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- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
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fre:ac vs CDex Comments
- fre:ac is Free and Open Source
- fre:ac is Lightweight
CDex AlternativesCD Rippers & Audio Converters like CDex
CDex is described as 'CD-Ripper, extracting digital audio data from an Audio CD. The application supports many Audio encoders, including WAV, MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, VQF, Musepack, APE, and many others' and is a popular CD Ripper in the audio & music category. There are more than 25 alternatives to CDex for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and PortableApps.com apps. The best CDex alternative is fre:ac, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like CDex are Exact Audio Copy, X Lossless Decoder, dBpoweramp and EZ CD Audio Converter.
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48 Exact Audio Copy alternativesEAC is used to convert the tracks on standard audio CDs to wav files, which can then be transcoded into formats such as MP3, Ogg Vorbis, WavPack, and FLAC using external encoders.
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Exact Audio Copy vs CDex Comments
CDEx needs a special dll which it does not install: wnaspi32.dll, it has to be found elsewhere, so it is dangeorus...
- Exact Audio Copy is Free Personal and Proprietary
31 X Lossless Decoder alternativesX Lossless Decoder (XLD) is a tool for Mac OS X that is able to decode/convert/play various 'lossless' audio files. The supported audio files can be split into some tracks with cue sheet when decoding. It works on Mac OS X 10.3 and later. Supports: (Ogg) FLAC (.flac/.
79 dBpoweramp alternativesdBpoweramp contains a multitude of audio tools in one: CD Ripper, Music Converter, ID Tag Editor and Windows audio shell enhancements. Preloaded with mp3 & Wave codecs, practically every audio codec can be installed from Codec Central, as well as Utility Codecs (perform...
66 EZ CD Audio Converter alternativesEZ CD Audio Converter is the most comprehensive multi format audio converter and is extremely easy to use.
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72 soundKonverter alternativessoundKonverter is a frontend to various audio converters. The key features are: Audio conversion. En-/decoding. Replay Gain. CD ripping. It is extendable by plugins and supports many backends. It supports reading and writing tags for many formats, so the tags are preserved when c.
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- Free
- Open Source
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40 Audiograbber alternativesAudiograbber grabs digital audio from CDs, it can automatically normalize the music, delete silence from the start and/or end of tracks, and encode them to a variety of formats including MP3. It can also access freedb, an Internet compact disc database.
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- Freemium
- Proprietary
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- Discontinued
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- Windows
CUERipper is a utility for extracting digital audio from CDs, an open-source alternative to EAC.
34 Express Rip alternativesExpress Rip CD ripper can convert CD audio to mp3 or wav file formats. Express Rip lets you rip, convert, encode, and decode music and other audio tracks directly to files on your hard drive.
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Switch Audio and Mp3 Converter can convert mp3, wav, wma or 40 other audio file formats to the format of your choice in just 3 easy, simple steps. Just add the files you want to convert, select the format you want, and then click 'Convert'.
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- Freemium
- Proprietary
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- Android
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- Kindle Fire
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Works nicely for ripping my CD. CDex is killed by Win10 on my PC and I?did not find why.