDDA utility. The output 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.

In addition to ripping audio files on CDs, WAV 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.

The current version of CDex audio CD ripping software runs only on Windows based computers (including Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP & the Windows Vista).

The creators of CDex is also working to release a multiplatform portable version of CDex to work on Unix & Apple Mac.

CDex incorporates most of the popular encoders – MP3 encoder, internal MP2 encoder, APE lossless audio format, Ogg Vorbis encoder, NTT VQF encoder, FAAC encoder & the Windows WMA8 encoder.

CDex is released under GPL, which means that you can use it free for personal & commercial use. You can download CDex CD Audio Ripping Software free.

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