CDex vs Audiograbber

[iparout]

Hi all.

I would like to know which of the two programs mentioned above is a better audio extractor as far as quality is concerned...

Thanks in advance.

[rjamorim]

Well, I can only see advantages in CDex (maybe because I'm a CDex Dev ;) )

-CDex is free
-CDex has CD Paranoia mode - better for error detection and correction in scratched CDs
-CDex is open source
-Supports several output formats (MP3, Wave, Vorbis, MPC, AAC, VQF, WMA...)
-Supports Winamp input plugins for audio conversion
-...

Regards;

Roberto.

[Kyo]

Other Prog. Exact Audio Copy (The name says all)

[DSPguru]

Originally posted by rjamorim
Well, I can only see advantages in CDex (maybe because I'm a CDex Dev ;) )same here ;)

[stargazer]

Originally posted by Kyo
Other Prog. Exact Audio Copy (The name says all)

I have both programs installed (EAC and CDex) and I've compared many, many wav files ripped from clean, dirty, scratched (but not completely destroyed :)) CDs first with EAC (security mode), then with CDex(full paranoia), and then I compared it with FC (it's a small DOS utility which does binary bit-to-bit compare) - files was _always_ the same - no differences found.
In fact, there was only one difference - CDex is much faster (almost twice on my LTD-163).

So, my conclusion is - they produce same quality, but CDex produce it faster! :)

CDex is my choice (although, I would like to see a "CD image creation [wav/cue]" option)

[ookzDVD]

The oscar goes to CDex ;)
lots of audio formats support and it's free!

[JohnMK]

You're rushing to judgment ookzDVD. How can you make such a decision without complete knowledge?

You can't compare speed of ExactAudioCopy and CDex without describing which exact ripping methods you were employing (accurate stream, disable audio caching, C2, etc.). And anyway, people who really care about their audio quality don't care anything for speed. EAC was started with the intention of being able to rip CDs exactly perfectly from the first day it was written. Its ability to do so still surpasses CDex in a few ways, such as the ability to perform linear interpolation on scratched CDs, amongst others. I will say this positively about CDex too -- it has improved markedly over the past few years and I now wouldn't hesitate to accept a CDex rip, if I knew the person who ripped it did so securely and didn't rip with the express intention of getting a result in under 10 nanoseconds.

[ookzDVD]

@JohnMK,

I just answer the original post :

CDex vs Audiograbber


Sure, EAC is different story ;)

[JohnMK]

Understood. Yours was a little bit less clear, given the context of the few preceeding posts. DSPGuru meant the same thing as you . . . which is: don't use Audiograbber. :D

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